Malaysian undergraduates’ (in) ability to identify the correct use of sources / Ho Chui Chui and Wong Soon Heng

Ho, Chui Chui and Wong, Soon Heng (2014) Malaysian undergraduates’ (in) ability to identify the correct use of sources / Ho Chui Chui and Wong Soon Heng. Voice of Academia (VOA), 9 (1). pp. 13-22. ISSN 2682-7840

Official URL: https://voa.uitm.edu.my/

Abstract

Studies conducted in the West show that one of the reasons students plagiarize
is because of their poor understanding of the correct use of sources.
This paper reports on a small-scale study which assessed whether Malaysian
law matriculation students could identify the correct use of sources.
Findings show that 66% of the respondents did not know that quoting without
using quotation marks was an example of the incorrect use of a source
although the source was acknowledged. Similarly, 66% also felt that a
source was correctly used although it was poorly paraphrased with only
slight modification as long as the source was cited. The results indicate that
these Malaysian undergraduates have a poor understanding about the
proper use of sources and may inadvertently be committing plagiarism.

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Item Type: Article
Creators:
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Ho, Chui Chui
chuichui@kedah.uitm.edu.my
Wong, Soon Heng
shwong195@kedah.uitm.edu.my
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > Language and languages
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics > Study and teaching. Research
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kedah > Sg Petani Campus > Research Management Institute (RMI), UiTM Cawangan Kedah
Journal or Publication Title: Voice of Academia (VOA)
UiTM Journal Collections: UiTM Journal > Voice of Academia (VOA)
ISSN: 2682-7840
Volume: 9
Number: 1
Page Range: pp. 13-22
Keywords: Citation, Malaysian undergraduates, Paraphrasing, Plagiarism
Date: 2014
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31154
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