2nd Asia-Pacific Educational Integrity Conference
Abstract
Obligatory intertextuality and proscribed plagiarism: intersections and contradictions for research writing
Christina Eira - Research Education Programs, University of AdelaideThe continuing difficulties at both individual and institutional levels in defining and consequently avoiding plagiarism indicate strongly that the issues are not as straightforward as they may sometimes appear. In this paper, I propose that a key factor underlying these difficulties is an overlap between the obligatory intertextual practices of academic communities and the proscription of plagiarism. The disjunction this produces must be accounted for in order to coherently integrate a more workable approach to plagiarism with the practice of membership in the academic community.
Keywords: intertextuality, plagiarism, community membership, discourse analysis
