ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the development of the student writer, and in particular how referencing and plagiarism relate to that development. The problems discussed in the chapter may occur at all stages of writing development, and interact with one another, that is, they are not ordered stages of development. The chapter discusses this stage when academic discourse is 'alien', the stage of 'trying on' academic discourse, and the problem of hybridization of different discourses. It also discusses the problem of illegitimate and legitimate language and how that plays itself out in undergraduate writing, the role of the learning of chunks of language in second-language acquisition, and the very complex process of developing authorial voice in writing. The chapter explains the role of memory and formulaic language in second-language acquisition. Formulaic language is present in the speech of native speakers as well as learners of an additional language.
