Cheaters

Today I have to write a letter for two students, both foreign, who have cheated by lifting passages from internet sources and deploying them, like strips of sod laid into a lawn, to make a faux-paper.

The difference between a faux paper and a real paper, between turfed and grown lawns, is, without the structural differentiation of printing-press text, going to be harder and harder to defend, fortify, define, maintain . . .

Are they less guilty or more guilty in the years to come? Is this a sensible question?