Citation Practices in selected science and humanities dissertations: implications for teaching

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dc.contributor.authorMaroko, Geoffrey Mokua
dc.date.accessioned2018-02-20T09:38:58Z
dc.date.available2018-02-20T09:38:58Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.descriptionResearch paperen_US
dc.description.abstractThe citation feature provides justification for arguments and demonstrates the novelty of one’s position in research writing. It shows how a piece of research arises out of, and is grounded in the current state of disciplinary knowledge. As such, research supervisors encourage the candidates under their guidance to make citations especially when writing literature reviews and discussion sections of their dissertations. This requirement plunges many a student in confusion on how to go about this integral undertaking without written citation norms in their disciplines. The question that emerges is: On which benchmarks should dissertation writers base their citations when writing dissertations in their disciplines? Put in other words, on which benchmarks should research supervisors base their judgement on the quality of citations in their students’ dissertations? The aim of this paper therefore is to uncover citation practices in selected Humanities and Science dissertations from Kenyan public universities. The paper analyses the citation types and reporting verbs of choice employed in Humanities dissertations and compares them with those in the Science dissertations. Consequently, the paper proposes a set of citation norms that can inform the writing of the Humanities and Sciences dissertation and suggests a genre-based approach for raising students’ consciousness to the citation norms during the drafting stage of their dissertations.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipKenyatta Universityen_US
dc.identifier.citationAmerican Journal of Educational Research, 2013, Vol. 1, No. 4, 126-136en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/18218
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherScience and Education Publishingen_US
dc.titleCitation Practices in selected science and humanities dissertations: implications for teachingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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