Tackling plagiarism at university level

Abstract

In a survey among teaching staff and academic administrators at a South African university, Kuttickattu John Mammen and Thenjiwe Meyiwa looked at steps to avoid plagiarism, training to detect academic cheating and perceptions on plagiarism among students.There is a general perception that plagiarism the practice of including someone else's work in academic writing without acknowledging the authorship is on the rise, causing disquiet about academic cheating.