Weeds in the flower garden: An exploration of plagiarism in graduate students' research proposals and its connection to enculturation, ESL, and contextual factors
By J. Gilmore, Denise Strickland, B. Timmerman, M. Maher, David F. Feldon. 2010
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Existing literature provides insight into the nature and extent of plagiarism amongst undergraduate students (e.g., Ellery, 2008; Parameswaran & Devi, 2006; Selwyn, 2008). Plagiarism amongst graduate students is relatively unstudied, however, and the existing data are largely based on self-reports. This study investigated the rates and potential causes of plagiarism amongst graduate students in master’s and doctoral programmes in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and science or mathematics education by examining actual research proposals written by graduate students. Results indicate that plagiarism is a prevalent issue at each of the three university sites sampled and across all of the investigated disciplines. Fine grained analyses suggest that this plagiarism may be largely unintentional and due to a lack of disciplinary enculturation. Specifically, participants that plagiarised had approximately one less semester of research experience than graduate students who did not plagiarise. Furthermore, participants who lacked primary literature in their
Subfields: Health Informatics, Safety Research
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- Chinese University Students’ Perceptions of Plagiarism (2015, background): “Much of extant research involving international students in Anglo American educational settings suggests that non-Western students in general and Asian students in particular hold more lax attitudes toward plagiarism/academic dishonesty and are more prone to engage in illegitimate intertextual pract”