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Article: Text-Based Plagiarism in Scientific Writing: What Chinese Supervisors Think About Copying and How to Reduce it in Students' Writing
| Title | Text-Based Plagiarism in Scientific Writing: What Chinese Supervisors Think About Copying and How to Reduce it in Students' Writing |
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| Authors | |
| Keywords | Chinese scientists Supervisors Text-based plagiarism Textual borrowing Writing for publication |
| Issue Date | 2013 |
| Publisher | Opragen Publications. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.opragen.co.uk/ |
| Citation | Science And Engineering Ethics, 2013, v. 19 n. 2, p. 569-583 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Text-based plagiarism, or textual copying, typically in the form of replicating or patchwriting sentences in a row from sources, seems to be an issue of growing concern among scientific journal editors. Editors have emphasized that senior authors (typically supervisors of science students) should take the responsibility for educating novices against text-based plagiarism. To address a research gap in the literature as to how scientist supervisors perceive the issue of textual copying and what they do in educating their students, this paper reports an interview study with 14 supervisors at a research-oriented Chinese university. The study throws light on the potentiality of senior authors mentoring novices in English as an Additional Language (EAL) contexts and has implications for the efforts that can be made in the wider scientific community to support scientists in writing against text-based plagiarism. © 2011 The Author(s). |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/147129 |
| ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 3.777 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.730 |
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| References | Barton, B. E. (2005). Six-word rule could turn description into plagiarism. Nature, 436, 24. doi: 10.1038/436024c Bouville, M. (2008). Plagiarism: Words and ideas. Science and Engineering Ethics, 14, 311–322. doi: 10.1007/s11948-008-9057-6 Brumfiel, G. (2007). Turkish physicists face accusations of plagiarism. Nature, 449, 8. doi: 10.1038/449008b Butler, D. (2008). Entire-paper plagiarism caught by software. Nature, 455, 715. doi: 10.1038/455715a Butler, D. (2010). Journals step up plagiarism policing. Nature, 466, 167. doi: 10.1038/466167a Cargill, M., & O’Connor, P. (2006). Developing Chinese scientists’ skills for publishing in English: Evaluating collaborating-colleague workshops based on genre analysis. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 5, 207–221. doi: 10.1016/j.jeap.2006.07.002 Dubois, B. L. (1988). Citation in biomedical journal articles. English for Specific Purposes, 7, 181–193. doi: 10.1016/0889-4906(88)90015-4 Eckel, E. J. (2010). Textual appropriation in engineering Master’s theses: A preliminary study. Science and Engineering Ethics. doi:10.1007/s11948-010-9214-6. Errami, M., & Garner, H. (2008). A tale of two citations. Nature, 451, 397–399. doi: 10.1038/451397a Hyland, F. (2001). Dealing with plagiarism when giving feedback. ELT Journal, 55(4), 375–381. doi: 10.1093/elt/55.4.375 Li, X., & Xiong, L. (1996). Chinese researchers debate rash of plagiarism cases. Science, 274, 337–338. doi: 10.1126/science.274.5286.337 Nederhof, A. J. (1985). Methods of coping with social desirability bias: A review. European Journal of Social Psychology, 15(3), 263–280. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.2420150303 Qiu, J. (2010). Publish or perish in China. Nature, 463, 142–143. doi: 10.1038/463142a St. John, M. J. (1987). Writing processes of Spanish scientists publishing in English. English for Specific Purposes, 6, 113–120. doi: 10.1016/0889-4906(87)90016-0 Williams, D. (2007). Plagiarism and redundancy (Editorial). Biomaterials, 28, 2535. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.02.025 Williams, P., & Wager, E. (2011). Exploring why and how journal editors retract articles: Findings from a qualitative study. Science and Engineering Ethics. doi:10.1007/s11948-011-9292-0. Yilmaz, I. (2007). Plagiarism? No, we’re just borrowing better English. Nature, 449, 658. doi: 10.1038/449658a Zhang, Y. (2010b). International, not ‘campus’, please. Nature, 467, 789. doi: 10.1038/467789a Zhang, Y. (2010c). CrossCheck: An effective tool for detecting plagiarism. Learned Publishing, 23(1), 9–14. doi: 10.1087/20100103 |
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| dc.contributor.author | Li, Y | en_HK |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-28T08:19:49Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2012-05-28T08:19:49Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.citation | Science And Engineering Ethics, 2013, v. 19 n. 2, p. 569-583 | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1353-3452 | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/147129 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Text-based plagiarism, or textual copying, typically in the form of replicating or patchwriting sentences in a row from sources, seems to be an issue of growing concern among scientific journal editors. Editors have emphasized that senior authors (typically supervisors of science students) should take the responsibility for educating novices against text-based plagiarism. To address a research gap in the literature as to how scientist supervisors perceive the issue of textual copying and what they do in educating their students, this paper reports an interview study with 14 supervisors at a research-oriented Chinese university. The study throws light on the potentiality of senior authors mentoring novices in English as an Additional Language (EAL) contexts and has implications for the efforts that can be made in the wider scientific community to support scientists in writing against text-based plagiarism. © 2011 The Author(s). | en_HK |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Opragen Publications. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.opragen.co.uk/ | en_HK |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Science and Engineering Ethics | en_HK |
| dc.rights | The Author(s) | en_US |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Chinese scientists | en_HK |
| dc.subject | Supervisors | en_HK |
| dc.subject | Text-based plagiarism | en_HK |
| dc.subject | Textual borrowing | en_HK |
| dc.subject | Writing for publication | en_HK |
| dc.title | Text-Based Plagiarism in Scientific Writing: What Chinese Supervisors Think About Copying and How to Reduce it in Students' Writing | en_HK |
| dc.type | Article | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.openurl | http://www.springerlink.com/link-out/?id=2104&code=37848310134T8472&MUD=MP | en_US |
| dc.identifier.email | Li, Y: yongyan@hku.hk | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.authority | Li, Y=rp00927 | en_HK |
| dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | en_US |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11948-011-9342-7 | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.pmid | 22212356 | - |
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84878297594 | en_HK |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 205506 | - |
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| dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
| dc.description.other | Springer Open Choice, 28 May 2012 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Li, Y=12238864000 | en_HK |
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