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Title: ESL undergraduates’ patterns of plagiarism in academic essays based on print or internet sources
Authors: Samaneh Zangenehmadar (UPM)
Tan Bee Hoon (UPM)
Keywords: Academic writing
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Plagiarism patterns
Issue Date: Mar-2017
Description: One of the most important issues among ESL students is inappropriate use of source material in their academic writing. As a result, plagiarism is more common among ESL students. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of source information type (print versus online) on plagiarism patterns in students’ academic essays. The data of this study comprised Malaysian undergraduates’ essays written based on references to print or Internet sources. The originality reports of the students’ essays submitted to Turnitin were then checked against the original sources to code various instances of similarity. The results indicated that direct copying with no reference and quotation marks was the most frequent plagiarism pattern in students’ essays. Moreover, the study found a statistically significant difference between plagiarism patterns in students’ writing based on print and online source modes.
News Source: Pertanika Journals
ISSN: 0128-7702
Volume: 25
Pages: 205-220
Publisher: Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
Appears in Collections:Journal Content Pages/ Kandungan Halaman Jurnal

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