Student beliefs and attitudes about authorial identity in academic writing
Journal article
Authors | Pittam, Gail, Elander, James, Lusher, Joanne, Fox, Pauline and Payne, Nicola |
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Abstract | Studies of university students' beliefs and attitudes about academic writing and authorship |
Authorial identity is the sense a writer has of themselves as an author and the textual identity they construct in their writing. This article describes two studies exploring psychology students’ authorial identity in academic writing. A qualitative focus group study with 19 students showed that authorial identity was largely unfamiliar to students, and highlighted the obstacles perceived by students to constructing authorial identities in university assignments. A questionnaire survey of 318 students explored the factor structure of an 18-item Student Authorship Questionnaire. Three factors described aspects of student authorial identity (‘confidence in writing’, ‘understanding authorship’ and ‘knowledge to avoid plagiarism’), and three factors described approaches to writing (‘top-down’, ‘bottom-up’ and ‘pragmatic’). Confidence in writing and knowledge to avoid plagiarism were significantly higher among year 2 than year 1 students. Both studies could inform interventions to reduce unintentional plagiarism by improving students’ authorial identity. | |
Authorial identity is the sense a writer has of themselves as an author and the | |
Keywords | Academic writing; Authorial identity; Plagiarism |
Year | 2009 |
Journal | Studies in Higher Education |
ISSN | 0307-5079 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070802528270 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/192714 |
hdl:10545/192714 | |
Publication dates | Nov 2009 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 01 Dec 2011, 09:25 |
Contributors | University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9414y/student-beliefs-and-attitudes-about-authorial-identity-in-academic-writing
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