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REFERENCING

Why reference?

  • Academic reasons

    • It is a requirement of the University

    • Provides supporting evidence for facts, opinions, data, approaches taken

    • Gives your work academic credibility

    • Avoid plagiarism!

    • Quote another person’s exact word

    • Copy any figures, tables or structures, pictures

  • Practical reasons

    • Allows others to easily find your sources

    • Helps you re-trace your reading in the future

    • Poor information sources and poor referencing loses marks

The name of the game of referencing

  • UNIFORMITY !!

  • The different styles lay down rules to have a uniform style of referencing

APA Style Guide

Chicago Style Guide

Harvard Style Guide

Vancouver Style Guide

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When to reference?

Plagiarism 

  

PLAGIARISM

All of the following are considered plagiarism by plagiarism.org:

  • Turning in someone else's work as your own
  • Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
  • Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
  • Giving incorrect information about a source of a quotation
  • Changing words, but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  • Copying so many words or ideas that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not
  • http://www.plagiarism.org/

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