Table 4 Professors’ expectations of their students’ writing skills
From: Are Canadian professors teaching the skills and knowledge students need to prevent plagiarism?
As a professor or lecturer, I expect undergraduate students to have sufficiently developed their writing skills (writing, correcting, editing, citing and paraphrasing) during their pre-university studies to be functional at the university. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Â | Frequency | Percentage |
Completely disagree | 3 | 1,1 |
Mostly disagree | 9 | 3,2 |
Slightly disagree | 5 | 1,8 |
Neutral | 2 | 0,7 |
Slightly agree | 36 | 12,9 |
Mostly agree | 98 | 35,1 |
Completely agree | 126 | 45,2 |
Total | 279 | 100,0 |