Table 2 Descriptive Statistics for Strategies Used by the Students in Their Syntheses

Copying without quotation marks

0

14

1.93

3.40

Copying with quotation marks

0

12

3.41

3.41

Patchwriting

0

15

2.43

3.43

Paraphrasing

0

5

0.59

1.28

Summarizing

0

9

1.93

2.81

Changing the meaning through a paraphrasing strategy

0

6

0.50

1.25

Changing the meaning slightly through summary

0

6

1.57

1.65

Changing the meaning substantially through summary

0

8

1.95

2.47