Skills training to avoid inadvertent plagiarism: results from a randomised control study

Higher Education Research and Development

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1180-1193

  Newton, Fiona J ^a   Wright, Jill D ^a   Newton, Joshua D ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

intervention; non English speaking background; paraphrasing; patch writing; plagiarism; student learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911381695     PISSN: 07294360     EISSN: 14698366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2014.911257     Document Type: Article

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