What is it about?
The paper provides an overview of an innovitive way to introduce new undergraduate students to writing at university with an emphasis on helping them understand plagiarism. It shows how students have varying understandings of plagiarism and that some may need to experience being accused of plagiarism before they can truly understand what it is.
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Why is it important?
This paper promotes the importance of helping students develop an understanding of plagiarism early in their time at university and argues that for some the only way they will be able to do this is by being accused of plagiarism.
Perspectives
The paper describes how writing is introduced to a group of new undergraduates. The approach helps students adapt to writing at university and places particular emphasis on developing an awareness of plagiarism. The approach evolved after we had relised that our efforts to help students were not working with many and that for some students it was not until we told them that the formative writing they had produced would be considered plagiarism that they began to understand.
Dr Christopher John Ireland
Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
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This page is a summary of: Let Them Plagiarise: Developing Academic Writing in a Safe Environment, Journal of Academic Writing, September 2011, Coventry University, Lanchester Library,
DOI: 10.18552/joaw.v1i1.10.
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