Non-Native University Students' Perception of Plagiarism

Autor/inn/en	Ahmad, Ummul Khair; Mansourizadeh, Kobra; Ai, Grace Koh Ming
Titel	Non-Native University Students' Perception of Plagiarism
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 3 (2012) 1, S.39-48 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Graduate Students; Plagiarism; Foreign Students; Student Attitudes; Misconceptions; Questionnaires; Malaysia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Plagiat; Schülerverhalten; Missverständnis; Fragebogen
Abstract	Plagiarism is a complex issue especially among non-native students and it has received a lot of attention from researchers and scholars of academic writing. Some scholars attribute this problem to cultural perceptions and different attitudes toward texts. This study evaluates student perception of different aspects of plagiarism. A small group of postgraduate students in a Malaysian university were asked to categorize ten cases of plagiarism instances. They were also asked to identify plagiarized paraphrased versions of five excerpts of different source texts provided. The findings showed that students had misconceptions about different aspect of plagiarism including citation conventions, collusion, using another writer's idea, and style of writing. Further analysis has shown that students were aware that plagiarism is wrong but they could not correctly identify the multiple forms in which plagiarism could happen. These findings indicate that students need to be taught and exposed to various forms and layers of plagiarism so that they would know how best to avoid it in their own writing. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01