Plagiarism and attribution: an academic literacies approach?

In many Higher Education courses in the UK the ability to write extended academic prose is central to assessment and therefore to student success. One aspect of academic writing which students struggle with is incorporating the work and ideas of others, using appropriate attribution conventi...

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Autor principal:	Anna Eva Magyar
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Publicado:	Association for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE) 2012
Materias:	plagiarism writing development academic literacues Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:da0a55802ee14056a5e74a4825b679f62021-11-29T14:04:09ZPlagiarism and attribution: an academic literacies approach?10.47408/jldhe.v0i4.1411759-667Xhttps://doaj.org/article/da0a55802ee14056a5e74a4825b679f62012-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://repl.gianfj.com/index.php/jldhe/article/view/141https://doaj.org/toc/1759-667X In many Higher Education courses in the UK the ability to write extended academic prose is central to assessment and therefore to student success. One aspect of academic writing which students struggle with is incorporating the work and ideas of others, using appropriate attribution conventions. This can lead them to fall foul of ÃÂ institutionsÃ¢â¬â¢ plagiarism policies. Advice on plagiarism often consists of discussions around what is or is not plagiaristic behaviour while advice on attribution has tended to focus on referencing. This paper explores what an academic literacies approach to plagiarism might look like. It discusses and illustrates how an academic literacies approach was used in the design, analysis and application of a small-scale ethnographic research which set out to explore international postgraduate students' understandings of and questions about plagiarism across the disciplines in one UK university. The intention of the research was to use the findings in developing more culturally and context sensitive explanations of our attribution practices.ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ Anna Eva MagyarAssociation for Learning Development in Higher Education (ALDinHE)articleplagiarismwriting developmentacademic literacuesTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENJournal of Learning Development in Higher Education, Iss 4 (2012)
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description	In many Higher Education courses in the UK the ability to write extended academic prose is central to assessment and therefore to student success. One aspect of academic writing which students struggle with is incorporating the work and ideas of others, using appropriate attribution conventions. This can lead them to fall foul of ÃÂ institutionsÃ¢â¬â¢ plagiarism policies. Advice on plagiarism often consists of discussions around what is or is not plagiaristic behaviour while advice on attribution has tended to focus on referencing. This paper explores what an academic literacies approach to plagiarism might look like. It discusses and illustrates how an academic literacies approach was used in the design, analysis and application of a small-scale ethnographic research which set out to explore international postgraduate students' understandings of and questions about plagiarism across the disciplines in one UK university. The intention of the research was to use the findings in developing more culturally and context sensitive explanations of our attribution practices.ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ
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