In today's world it is so easy to do plagiarism even if you don't mean to. There is so much information at your fingertips it can be easy to forget to cite a source. However there is and always will be a problem with students claiming others works to be their own because they don't want to take the time to do it themselves.
As a teacher I want to be able to know my students work is their own because grading the work done by someone else means your student hasn't learned it. There are always the options of cutting and pasting parts of papers into a search tool online and seeing if the work comes up as someone else. There is also a time tested way of knowing your students work. If something seems off about a paper or assignment... it is most likely because it is.
Ways to fight it off might be to do portions of the assignments in class and trying incorporate tasks into the papers or projects that could not be accomplished unless there is an understanding from the student.
Overall this subject is such a taboo in my opinion because everyone knows it happens but no body wants to admit that it does. And even worse, no one wants to accuse a student only to find out they were wrong about it.
I think what a teacher needs to do is just be aware of how easy it might be to fool them and to always be on guard.
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