%0 Journal Article %T Profiling Potential Plagiarizers: A Mastery Learning Instructional Technique to Enhance Competency %A Dale Cyphert %A Sarah Rosol %J Business and Professional Communication Quarterly %@ 2329-4922 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/2329490618768027 %X Despite university policies and classroom procedures designed to deter student plagiarism, upper-division students seemed to be violating the rules in growing numbers. Recent research suggested that student plagiarism results from a complex mix of factors, including a need for instruction, but offers little guidance regarding effective teaching methodologies. The authors developed and tested an instructional protocol and concluded that a mastery learning approach provides an effective method for reducing student plagiarism %K plagiarism %K writing pedagogy %K mastery learning %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329490618768027