In their own words: a qualitative study of the reasons australian university students plagiarize

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-198

  Devlin, Marcia ^a   Gray, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Plagiarism; Qualitative research; Reasons; Student experience; Student voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 70749131674     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360701310805     Document Type: Article

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