Africa Centre for HIV/Aids Management: How to find information for your research

"Plagiarism is the theft and use of the ideas, material and other intellectual property of others that are passed off as one’s own." SU Senate. 1 Dec 2016.
To avoid plagiarising someone else's words or ideas, make sure you:

Paraphrase the original text into your own words. Be sure you are not just rearranging phrases or replacing a couple of words.
Use quotation marks around text that has been taken directly from the original source.
Cite every source of information you use to write your paper unless it is common knowledge or the results of your own research. This includes facts, figures, and statistics as well as opinions and arguments.

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This Guide contains:
Sources on referencing
Layout of bibliographic records (rules)
A-Z list of examples

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