Invigorating the UO Pedagogy Through Practice

The main research question of this book is: How to design and develop a UO pedagogy to facilitate undergraduates’ understanding of plagiarism and source use in Chinese academic writing? As this book engages the design and development of the UO pedagogy as well as its implementation and assessment, a design-based research (DBR) methodology was adopted. This book comprised three research phases (i.e., Study 1, Study 2, and Study 3), and the research findings from previous research phases provide insights for the next research phase. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected through multiple instruments, such as surveys, writing assignments, and interviews. The UO pedagogy supposedly was under continuous improvement over the three research phases. In this chapter, based on the analysis of how DBR is adopted to support the research design of this book, research findings of Study 1 and the refinement of UO pedagogy are outlined.