Discourse appropriation, construction of identities, and the complex issue of plagiarism: ESL students writing in graduate school

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 102-117

  Abasi, Ali R ^a   Akbari, Nahal ^a   Graves, Barbara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authorship; Discourse(s); Identity construction; Plagiarism; Students as ethnographers; Textual borrowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747076939     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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