Writing your Dissertation / Thesis

Each research project, therefore also your final paper and thesis, must be the result of your personal contribution. In order to comply with copyright provisions and to avoid plagiarism, you are required to document and correctly cite all the sources used for your research work.

Plagiarism is attributing to oneself the ideas or the work of other people.

Here are some examples of unacceptable practices:

• quoting opinions or ideas without indicating the original author
• copying parts of books, magazines, web pages or other sources, without mentioning the source and without putting them in quotation marks
• writing a text in collaboration with others, or having others write a text, and then attributing the text only to oneself
• pretend that you have read a source 

Bocconi University pays particular attention to the originality of theses and the final papers. For this reason, the University has adopted an anti-plagiarism software that detects any copyright violations within the text of these and final papers.

To learn more, you can read the sections dedicated to the Honor Code on Bocconi website and the page on copyright on the Library website.