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ERIC Number: EJ1064742
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 13
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-2938
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Back Translation: An Emerging Sophisticated Cyber Strategy to Subvert Advances in "Digital Age" Plagiarism Detection and Prevention
Jones, Michael; Sheridan, Lynnaire
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, v40 n5 p712-724 2015
Advances have been made in detecting and deterring the student plagiarism that has accompanied the uptake and development of the internet. Many authors from the late 1990s onwards grappled with plagiarism in the digital age, presenting articles that were provoking and established the foundation for strategies to address cyber plagiarism, including software such as Turnitin™. In the spirit of its predecessors, this article presents a new, less-detectable method of cyber-facilitated plagiarism known as "back translation", where students are running text through language translation software to disguise the original source. This paper discusses how this plagiarism strategy attempts to subvert academic attempts to detect plagiarism and maintain academic integrity in the digital age, before presenting useful detection tools and then critiquing three classroom plagiarism management approaches for their usefulness in the current digital and educational context.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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