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Trust on Internet is questioned.


Trust is hard to come by when it comes to gleaning Harvesting for free distribution to the needy, or for donation to a nonprofit organization for ultimate distribution to the needy, an agricultural crop that has been donated by the owner.  information off the Internet, according to according to
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 a recent survey of educators.

More than 400 secondary school educators participated in the survey, which was conducted by Questia Media Inc., an online educational research resource.

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 trusted, reliable information in their online research, although most want them to do such research, is that there is simply too much information on the Internet.

But 84 percent say they trust previously published journals and newspaper and magazine articles, while 86 percent trust online library sites. On the other hand, less than 20 percent trust open source Web sites such as Wikipedia. And 64 percent of educators worry about cheating and plagiarism Using ideas, plots, text and other intellectual property developed by someone else while claiming it is your original work. . www.questia.com
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Title Annotation:Update: NEWS, STATS AND FAST FACTS
Author:Pascopella, Angela
Publication:District Administration
Date:Nov 1, 2006
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