El proceso formativo de citación y las necesidades del alumnado universitario

In higher education, a considerable number of objectives and tasks need to be exceeded in order to achieve the competences of each degree and not all students achieve this goal with academic rigor, being Plagiarism a resource used in academic work, hence the importance of this phenomenon and the need to take measures that can eradicate this type of action.  In this paper, using a qualitative methodology and based on the answers of university students to the question on how to avoid plagiarism, an attempt was made to understand the importance that students attach to plagiarism and how they conceptualize it, from the analysis and interpretation of the answers to: the importance of the training process in citation for them, who should be responsible for that training, where and when such training actions should be carried out, how the training process should be developed and the reasons why this training is essential to the students\u0027 lives. The results indicate that students consider that a good training in citation becomes a key tool that should be used to avoid plagiarism in university classrooms.