Interesting problem, Stephanie! There is so much out there that is
already written, so it's difficult to find somewhere where you might fit
in! I like your idea about "discipline specific teaching of citation
practices". You might do a study comparing the teaching of citation
practices in a social science course, say, and a science course. How is
it taught? what are the parameters of plagiarism? what are the
expectations of the students? Michelle Cox at Bridgewater State College
did her dissertation on plagiarism in clinical reporting in the health
sciences and found very different expectations about borrowing others'
words in her research. I can put you in touch with her if you like.
Theresa.
Stephanie Bell wrote:
> Hello all and happy Friday,
>
> I'm a PhD student in composition theory & pedagogy working under the
> supervision of Dr. Catherine Schryer at the University of Waterloo. I've
> recently completed my field exams and have moved on to transforming my pile
> of previous grant proposals into a viable (and, ideally, useful)
> dissertation project on some aspect of citation practices and/or academic
> misconduct. Thus far, I haven't been very successful.
>
> Since I'm not getting particularly far with the invention stage of my
> dissertation on my own, I've decided to seek input on the gaps in the field
> of citation/misconduct that (writing) instructors would be interested in
> having filled.
>
> My current interest (and work at WLU's Writing Centre) is in teaching the
> complex citation practices involved in an author's critical engagement with
> source material as a means of facilitating student access to academic
> discursive communities as well as preventing student misconduct.
>
> I am open to *any* project ideas regarding any aspect of citation and/or
> misconduct. I've been mulling over possible projects on citation from the
> following perspectives:
>
> - Student enculturation/community membership
> - Assignment design
> - Course design – specifically writing-intensive course design
> - Discipline-specific citation practices (i.e., Hyland, 2000)
> - Policy & institutional frameworks for dealing with plagiarism (i.e.,
> Price; Howard; Park)
> - Current approaches to teaching citation (i.e., content courses,
> bibliography courses, writing-intensive programs, texts like Graff,
> Birkenstein, Durst's They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic
> Writing)
> - Theories of idea ownership and language (Foucault; Bloom, 1973;
> Volosinov; Bakhtin)
> - The history of citation practices (Ong, 1982 (although it's not the
> focus, it does touch upon practices of repetition and formula as mnemonic
> devices in oral cultures); Macfarlane, 2007)
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Stephanie
>
>
>
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