How to avoid plagiarism? What resources are there to prevent it?

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To avoid plagiarism, you should:

• Always note explicitly the complete reference to the source from which you are drawing elements (extracts of text or ideas, arguments, analyses, etc.), according to the referencing rules in force in your discipline.
• Clearly indicate the extent of the borrowing (notably through using appropriate typographic procedures: quotation marks, etc.) from any text – including those found on the internet – that you wish to insert into your own text.

Do not hesitate to use the various resources which are available:

Faculty resources to gain a better of understanding of the modalities
and demands specific to your discipline

They can take various forms: the advice and directives of your supervisor, methodology courses/seminars or specific documents, resources within libraries, etc. Consult the ‘tool box’ offered to you by your Faculty:

• Faculty of Philosophy and Letters
• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Sciences
• Faculty of Medicine 
• Faculty of Applied Sciences
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• Faculty of Psychology and Education
• HEC-ULg Management School
• Institute for Human and Social Sciences
• Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
• Faculty of Architecture

General resources at the ULg

• The seminar ‘Le mémoire en quatre étapes’ (The dissertation in four stages): to offer you guidance and support, four themed sessions are organised: choosing a subject, defining a methodology (working hypotheses, gathering data, etc.), writing (introduction, conclusion, bibliography, etc.) and defending the work orally.

• The brochure ‘Plagiarism? Not for me!’

Resources elsewhere

Consult the bibliography for information related to plagiarism.