Text transformation categories
The categories for the text transformations developed in the pilot study combined
ideas applied in plagiarism and reading-to-write studies (Sormunen and Lehtiö
2011). The framework was very simple and merged two variables, the degree of
paraphrasing and the degree of synthesis, into one-dimensional scale. The
framework proposed here consists of six dimensions (variables). Four variables are
related to the use of sources, one to the type of sentence written and one to the
type of sources used. The dimensions are the following (sources which informed
the development of categories are mentioned in parentheses):