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Publication details [#51790]

Nilsson, Lars-Erik, Anders Eklöf and Torgny Ottosson. 2009. 'I'm entitled to make mistakes and get corrected': students' self positioning in inquiries into academic conduct. Critical Discourse Studies 6 (2) : 127–152.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

behavior | error | self-consciousness | self-representation | university

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This study demonstrates that university students, guilty of plagiarism, often try to reposition themselves as victim, learner, professional or repentant offender. Such attempts though, generally fail to engender exoneration.