Plagiarism Norms and Practices in Coursework Assignments

The study compared the plagiarism norms and practices among pre-university, diploma and degree students. The specific aspects examined were perceived necessity to include citations in assignments, preferred penalties for plagiarism, and academic writing practices. The questionnaire responses of 263...

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Main Authors: Ting, Su Hie, Muriatul Khusmah, Musa, Mah, Florence Sau-Fong
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spelling my.unimas.ir.142862023-11-02T03:02:18Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14286/ Plagiarism Norms and Practices in Coursework Assignments Ting, Su Hie Muriatul Khusmah, Musa Mah, Florence Sau-Fong LB Theory and practice of education The study compared the plagiarism norms and practices among pre-university, diploma and degree students. The specific aspects examined were perceived necessity to include citations in assignments, preferred penalties for plagiarism, and academic writing practices. The questionnaire responses of 263 students from three levels of university education were analysed. The results showed that the perceived necessity for attribution in assignments is the highest for the degree students but the norm to require citations and to penalise omission of citations is not extensive at all three levels. A majority of the students felt that plagiarism should be penalised but preferred warning from their lecturer, assignment resubmission and counselling. Mosaic plagiarism is the most common whereby students combine texts from the same source or different sources without proper citation and referencing. The most common unethical help-seeking behaviour is copying another student’s work. The findings suggest that while lack of knowledge on citation and referencing may lead to improper or non-attribution of sources, plagiarism cannot be dealt with by instruction on citation and referencing alone as respect for intellectual property can only be inculcated by treating plagiarism as a serious academic misdemeanour. Macrothink Institute 2014 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/14286/1/Florence.pdf Ting, Su Hie and Muriatul Khusmah, Musa and Mah, Florence Sau-Fong (2014) Plagiarism Norms and Practices in Coursework Assignments. International Journal of Education, 6 (1). ISSN 1948-5476 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271065220_Plagiarism_Norms_and_Practices_in_Coursework_Assignments DOI: 10.5296/ije.v6i1.4676
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Plagiarism Norms and Practices in Coursework Assignments
description The study compared the plagiarism norms and practices among pre-university, diploma and degree students. The specific aspects examined were perceived necessity to include citations in assignments, preferred penalties for plagiarism, and academic writing practices. The questionnaire responses of 263 students from three levels of university education were analysed. The results showed that the perceived necessity for attribution in assignments is the highest for the degree students but the norm to require citations and to penalise omission of citations is not extensive at all three levels. A majority of the students felt that plagiarism should be penalised but preferred warning from their lecturer, assignment resubmission and counselling. Mosaic plagiarism is the most common whereby students combine texts from the same source or different sources without proper citation and referencing. The most common unethical help-seeking behaviour is copying another student’s work. The findings suggest that while lack of knowledge on citation and referencing may lead to improper or non-attribution of sources, plagiarism cannot be dealt with by instruction on citation and referencing alone as respect for intellectual property can only be inculcated by treating plagiarism as a serious academic misdemeanour.
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