Today's college students, thanks to technology, have many advantages that previous generations of students could never have dreamed of. In the past, students in need of research spent many hours in the library browsing books and watching old movies to gather information for academic papers and projects. In 2014 things are very different, students now have the World Wide Web and instant access to more information than any library could ever contain. However, this bottomless well of information has led not to a new problem, but to a rapidly growing one for today's college students: academic dishonesty. When it comes to academic honesty it seems that the lines are blurred and many scholars even seem to consider it a gray area. To understand why academic dishonesty is such a widespread problem we must first understand that there are two types of students who plagiarize and cheat. on assignments. The first group is what you would expect, these are students who intentionally cheat on tests or plagiarize and mistakenly claim the work as their own. The next category of students is tha...