Investigating High School Students' Attitudes Towards Plagiarism in the Writing Classroom

الموضوعات

تربية وتعليم

الملخص

Plagiarism is a controversial issue nowadays, with some researchers arguing that students plagiarize because they are dishonest, and others believing that students plagiarize because they lack the specific research and citation skills required in the writing classroom. Others believe that students who are taught that plagiarism is unethical would not plagiarize if they were equipped with the necessary skills to accomplish the assignment. Following a clear pedagogy on what plagiarism means and how to avoid it would reduce the number of plagiarism cases in schools. This research sought to answer the following three research questions by involving 115 male and female students who study at a private school in Dubai: (1) Do students know what plagiarism is? (2) What research skills do these students say their teachers teach them? (3) Under what circumstances, if any, might students plagiarize? These students were in grade 10 and they were of different nationalities, both Arab and non-Arab. I distributed questionnaires which included open-ended and closeended questions, from which I collected both quantitative and qualitative data. The findings indicated that the female students were more aware of plagiarism than the male students were. Students' responses have shown that most of the students learned about plagiarism from sources other than their school environment. In addition, most students said that they were taught how to summarize and paraphrase but not how to quote. However, many students reported facing difficulty in paraphrasing. This may suggest that students are plagiarizing when they find it difficult to paraphrase because they do not know how to quote. The majority of the students said that they see themselves in situations where they or their classmates might plagiarize, for reasons like lack of research skills, time constraints, or not having enough information about the topic.

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

0e5516fe-0136-4611-b0e3-3ca4d6eb838f

رقم العقد

0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

pdf text

أسماء الملفات

46230_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

Investigating High School Students' Attitudes Towards Plagiarism in the Writing Classroom

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

Cindy Gunn

الإعداد

Randa Fayez Bou-Mehdi

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية