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. | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |