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    Micro-level policies and practices regarding plagiarism in advanced reading and writing courses in Turkey
    (Peter Lang AG, 2019) Erarslan, Ali; Zehir Topkaya, Ece
    A growing body of literature shows that plagiarism has become widespread student behaviour at tertiary level. Here, we report on a small-scale qualitative research study regarding academics' individual policies against plagiarism and their gate-keeping practices and behaviour in a year-long, compulsory "Advanced Reading and Writing" course at pre-service English language teacher course in Turkey. Five academics from five different universities participated in the study. The data were collected via document analysis and an online survey and submitted to inductive content analysis. The document analysis of the course syllabi revealed that there are no plagiarism statements, warnings or possible repercussions of unethical conduct, or an explicit section allotted to Academic Integrity as part of the content. As for the findings of the survey study, three major themes were identified: awareness on plagiarism, individual policies, and departmental awareness and policies. The findings indicate that the academics have a similar understanding of plagiarism and they pay attention to it. However, they have different practices in terms of detecting and preventing plagiarism due to not having similarity-detection software, the high number of students taking the course, and lack of institutional/departmental awareness. Finally, there are no departmental written policies or guidelines to prevent or manage academic misconduct. Thus, institutional, departmental and individual policies need to be clarified to make students aware of this issue and avoid it. © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2018. All rights reserved.