{"id":4579,"date":"2019-03-14T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T11:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/spu\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T16:17:14","slug":"spus-dr-marga-stander-tackles-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spus-dr-marga-stander-tackles-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"SPU&#8217;S Dr Marga Stander tackles plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/3alhPlH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Marga Stander<\/a> of the School of Humanities recently had a research article published in the Journal of Further and Higher Education.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Entitled, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/0309877X.2018.1526260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strategies to help university students avoid plagiarism: a focus on translation as an intervention strategy<\/a>\u201d, the article focuses on the importance of not overlooking the issue of plagiarism in an academic setting and create an awareness of plagiarism avoidance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Creating this awareness of plagiarism avoidance among students may be achievable and teaching students certain skills to avoid plagiarism, like paraphrasing, may also be possible.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although paraphrasing is one of the most important skills for avoiding plagiarism, it is a real challenge, particularly for English second language students. Difficulties in paraphrasing arise from lack of English language proficiency and academic writing skills as well as low reading comprehension.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Writing centres were established at a number of universities in South Africa to help students develop their academic skills through appropriate interventions. Nevertheless, additional intervention strategies need to be implemented to help them avoid plagiarism.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such intervention, in the form of translation, was investigated at a rural university campus to test whether translation would reduce plagiarism amongst first-year students.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quantitative research approach was used to collect and analyse the data. Plagiarism in students\u2019 work was detected using manual evaluations and the TurnitinTM application.&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An intervention was carried out to develop students\u2019 skills in paraphrasing and inform them about plagiarism.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article describes the scaffolding process followed and reports on the results found after applying the translation method.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Marga Stander of the School of Humanities recently had a research article published in the Journal of Further and Higher Education. Entitled, \u201cStrategies to help university students avoid plagiarism: a focus on translation as an intervention strategy\u201d, the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/spus-dr-marga-stander-tackles-plagiarism\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,4],"tags":[60,63],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-humanities-news","category-news","tag-dr-marga-stander","tag-journal-of-further-and-higher-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7828,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions\/7828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}