NDLI: ‘It’s not fair’: policy discourses and students’ understandings of plagiarism in a New Zealand university

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Author	Adam, Lee Anderson, Vivienne Spronken Smith, Rachel
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Plagiarism is a concept that is difficult to define. Although most higher education institutions have policies aimed at minimising and addressing student plagiarism, little research has examined the ways in which plagiarism is discursively constructed in university policy documents, or the connections and disconnections between institutional and student understandings of plagiarism in higher education. This article reports on a study that explored students’ understandings of plagiarism in relation to institutional plagiarism discourses at a New Zealand university. The qualitative study involved interviews with 21 undergraduate students, and analysis of University plagiarism policy documents. The University policy documents revealed moral and regulatory discourses. In the interviews, students predominantly drew on ethico-legal discourses, which reflected the discourses in the policy documents. However, the students also drew on (un)fairness discourses, confusion discourses, and, to a lesser extent, learning discourses. Notably, learning discourses were absent in the University policy. Our findings revealed tensions between the ways plagiarism was framed in institutional policy documents, and students’ understandings of plagiarism and academic writing. We suggest that, in order to support students’ acquisition of academic writing skills, plagiarism should be framed in relation to ‘learning to write’, rather than as a moral issue.
Starting Page	17
Ending Page	32
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00181560
Journal	Higher Education
Volume Number	74
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	1573174X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-07-14
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Plagiarism Discourse Policy Higher education Cheating Academic writing Academic literacies Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Law

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