A Forensic Linguistic Study of Plagiarism in Iraqi M.A. Theses Writing in English
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Forensic linguistic , Plagiarism , Verbatim , Quasi-verbatim, ParaphraseAbstract
Forensic linguistics is the scientific study of language in forensic contexts and for forensic purposes. It involves analyzing language used in various legal contexts. Forensic linguistics provides a scientific approach to detecting and analyzing plagiarism, which is essential for maintaining academic integrit. In academic writing there are many M.A. students commit plagiarism practices in writing their theses. Plagiarism is a cancer that erodes academic integrity from the ground up. It has witnessed a great interest at the present time due to its great spread among students. There are many factors that help in this, including the student’s ignorance of correct documentation, as well as the method of academic writing. This study sheds the light on plagiarism practices among Iraqi M.A. students in forensic linguistic perspective. This study aims to find firstly the types of plagiarism practices among Iraqi M.A. students, secondly the most used type of plagiarism practices among Iraqi M.A. students and the last aim is to find the less used plagiarism practices among M.A. students. The researcher selected 10 Iraqi theses from University of Wasit .To achieve these aims the researcher adapts a model for analyzing the selected data according to Pecorari (2008) view about paraphrasing practices, Coulthard and Johnson (2007) view about verbatim plagiarism and Mozgovoy (2008) with his view about Quasi-verbatim plagiarism. The researcher needs mixed method to get the aims of this study. After analyzing data, this study has found that the types of plagiarism practices that used by M.A. students are paraphrasing , verbatim plagiarism and quasi-verbatim plagiarism. The study also showed that the most used types of plagiarism practices are practices of paraphrasing and verbatim plagiarism. The study also showed that the less used type of plagiarism practices among M.A. students is quasi-verbatim plagiarism
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