Text-based plagiarism in scientific writing: what Chinese supervisors think about copying and how to reduce it in students' writing.

David Williams, Editor-in-Chief of Biomaterials , recently raised concerns over “plagiarism with respect to the language of manuscripts” and pointed out that although stealing of science and data has been rare, “the misappropriation of language from other authors” is a “quite significant trend” (Williams 2007 , p. 2535).

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