An integrated academic literacy approach to improving students’ understanding of plagiarism in an accounting course

Accounting Education

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 14-34

  Powell, Lisa ^a   Singh, Nishani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

accounting; educative intervention; integrated; Plagiarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84962540721     PISSN: 09639284     EISSN: 14684489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09639284.2015.1133311     Document Type: Article

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