Violations Beyond Words: Misappropriation of Graduate Students' Works

• In Event: It's a Hard Doc Life

Abstract

The research is bereft of dialogue about the socialization and power dimensions associated with plagiarism that occurs by faculty members who misappropriate works of their students. The purpose of this study is to expand the inquiry of perceived academic misconduct by investigating the lived experiences of graduate students who reported a professor’s misattribution of their work and their navigation of the academic system in light of the power differential. Drawing on a combined socialization and power framework, this study employs an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The findings of the study indicate a multi-stage experience from academic euphoria to dysphoria and leading eventually to academic victimization that extend beyond the loss of words from the misattributed paper.

Authors

• Kimberly Becker, University of North Dakota

• Jeffrey C. Sun, University of Louisville