Stephanie
Graham's post put into words the idea that was eluding me. I think his idea
is an excellent one as far as engineering is concerned. Professional
practice is much more "lax" regarding sources of ideas than academe. It
would be valuable to the profession and the education system to understand
those differences. This is particularly interesting with Engineering
consulting where the companies have a concern to actually display that
"they" have the idea.
Rob Irish
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Stephanie and all,
Teresa's post gave me an idea. One interesting project might be to look at a
couple of disciplines in both their academic and professional dimensions.
So, for example, one could look at citation practices in engineering
university courses and in an engineering firm; in university accounting
courses and an accounting firm; or in university biology classes and in a
government natural resources unit. In a way, I guess, this idea follows on
Dias, Freedman, Medway, and Paré's _Worlds Apart_. Another variation on
this theme might be to look at disciplinary citation practices for students
(in coursework) and faculty (in academic publications) in a couple of
different disciplines.
Graham
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From: "Dr. Theresa Hyland" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Dissertation Woes
> 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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