Practice Makes Perfect:Improving Students' Skills in Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism With a Themed Methods Course

Teaching of Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 255-258

  Estow, Sarah ^a   Lawrence, Eva K ^a   Adams, Kathrynn A ^a  

^a GUILFORD COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

academic integrity; paraphrasing; plagiarism reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 81355139685     PISSN: 00986283     EISSN: 15322802     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0098628311421323     Document Type: Review

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