Assignment:
McEwan argues that student success at university level is partly dependent on narrowing the difference between student and staff expectations. This is particularly important now that the student body includes an increasing proportion of international students, who may take longer to adapt to the university culture. The same is also true of the increasingly diverse university staff, who oen come from very different academic cultures.
The two most significant findings of the study concerned plagiarism and essay focus. In both cases there was a substantial difference between staff and student opinion. While all the students claimed to understand the meaning of plagiarism, a majority of tears (over 60%) felt that they didn't. Similarly, nearly all the students claimed to focus on answering the question in the essay title, but only one-fih of the teaers thought that they did.
1 - please summary of the main point, including a citation.
2- Introduce a quotation to show the key point, referring to the source.
3- Combine the summary and the quotation, again anowledging the source.