Developing students' referencing skills: A matter of plagiarism, punishment and morality or of learning to write critically?

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 921-930

  Vardi, Iris ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

academic literacy; plagiarism; referencing; student writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870926244     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2012.673120     Document Type: Article

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