IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Jan 2002

Literature reviews in student project reports

L.A. Krishnan ; S.S. Kathpalia

Abstract

Writing project reports is an important part of the engineering curriculum at Singapore universities. One important section of the formal report is the literature review. Most universities around the world provide guidelines on writing reviews, emphasizing that plagiarism is unethical. However, these guidelines do not offer explicit training on how to avoid plagiarism. In order to write academically acceptable reviews while avoiding copying from source materials, students face a major challenge and resort to employing various strategies to cope with the task. In this study, we examined the literature review sections of final year project reports to find out how engineering undergraduates in a Singapore university cope with writing reviews and to suggest ways in which they can extend their skills to improve their literature reviews.

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IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
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2002-01-01
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10.1109/tpc.2002.801637
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