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Confronting Plagiarism: Replicating Wheeler's Study in an ESL Environment

Kapela, Cristopher A
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-1014
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo154455035758733

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2018, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, English (as a Second Language).
The current study is a replication of Greg Wheeler’s 2009 study entitled, “Plagiarism in the Japanese universities: Truly a cultural matter?” The current study uses his materials in an ESL context at the University of Toledo and focused on how students reacted when confronted with plagiarism. These results were then compared to Wheeler’s study. The current study examined results of a study of 40 ESL participants from the University of Toledo. Data was gathered through a survey distributed in ESL Composition I classes. The survey contained three one-paragraph essays, all fabricated by Wheeler. Students were given information that two authors were students submitting work for a class, and one author was from a published source. Students scored the essays (1-10) and gave comments on why they gave their score. These scores were then averaged and comments were used to determine how students felt about plagiarism. Limitations in the sample pool led to some inconclusive results; however, one notable result was that the majority of survey participants were unable to detect that plagiarism had occurred. The majority of participants focused on content, grammar, and sentence structure, but when plagiarism was detected, it was similar to the results of Wheeler’s study.
Melinda Reichelt (Committee Chair)
Kasumi Yamazaki (Committee Member)
Barbara Schneider (Committee Member)
71 p.
English As A Second Language; Language; Linguistics
Plagiarism; ESL; ESL Students; Plagiarism Identification;

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  • Kapela, C. A. (2018). Confronting Plagiarism: Replicating Wheeler's Study in an ESL Environment [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo154455035758733

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kapela, Cristopher. Confronting Plagiarism: Replicating Wheeler's Study in an ESL Environment. 2018. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo154455035758733.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kapela, Cristopher. "Confronting Plagiarism: Replicating Wheeler's Study in an ESL Environment." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo154455035758733

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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This open access ETD is published by University of Toledo and OhioLINK.