A group of overseas and local academics discussed measures to counter the rampant practice of plagiarism among university students at a workshop this week.
Organised by Shue Yan University, the workshop, Combating Plagiarism in a Globalised Higher Education Environment: An International Perspective, explored why students plagiarise and measures to combat the problem.
Don McCabe, a business professor [...]
International students may be called plagiarists because of flawed thinking and naive use of software, says Niall Hayes.
If the new forms of detection software are to be believed, a sizeable proportion of students are plagiarists – and the worst culprits are international students.
But when does poor referencing and an inability to better phrase an original [...]
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