Acceptable or plagiarized? Thai university students’ evaluations of academic texts
University students are expected to develop an awareness of correct and ethical approaches to writing. This awareness includes the ability to determine the suitability of academic texts that are written based on references made to other sources. This study aims to examine Thai university stude...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2025
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/26595/1/Gema%20Online_25_4_3.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/26595/ https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1866 |
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| Summary: | University students are expected to develop an awareness of correct and ethical approaches to
writing. This awareness includes the ability to determine the suitability of academic texts that are
written based on references made to other sources. This study aims to examine Thai university
students’ evaluation of the acceptability of academic texts that were paraphrased. Recent research
from the region had indicated that university students had an incomplete understanding of
acceptable academic writing. To further examine this phenomenon, this current study employs a
mixed-methods approach where students had to rate the acceptability of three paraphrased versions
of a text and provide their views on what constituted acceptable paraphrase through a survey. The
survey was distributed to university students enrolled in an undergraduate-level academic writing
course. A total of 104 students completed the survey by providing their ratings of acceptability.
Among these, 89 students provided qualitative responses to share their views on what acceptable
paraphrase is. The quantitative results indicated that many students were able to identify texts that
were paraphrased completely; nonetheless, the qualitative responses revealed that students’
perceptions towards paraphrased revolved around form, that is, the substitution of words and
reorganization of text. This reaffirmed existing studies from the Thai context, but it also provided
new insights about how students viewed academic writing. |
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