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Franklyn-Stokes and Newstead (1995) found that 64 per cent of students questioned reported they had copied work with knowledge, while 66 per cent paraphrased without references and 54 per cent copied without using references.
In 2003, I asked 64 third-year diploma and ten degree nursing students I was teaching about plagiarism. Fifty per cent of the diploma students and 30 per cent of the degree students said they had at some stage intentionally or unintentionally paraphrased material in an assignment without referencing the source. Twenty per cent of the diploma students said they had intentionally or unintentionally copied material directly into an assignment without referencing the source, but none of the degree students said they had.
This enquiry was impromptu and not rigorous, which may account for the degree students' responses to the second question. Even so, that the students were willing to acknowledge they had plagiarised should alert us to the fact that nursing students are no different to other students when it comes to plagiarism. A proper study would be useful to gauge the extent of the problem in nursing education. Should a student who has plagiarised be awarded grades or given a professional qualification achieved partially or wholly from the work of others?
Ryan (1998) reports that reference to non-existent books or articles is commonplace in the US. In almost 30 years of teaching I have only once been aware of the inclusion in an essay of a non-existent reference source. I discovered the student's invention of the fictional author because the citation was so interesting that I tried to locate the original article. I realised, after fruitless searches, that the quotation that seemed so noteworthy had been made up and no such article existed. While this may not be plagiarism in strict terms, the false reference was included by the student with the intention to deceive.
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