Liying Cheng, Queens University – “Since 2000 after [sic] Liying joined Queen’s Faculty of Education, she has obtained research funding totalling more than 1.7 million Canadian dollars. In addition, she has conducted more than 220 conference presentations and has more than 140 publications. Her recent books are Assessment in the Language Classroom: Teachers Supporting Student Learning (co-authored with J. Fox, 2017); Language classroom assessment (single-authored, TESOL, Inc., 2013)” https://educ.queensu.ca/liying-cheng Last accessed 12/2019
From Liying Cheng’s Hong Kong University Phd (1997):
Samples of Cheng’s plagiarizations.
Note:
- Cheng plagiarized at least 20 different sources
- Cheng plagiarized at least 75 times, but there are many more plagiarizations in her work. Pages 1-72 of her 400+ page PhD, and selections of mostly sole-authored publications were reviewed, .
- Cheng’s 1997 PhD was extensively plagiarized. Her plagiarizing others in her papers continued until 2017, if not later
- Cheng’s plagiarizations were found in a range of publications including journal articles, books, encyclopedia entries, and book chapters
- Cheng’s PhD was the largest document reviewed and contained the most plagiarizations
- Cheng also extensively self-plagiarized and patch wrote her papers
Addendum:
As guest editor for a special issue of TESL Canada Journal , Cheng copies and pastes abstracts from the issue’s articles into her introduction. She also copies parts of the introduction and pastes them into an article in a different journal, or vice versa. Note that the citations in the original article from other authors are not included in Cheng’s copy. This patch writing is common in her work.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18806/tesl.v32i0.1214
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