Resumen

CASTRO AZUARA, María Cristina  y  SANCHEZ CAMARGO, Martín. The use of citation and reference resources in the writing of postgraduate theses and its relationship with textual plagiarism. Diálogos sobre educ. Temas actuales en investig. educ. [online]. 2021, vol.12, n.23, 00016.  Epub 06-Dic-2021. ISSN 2007-2171.  https://doi.org/10.32870/dse.v0i23.952.

The increase in cases of plagiarism in the academic and scientific world and the need for universities to guarantee the quality and originality of their graduate´s theses force us to pay attention to the processes of teaching academic-scientific writing. Based on the linguistic discourse analysis, we describe the knowledge attribution resources used by masters’ degree students in the humanities when writing their theses. Our exploratory study seeks to show the strategies that students use to generate their own texts using disciplinary knowledge taken from other sources. The results show that thesis writers have trouble identifying the different functions that citations and references fulfill in the construction of academic and scientific dialogue, which places them at great risk of committing plagiarism. These findings lead us to reflect on the issue of academic writing in the university, and the need to propose intervention plans that address plagiarism as a phenomenon related to the use of language and allow students in these programs to generate their own texts.

Palabras llave : plagiarism; academic writing; thesis; knowledge attribution.