How to cite, reference & avoid plagiarising at university Is there a secret to successful study? The answer is ‘yes’! There are some essential skills and smart strategies that will help you to improve your results at university. This easy-to-use guide helps to develop the essential academic skills of writing and thinking needed to cite and reference with confidence in your academic studies. Plagiarism and the most common methods of quoting, summarising and paraphrasing are explained and modelled throughout the book. HOW TO CITE, REFERENCE & AVOID PLAGIARISM AT UNIVERSITY provides tips, tools and techniques you will need to perform with excellence, including how to: · understand the importance of correct citation and referencing in academic writing · be aware of the facts about plagiarism and how it can be identified and avoided · search for and evaluate sources from the literature · introduce the work of others into your own text · understand and use the five most common citation and referencing styles. Visit www.smarterstudyskills.com to access a wealth of useful information, tips, templates and interactive activities that will support your skills development.
Author(s): Dr Kathleen McMillan; Dr Jonathan Weyers
Publisher: Pearson Higher Ed
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 200
Front Cover
How to Cite, Reference & Avoid Plagiarism at University
Contents
Preface and acknowledgements
How to use this book
IntroductIon
The importance of correct citation and referencing – how to understand the conventions of academic writing
Key concepts of citation, referencing and plagiarism
Facts about plagiarism – how this form of academic
dishonesty occurs and how it can be identified
Misconceptions about plagiarism – how to recognise
inappropriate use of the work of others
Basics of literature searching – how to be aware of the
sources of literature
Understanding the structure of text – how to elicit meaning
in material for potential citation
Principles and techniques for reporting source material –
how to introduce the work of others into your own text
Quoting from source material – how to use extracts from
other texts correctly
Summarising and paraphrasing – how to use your own
words to express the work of others
A case study of citing and referencing
A sample text to demonstrate citation conventions in
practice – how to complete the process from initial
brainstorm to final text
Conventions and terminology of citation and referencing
Different practices in citation and referencing – how to
observe linguistic, grammatical and notational forms
Five referencing styles
American Psychological Association (APA) Style
Chicago Style
Harvard Style
Modern Languages Association (MLA) Style
Vancouver Style
Appendices
Appendix 1 Grammar Toolkit – definitions to help you seek more
information
Appendix 2 Twelve common grammar errors
Appendix 3 Rules of punctuation – usage for citing and referencing
Appendix 4 Twenty basic spelling rules
List of references
Glossary
