Borrowing Others' Words: Text, Ownership, Memory, and Plagiarism

Considers some of the complexities of text, ownership, memorization, and plagiarism. The article suggests that plagiarism needs to be understood in terms of complex relationships between text, memory, and learning as part of an undertaking to explore different relationships between learning, literac...

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Published inTESOL quarterly Vol. 30; no. 2; p. 201
Main Author Pennycook, Alastair
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1996
Subjects
Authors
China
Cognitive Structures
College Students
Context Effect
Cultural Differences
English (Second Language)
Europe
Foreign Countries
Hong Kong
Information Literacy
Intellectual Property
Interviews
Learning Processes
Plagiarism
Recall (Psychology)
Second Language Instruction
Student Attitudes
Teacher Role
Hong Kong
China
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Summary:Considers some of the complexities of text, ownership, memorization, and plagiarism. The article suggests that plagiarism needs to be understood in terms of complex relationships between text, memory, and learning as part of an undertaking to explore different relationships between learning, literacy, and cultural difference. (49 references) (Author/CK)
ISSN:0039-8322
DOI:10.2307/3588141