Journal Article

True Motives behind Algerian EFL Students' Plagiarism

Arab, Kheira

2022

Overview

Over the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in the practice of plagiarism among Djilali Liabes University EFL Master Students. Though, students are accountable for such misconducts, the current study assumes that the week academic writing skills of most of these students are the major cause behind their resort to plagiarism. To check such assumption, the researcher relied on a retrospective analysis of her supervised Master dissertations. Six dissertations were analysed, all of which involved cases of plagiarism. The findings revealed that the subjects held varying conceptions of plagiarism and thus they approached it for different reasons. Yet, the findings confirmed that all the subjects faced difficulties to express their own thoughts in writing let alone to report, paraphrase and summarize other authors' thoughts hence the importance to reconsider the teaching of writing across the academic levels.

• Publisher: المركز الجامعي الونشريسي تيسمسيلت - مخبر الدراسات النقدية والأدبية المعاصرة
• Subject: الأخطاء الكتابية / الأخلاق والسلوك / التعليم العالي / السلوك الأكاديمي