Cultural Backgrounds and Textual Appropriation

This study examines interviews with 46 undergraduates to explore if participants with differing language and cultural backgrounds view plagiarism or textual appropriation primarily as a) a language problem because of a lack of words of one’s own, or b) a cultural challenge as a result of either some first language (L1) cultural training to privilege a collective ownership of words and ideas or the blurring boundary of originator and collaborator...