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Often students plagiarise because they don’t understand how to write in an academic setting. Contimis Works/Shutterstock

March 19, 2019

Universities must stop relying on software to deal with plagiarism

Amanda Mphahlele, University of Johannesburg and Sioux McKenna, Rhodes University

These programmes allow institutions to claim they’re doing something without really tackling the issues that lead students to plagiarise.

For every student who knowingly steals other people’s words and ideas, there are 10 who are not trying to be dishonest. From www.shutterstock.com

July 31, 2015

Policing plagiarism could make universities miss the real problems

Sioux McKenna, Rhodes University and Amanda Mphahlele, University of Johannesburg

For every student who intentionally steals others’ work and passes it off as her own, there are ten who don’t yet know how to build academic knowledge. They need our help, not condemnation.

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