Oct
15
“No one has ever told [students] that study at undergraduate level is basically a matter of demonstrating that you’ve read and understood the relevant literature.
They are afraid that if they own up to their whole essay being composed of sources by experts in the field, they’ll convict themselves of unoriginality – not realising that originality is not required at undergraduate level. What is required is a mastery of sources by experts in the field. Thus we have the tragi-comic situation where, instead of showing off the research they have done, they are actually concealing it.” Brandon Robshaw explains that plagiarism would happen less if students realised how good it is to reference and quote from other sources. From The Independent, 15 October 2009
They are afraid that if they own up to their whole essay being composed of sources by experts in the field, they’ll convict themselves of unoriginality – not realising that originality is not required at undergraduate level. What is required is a mastery of sources by experts in the field. Thus we have the tragi-comic situation where, instead of showing off the research they have done, they are actually concealing it.” Brandon Robshaw explains that plagiarism would happen less if students realised how good it is to reference and quote from other sources. From The Independent, 15 October 2009
