Cultural Values, Plagiarism, and Fairness: Plagiaarism and Learning

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“Cultural Values, Plagiarism, and Fairness: When Plagiarism Gets in the Way of Learning”:
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1. Question 1
The three mentioned sections are “Academic Integrity in Course Work,” “Academic Integrity in Examinations,” and “Motivations for Cheating.” The “Academic Integrity in Course Work” section explores experiences of plagiarism and course work international students undergo at previous universities. The second section presents on malpractices international students follow during examinations at previous universities. The third (sub)section examines underlying motivations to gain good grades (Niall, and Introna 218).
2. Question 2
In contrast to UK students, who are accustomed to much more rigorous course work and plagiarism restrictions and rules, Greek students, having much less course work and next to none about (conscious) plagiarism experiences, report copying from sources without referencing as acceptable, including an instance of a Greek student interpreting “significant” plagiarism as copying one paragraph or more (7-9).
3. Question 3
The reasons for unintentional plagiarism include note-taking during research process and losing track of sources as well as poor time management, reasons shared among UK and
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non-UK students (9).
4. Question 4
The UK and Greek students share a common belief, as reported in current study, that copying sources without referencing is still one way of learning since producing an argument requires some reading and understanding of such sources (9-10).
5. Question 5
According to Greek students, when English is not your native language, paraphrasing sources is difficult. Therefore, Greek students continue to argue, copying bits from different sources is acceptable since copying in such case helps learning process – an echo of earlier responses making connections between learning and unintentional plagiarism (10).
6. Question 6
Table 4 showcases major differences between UK and non-UK students on collaboration and coursework. For Greek students, 36% admit writing a paper for classmate and 29% do not see offering help to a classmate as a major issue but as minor cheating (10-11).
7. Question 7
For Greek students, examinations at home country are only memory tests. This makes examinations, as reported by many Greek student in current study, futile and hence “forced” cheating using unpermitted crib notes to reproduce required answers word for word ...