Propositional Versus Encyclopedic Epistemology and Unintentional Plagiarism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6451936 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erhan Şimşek (0000-0002-0473-7910, University of Duisburg-Essen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 517-531 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Epistemology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0269-1728 • E-ISSN: 1464-5297 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02691728.2023.2300807 |
| OpenAlex | W4390697954 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Unintentional plagiarism abounds at universities. The literature offers several explanations for students' difficulties with acquiring standards of good academic practice. In this paper, I propose an alternative account: unintentional plagiarism can only be understood in the context of implicit but irreconcilable forms of knowledge. While higher education institutions mainly operate within the framework of propositional epistemology, institutions of primary and secondary education tend to furnish students with encyclopedic epistemology. Accordingly, universities and institutions of pre-college education tend to propagate conflicting assumptions regarding the nature of knowledge. Put simply, propositional epistemology is characterized by dialogue, agency and the exchange of ideas, which are ideally made explicit in academic writing. By contrast, encyclopedic epistemology tends to present knowledge monologically, leaving the scholarly conversation around it out. It is highly likely that the hardwired legacy of encyclopedic epistemology among students impedes the acquisition of the dialogism of academic inquiry at universities, resulting in cases of unintentional plagiarism
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Conversation · Epistemology · Epistemology of Wikipedia · Higher education · Linguistics · Political science · Social epistemology · Sociology · Academic integrity and plagiarism · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Wikis in Education and Collaboration
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Designing an Expert-Setting for Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Plagiarism and the commodification of knowledge
Evaluation of an intervention to help students avoid unintentional plagiarism by improving their authorial identity
The ethics and politics of policing plagiarism
Beyond the accusation of plagiarism
Plagiarism in second-language writing
A Third Conception of Epistemic Injustice
Philosophical roots of argumentative writing in higher education
Student beliefs and attitudes about authorial identity in academic writing
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |