Plagiarism and Academic Literacies: The Case of Iranian Graduate Students of Agricultural Sciences
The problem of plagiarism has been a hot issue of concern to the academic community in recent years. In this study, we probed the factors which overtly or covertly lead to plagiarism growth among graduate students of agricultural sciences in Iran. To this end, we investigated the perceptions of 187...
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| description | The problem of plagiarism has been a hot issue of concern to the academic community in recent years. In this study, we probed the factors which overtly or covertly lead to plagiarism growth among graduate students of agricultural sciences in Iran. To this end, we investigated the perceptions of 187 graduate students in the field of agricultural sciences towards: the nature of plagiarism, different forms of plagiarism, and the underlying motives for plagiarism through a questionnaire. Academic literacies model was adopted as a reference point to uncover those injustices in the educational sector deterring the literacy development. The results revealed that most graduate students of agricultural sciences had a rather good understanding to the nature of plagiarism, and considered it as an unacceptable serious problem which should be avoided. Nonetheless, in marked contrast, their perceptions towards different forms of plagiarism unfolded further doubts on their understanding to who should be known as author and who is deserved to be awarded authorship. The results revealed that recursive practice of a long list of violations, seemingly, made the academics blind towards their faulty nature, pushed back the borders of literacy and made them common academic norm. The findings further indicated that plagiarism grows hand in hand with deviation from scientific values and devaluation of science, marketization of science and violations of academic commitments, and politicization of science and alienation from the universal standards. The findings could provide useful implications for revisiting and reforming the educational policies in general and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs in particular. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7bfcac011d5c4661a63a5ba2ccbb90812025-08-20T03:03:59ZengImam Khomeini International University, Qazvin,Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies2676-53572021-06-018214514010.30479/jmrels.2019.11510.1432Plagiarism and Academic Literacies: The Case of Iranian Graduate Students of Agricultural SciencesMahmood Reza Atai 0 Esmat Babaii 1 Elahe Fazlollahi2 Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Kharazmi University, Tehran, IranDepartment of foreign languages, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran The problem of plagiarism has been a hot issue of concern to the academic community in recent years. In this study, we probed the factors which overtly or covertly lead to plagiarism growth among graduate students of agricultural sciences in Iran. To this end, we investigated the perceptions of 187 graduate students in the field of agricultural sciences towards: the nature of plagiarism, different forms of plagiarism, and the underlying motives for plagiarism through a questionnaire. Academic literacies model was adopted as a reference point to uncover those injustices in the educational sector deterring the literacy development. The results revealed that most graduate students of agricultural sciences had a rather good understanding to the nature of plagiarism, and considered it as an unacceptable serious problem which should be avoided. Nonetheless, in marked contrast, their perceptions towards different forms of plagiarism unfolded further doubts on their understanding to who should be known as author and who is deserved to be awarded authorship. The results revealed that recursive practice of a long list of violations, seemingly, made the academics blind towards their faulty nature, pushed back the borders of literacy and made them common academic norm. The findings further indicated that plagiarism grows hand in hand with deviation from scientific values and devaluation of science, marketization of science and violations of academic commitments, and politicization of science and alienation from the universal standards. The findings could provide useful implications for revisiting and reforming the educational policies in general and English for Academic Purposes (EAP) programs in particular.https://jmrels.journals.ikiu.ac.ir/article_1893.html |
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| title | Plagiarism and Academic Literacies: The Case of Iranian Graduate Students of Agricultural Sciences |
| title_full | Plagiarism and Academic Literacies: The Case of Iranian Graduate Students of Agricultural Sciences |
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