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The tangled web internet plagiarism and international students` academic writing
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posted on 2005-01-01, 00:00 authored by Wendy Sutherland-SmithWendy Sutherland-SmithThis study explores the notion of plagiarism and the Internet from 11 English as Second Language (ESL) teachers and 186 first-year ESL students at South-Coast University in Melbourne, Australia. Data collection was by a questionnaire and semi-structured interviews, and coded using SPSS and N*Vivo software to ascertain trends in response. The most significant difference in response related to the concept of the Internet as copyrightable space. ESL teachers in this study regarded cyberspace as a limitless environment for ‘cut and paste’ plagiarism in students’ academic writing, whereas ESL students considered the Internet a ‘free zone’ and not governed by legal proprietary rights. These conflicting views, it is suggested, relate to differing notions of authorship and attribution: the Romantic notion protected by legal theory and sanctions versus literary theory and techno-literacy notions of authorship. This research highlights the need to reformulate plagiarism policies in light of global and technological perspectives of authorship and attribution of text.
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Journal of Asian Pacific communicationVolume
15Issue
1Pagination
15 - 30Publisher
John BenjaminsLocation
Amsterdam, The NetherlandsPublisher DOI
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0957-6851eISSN
1569-9838Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2005, John Benjamins Publishing CompanyUsage metrics
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