Institutional policies on plagiarism: The case of eight Chinese universities of foreign languages/international studies

System

Volumn 66, Issue , 2017, Pages 56-68

  Hu, Guangwei ^a   Sun, Xiaoya ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b XI'AN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese universities; Institutional policies; Moralist regulatory intertextual discourses; Plagiarism; Punitive self regulative educative approaches

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015637444     PISSN: 0346251X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.system.2017.03.015     Document Type: Article

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