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Academic Writing and Plagiarism : A Linguistic Analysis
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pecorari, Diane.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Academic writing.
- Bibliographical citations.
- Plagiarism.
- Report writing.
- Local Subjects:
- Academic writing.
- Bibliographical citations.
- Plagiarism.
- Report writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Continuum International Publishing, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Plagiarism has long been regarded with concern by the university community as a serious act of wrongdoing threatening core academic values. There has been a perceived increase in plagiarism over recent years, due in part to issues raised by the new media, a diverse student population and the rise in English as a lingua franca. This book examines plagiarism, the inappropriate relationship between a text and its sources, from a linguistic perspective. Diane Pecorari looks at processes of first and second language writers; interplay between reading and writing; writer's identity and voice; and th
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Plagiarism: Why the Need for a Linguistic Analysis?; 2 Plagiarism in Perspective; 3 Learning to Write from Sources; 4 The Texts; 5 'My Position, it is Impossible': The Writers' Perspectives; 6 The Readers; 7 Plagiarism, Patchwriting and Source Use in Context; Appendix: Research Methods; References; Author Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-87405-5
- 9786612874055
- 1-4411-3511-1
- OCLC:
- 682540849
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