Undergraduates’ Ability in Writing Paraphrase and Their Perceptions of Plagiarism

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10.2991/assehr.k.200306.019How to use a DOI?

Keywords

academic writing, paraphrase, plagiarism

Abstract

Writing in academic settings is one of the requirements that higher education students have to master. The academic writings may be in the forms of essays, journal articles, paper, and thesis. The thesis is the final project that they have to complete demonstrating their ability in incorporating language skills and components. The competence in presenting language skills and components is one of the main requirements that the graduates of English Language Education Program (ELEP) have to fulfill. One particular skill in writing the thesis is the use of paraphrase when citing sources. Unacceptable paraphrase may result in plagiarism. This phenomenon is quite prevalent especially to universities that have not yet regulated the penalty for plagiarism. This study aims to investigate whether the theses written by the undergraduate of ELEP in Universitas Negeri Padang contain acceptable paraphrases, and to seek out their perceptions of plagiarism.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yoshinta Aulia Hasanah
AU  - Sitti Fatimah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/11
TI  - Undergraduates’ Ability in Writing Paraphrase and Their Perceptions of Plagiarism
BT  - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 108
EP  - 111
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200306.019
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200306.019
ID  - Hasanah2020
ER  -