Text-Based Plagiarism in Scientific Writing: What Chinese Supervisors Think About Copying and How to Reduce it in Students' Writing

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 569-583

  Li, Yongyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese scientists; Supervisors; Text based plagiarism; Textual borrowing; Writing for publication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; EDUCATION; ETHICS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH ETHICS; SCIENCE; STUDENT; TEACHER; UNIVERSITY; WRITING;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; AUTHORSHIP; CHINA; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LANGUAGE; MENTORS; ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION; PLAGIARISM; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; WRITING;

EID: 84878297594     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 16605454     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-011-9342-7     Document Type: Article

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