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Owing to vastly increasing practice of plagiarism at university level, it is vital that university teachers understand students’ beliefs about plagiarism and the nature of plagiarism at their institutions. This article investigates senior EFL college students’ perceptions of plagiarism seriousness and reasons for plagiarism via utilizing a question...
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... Regard to the fourth study question (Do students view some types of plagiarism as more serious than others?), the mean of plagiarism seriousness in each type was calculated by SPSS based on the students' results in the questionnaire as displayed in Table 2 (To check the detailed table of frequencies and percentages, refer to Appendix 4). Mean Seriousness, in Table 2, indicates the extent of seriousness of each plagiarism type based on the participants' perceptions estimated by SPSS. ...Context 2
... Regard to the fourth study question (Do students view some types of plagiarism as more serious than others?), the mean of plagiarism seriousness in each type was calculated by SPSS based on the students' results in the questionnaire as displayed in Table 2 (To check the detailed table of frequencies and percentages, refer to Appendix 4). Mean Seriousness, in Table 2, indicates the extent of seriousness of each plagiarism type based on the participants' perceptions estimated by SPSS. Thus, some types of plagiarism are relatively considered as more serious than others in the aforementioned table. ...Context 3
... the answer to the fourth research question is 'yes, students view some types of plagiarism as more serious than others' based on their responses to the reasons of plagiarism. Although, there are differences among most of the types of plagiarism, as shown in Table 2, the learners mainly consider most of the types of plagiarism as 'Not Plagiarism' or almost 'Moderate Plagiarism' which are not aligned with the various seriousness levels of this study literature review 5 . ...