A Tutor-Led Collaborative Modelling Approach to Teaching Paraphrasing to International Graduate Students

Language learners are at particular risk of being accused of plagiarism, and this is often due to incorrect paraphrasing and quoting practices. Tertiary institutions tend to provide rudimentary citation resources through their academic integrity initiatives. Handouts, webinars and one-hour workshops may be enough for undergraduate writers who receive more elaborate instruction and practice opportunities in their classes, but for international graduate students with little to no instruction on source use in their undergraduate degrees, these resources are not enough. These writers often need more conceptual and procedural clarity to paraphrase and use sourced information correctly in their writing. This article introduces a student-centred, collaborative modelling approach and a 5-step procedure for teaching paraphrasing to multilingual graduate students in one-to-one writing center tutoring sessions.

Improving Construction Supply Chains through Collaborative Modelling, a case of South Africa

This chapter report on some of the challenges faced and successes achieved during the construction of the recently completed Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) headquarters in South Africa. Qualitative interviews where conducts with five (5) professionals which were part of the construction supply chain team that completed the DEA project in South Africa. Findings summary were that the South African construction industry exists in a very dynamic and volatile environment with common challenges as evident in other countries. This challenge, necessitates the use of collaborative means of managing the various phases of the supply chain. It was also found that the use of collaborative models such as Public Private Partnership (PPP) can prove rewarding when stakeholders involved in a project have an understanding of the model and its dynamics. This chapter contributes to the use of PPP collaborative models in construction project delivery in South Africa.