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  • Essay / Plagiarism Essay - 553

    Article InformationVoelker, TA, Love, LG, & Pentina, I. (2012). Plagiarism: what don't they know? Journal of Business Education, 87(1), 36-41. doi:10.1080/08832323.2011.552536AbstractIn the article, What don't they know? “They” refers to higher education students in the United States. The authors' intention was to begin to fill in some of the missing pieces that exist in the empirical study of what undergraduate and graduate students actually know about plagiarism. The authors, themselves college business professors, obtained their sample from this population at one point in time. a single university, rightly recognizing that non-randomness is the main limitation of the study. Three research questions were addressed: 1) what is students' actual understanding of what constitutes plagiarism, 2) what are students' understanding of their own role and responsibility in academic honesty, and 3) gaps in Is knowledge distributed equally among students and, if No, are there any trends in gaps attributable to specific subgroups (e.g., undergraduate, master's...