Cultures in Contact in Academic Writing: Students&#x02019; Perceptions of Plagiarism

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Asian Journal of English Language Teaching ›› 2000, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (1) : 91-114. DOI: 10.65961/AJELT-2000-1-005

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Cultures in Contact in Academic Writing: Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism

Antonia Chandrasegaran

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This paper reports findings from an investigation of a group of Singaporean students’ understanding of plagiarism. The investigation sought to discover if the students were able to recognise as plagiarism unacknowledged borrowing from sources in two forms: quotation and paraphrase. It further sought to determine if they perceived these forms of unacknowledged borrowing as dishonest. The find- ings reveal that while verbatim quotation was regarded as wrong and dishonest, unacknowledged paraphrase was not. The disparity between the students’ under- standing of plagiarism and that of the Western academic community points to a need to teach the discourse functions of citation in the context of teaching aca- demic writing as a rhetorical act.

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Antonia Chandrasegaran. (2000). Cultures in Contact in Academic Writing: Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism.Asian Journal of English Language Teaching , 10(1): 91-114. https://doi.org/10.65961/AJELT-2000-1-005

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