<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><rec-number>8611</rec-number><ref-type>Journal Article</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eckel, Edward J.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Textual Appropriation in Engineering Master’s Theses: A Preliminary Study</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Science and Engineering Ethics</style></secondary-title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sci Eng Ethics</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Authorship</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">education</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ENGINEERING</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">plagiarism</style></keyword></keywords><taxonomies><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Plagiarism</style></taxonomy><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Authorship</style></taxonomy><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Engineering </style></taxonomy><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Education</style></taxonomy></taxonomies><pubtype><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal Article</style></pubtype><audience-level><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">grad</style></audience-level><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">9/2011</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">17</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">469 - 483</style></pages><issn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">14715546</style></issn><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In the thesis literature review, an engineering graduate student is expected to place original research in the context of previous work by other researchers. However, for graduate students for whom English is a second langue, the literature review may be a mixture of original writing and verbatim source text appropriated without quotations. Such a use of source material make students open to an accusation of plagiarism. This author studied the text strings from a random sample of 100 engineering masters theses to see if such textual appropriation is common. The results suggest that textual borrowing may indeed be a common feature of the master's thesis literature review, raising questions about the ability of graduate students to synthesize the literature. The study also illustrates the difficulties of making a determination of plagiarism based on simple textual similarity.</style></abstract><doi><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.1007/s11948-010-9214-6</style></doi><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue></record></records></xml>