ABSTRACT
This chapter considers plagiarism from the second angle, a wide angle shot of documentation across different genres, to demonstrate how the concept shifts depending on the writing context. Using a genre approach, Jameson provides important insights into what constitutes plagiarism in different textual genres. She takes different genres, such as the novel, the news article, speeches and the business report, and shows how variable the notion of plagiarism is across these contexts, writing that what would constitute culpable plagiarism in one context might constitute proper use of sources in another context depending on the group whose expectations defined 'misappropriation'. The chapter explores that the amount and kind of documentation required differs widely across journals. A glance at the average article from the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and that from the English Language Teaching (ELT) Journal will confirm this.
