Much of the current literature on plagiarism focuses on students, attempting to understand how students view the concept of plagiarism, the best ways to prevent it, and the impact of collaboration on the concept of original authorship. In this article, we look at the role of plagiarism in 761 conference abstracts written by graduate students, early-to late-career faculty, and industry representatives, representing institutions from nearly 70 countries. These abstracts were submitted for participation in an international conference focused on the liberal arts hosted by our institution over the past four years. This study analyzes the corpus for patterns of plagiarism among professional academic writers. Our findings indicate that, while other demographic categories were not consistent indicators of text-matching, full professors were the most prevalent group to produce self-plagiarized abstracts. Overall, our study illuminates the significance of power dynamics in conferences' efforts to maintain academic integrity.

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Writing is the most important means of communication in the engineering field. Although understanding the content of an engineering discipline is very important, engineers become much more appreciated if they know how to convey their expertise to a variety of audiences. This paper reports on a collaboration between a writing professor and Engineering Enrichment Program at an international branch campus in the Middle East. Over the course of three semesters, a technical and business writing course was redesigned by integrating prototyping, collaboration, and entrepreneurship skills.

This paper provides a detailed insight into the Arab culture, specifically, the perceptions of Qatari culture on women in engineering. The Qatari culture greatly discourage and limit females from entering engineering fields, which is mainly due to Qatari's culture mentality. In addition, this paper will show how the socio-cultural factors in Qatar plays a main role in hindering females from pursuing engineering. The three main factors are gender roles, female education, female in mixed workplace. These factors unfortunately depriving women from their rights of independence, education, and choice of career.