CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Mikeshin, Igor |
|---|---|
| Title | Why Students Plagiarize: Intent, Unawareness, or Specific Identity? |
| Summary | The thesis focuses on student written plagiarism as a research problem. From prior research on plagiarism and scientific knowledge I developed three hypotheses: intentional plagiarism as an easy way to perform an assignment, unintentional plagiarism caused by misleading flow of digital texts, unawareness of instructions, and lack of feedback, and different identity of students, as opposed to scholars. The latter hypothesis was implicitly suggested by some of the authors on plagiarism in academia, but was not properly tested. I base my analysis on the interviews I conducted with the Law students of two graduate schools, Central European University in Budapest and Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. |
| Supervisor | Vedres, Balazs |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/mikeshin_igor.pdf |
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