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Borrowing Material from Electronic Documents

In recent years, the proliferation of electronic documents and information sources has become an issue of increasing importance for student writing and research. CD-ROMs, on-line journals and encyclopedias, e-mail discussion lists, and Web sites of all sorts have made available a wealth of information to researchers. Caution must be exercised, however, to avoid plagiarizing material from these highly accessible sources.