Plagiarism at tertiary institutions: perceptions of lecturers at the UFS campuses
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Date
2006
Authors
Coetzee, Mercia
Breytenbach, H. J.
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Department of Communication Science, University of the Free State
Abstract
Plagiarism has increased alarmingly on campuses world-wide. The Internet has largely
contributed to this problem. Students are able to download complete art i c l e s ,
assignments and essays from the WWW and present it as their own original work.
Students also copy sections of articles and paste it into their assignments or
dissertations without acknowledging sources. Additional pressure is placed on lecturers
to trace the sources from which the work was copied. World-wide research has
indicated that plagiarism occurs on nearly all campuses and that students are
increasingly guilty of committing plagiarism. Electronic programmes for the detection
of plagiarism are already in use on many European and American campuses, while only
few South African universities utilise this facility. This study was undertaken to
investigate the opinions of lecturers regarding the extent of plagiarism on the campuses
of the University of the Free State. The prevalence of plagiarism, sources from which
were plagiarised, and resultant steps that should be taken according to lecturers, were
investigated.
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Keywords
Plagiarism, Students, University of the Free State, Tertiary institutions
Citation
Coetzee, M., & Breytenbach, H. J. (2006). Plagiarism at tertiary institutions: perceptions of lecturers at the UFS campuses. Communitas, 11, 37-51.