What Is the Problem of Plagiarism Represented to Be? Plagiarism as Matters of Language in Higher Education Policy and Practice

• Policy on plagiarism has emerged as a powerful tool for universities to deal with a wide range of problems related to internationalisation and rapid IT developments. How do such policies conceptualise plagiarism? What kind of solutions do they promote? What consequences do they imply for higher education? Here, we scrutinise three policy documents aimed at preventing plagiarism in the Swedish context. Using a policy-as-discourse-approach and Bacchi’s (2009) analytical strategy What is the problem represented to be? (WPR), we suggest that policy on plagiarism not only places a huge and unfair responsibility for the reputation of higher education on the students. It simultaneously, and paradoxically, risks depriving them of learning important scholarly practices.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology (hsv//eng)

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