📋 Checklist: How to Make Sure Your Work is Free from Plagiarism

🔗 Referencing Sources

• ☐ I have credited the author when using someone else’s ideas, conclusions, tables, diagrams, or images.
• ☐ I only omit references when it’s common knowledge or my own opinion.

❝ Quotations

• ☐ When I use exact words from a source, I put them in quotation marks and provide a reference.
• ☐ I only use quotes when they are truly necessary.
• ☐ Long quotations (over 6 lines) are formatted as a separate block.

✍️ Paraphrasing

• ☐ When I paraphrase, I use my own words and sentence structure.
• ☐ Even when paraphrasing, I still credit the author and the source.

🧠 My Ideas vs. Others’

• ☐ In my notes, I clearly distinguish between my own thoughts, quotations, and paraphrased material.
• ☐ I always indicate when something is not my original idea.

📚 Correct Referencing Style

• ☐ I know which referencing style I am using (e.g., APA, MLA, Chicago, or national standard).
• ☐ All sources are mentioned in the text and included in the bibliography at the end of the work.

🚫 What I Did Not Do

• ☐ I did not buy or outsource my work to someone else.
• ☐ I did not use AI or automatic text-generation tools.
• ☐ I did not copy-paste text from the internet without proper citation.

🔍 Analysis and Independence

• ☐ All analyses, graphs, and interpretations were done by me, or I indicated who helped.
• ☐ If this section is graded individually, I completed it on my own.

📝 Declaration

• ☐ I included a declaration of academic integrity in my work.