Two first-year students' strategies for writing from sources: Patchwriting or plagiarism?

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 165-180

  Li, Yongyan ^a   Casanave, Christine Pearson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese EFL students; Instructor awareness of misuse of sources; Patchwriting; Undergraduate use of sources; University plagiarism regulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861197969     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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