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Cultural Issues (Student)

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Cultural Issues and Plagiarism

 

Copyright and all aspects of intellectual property are couched in western cultural values that recognize individual ownership of art, music, writing, and so on.   These laws assist in ensuring the creator receives personal credit for work and ideas, and sometimes remuneration.

 

Plagiarism is an academic construct inspired by copyright law, but an act of plagiarism need not violate copyright law to still violate an institution’s code of academic integrity. Academic institutions see receiving acknowledgment and ownership of one’s ideas as crucial to the life and vitality of scholarly pursuit.

 

For students who grow up in nonwestern cultures where ideas of individual ownership and property rights do not exist, the academic construct of a scholar or researcher owning words and ideas is unnatural.  The notions behind plagiarism may be equally foreign. And yet all students at a university are responsible for understanding and following its academic integrity policy. 

 

 


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This article digs deep into the cultural ramification of the western scientific notion of plagiarism and its impact on nonwestern scientists.  Using a 1996 Science article about scientific misconduct among Chinese researchers,  the article explores the tensions caused by nonwestern researchers trying to adhere to western academic publishing conventions.  The article also examines how globalization and technology are challenging Western concepts of intellectual property.

 

A thoughtful review of current literature on the cultural raminifications of plagiarism as it plays out academia as the tension of western and nonwestern views of ownership, respect, and copyright. Of particular value is the examination of the reasons for the rise of plagiarism among international students.

 

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Rebecca Moore Howard, a noted plagiarism scholar, has put together a collection of bibliographies on key issues in plagiarism scholarship. This bibliography is on the intercultural issues of plagiarism.  For a complete list of her plagiarism bibliographies, see the Plagiarism Scholarship section.

 

 

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