Plagiarism at tertiary institutions: perceptions of lecturers at the UFS campuses

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dc.contributor.authorCoetzee, Mercia
dc.contributor.authorBreytenbach, H. J.
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-06T09:55:28Z
dc.date.available2018-03-06T09:55:28Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.description.abstractPlagiarism 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.en_ZA
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationCoetzee, M., & Breytenbach, H. J. (2006). Plagiarism at tertiary institutions: perceptions of lecturers at the UFS campuses. Communitas, 11, 37-51.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2415-0525 (online)
dc.identifier.issn1023-0556 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/7936
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherDepartment of Communication Science, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderDepartment of Communication Science, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectPlagiarismen_ZA
dc.subjectStudentsen_ZA
dc.subjectUniversity of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectTertiary institutionsen_ZA
dc.titlePlagiarism at tertiary institutions: perceptions of lecturers at the UFS campusesen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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