"Plagiarism Lines Blur" by Trip Gabriel - Précis

In his article, "Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age", Trip Gabriel argues that with today's technology, students gather information from other sources without knowing that they are committing the act of plagiarism; but it is more of an act of borrowing ideas such as modern television and music does today.  Gabriel begins the article by explaining incidents involving students leaving the purple shade copied from a website, copying and pasting from Wikipedia articles, as well as a German student who had a best-selling novel that lifted passages from other material.  The authors purpose is to show examples of how having access to any intellectual material obtained legally or illegally is becoming common action for young people, in order to portray the idea that students unknowingly plagiarize material from others due to a decline in authenticity; only being attributed to the technology of today.  Gabriel's main audience would be the young audience that is specified in the article; due to his tone and presentation being casual, and explaining the certain aspects of todays technology that encourage young people to 'steal' intellectual property - which would give young readers the impression that he understands why they do so.