STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF PLAGIARISM
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION OF PLAGIARISM

Summary/Abstract: Plagiarism is one of the major concerns in the academic world, including in the field of teaching English as a foreign language. With ESP university teachers trying to raise awareness of this issue, academic writing activities being designed to provide guidelines on how to avoid plagiarism and paper-originality checking software being increasingly used, one would expect students to fully understand the drawbacks of integrating in their assignments information and texts taken from unquoted sources. However, as this paper aims to highlight, there are often significant differences between the teachers’ expectations and the students’ perception and approach to this practice.

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