SANRC FYE Presentations 2017

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DoBM context
• 1st year Business Management students
• Under-resourced post-matrics
• Generally they encounter difficulty with
academic writing:
– Overall poor writing skills (e.g. grammar & spelling)
– Lack of structuring skills
– ‘Hard’ plagiarism – direct copy & paste
– ‘Soft’ plagiarism – intermittent ( . . . )
– Poor referencing abilities