Plagiarism in five universities in Mozambique: Magnitude, detection techniques, and control measures

International Journal for Educational Integrity

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Coughlin, Peter E ^a  

^a EconPolicy Research Group Ltd   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Academic fraud; Academic integrity; Cheating; Honour code; Mozambique; Paraphrase; Plagiarism; Plagiarism detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015053431     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18332595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40979-015-0003-5     Document Type: Article

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