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LibGuides: Referencing & Avoiding Plagiarism: Which Referencing Style?

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Joining the Scholarly Conversation

Referencing is sometimes called Joining the Scholarly Conversation.

Just like joining a regular conversation, you need to take note of who is speaking and what is being said before you can take part.

Referencing can be challenging, but it a hugely important and valuable skill to learn. If you develop good practices, referencing will start to come easier to you.

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LibGuides: Referencing & Avoiding Plagiarism: What's Referencing?

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LibGuides: Referencing & Avoiding Plagiarism: Avoiding Plagiarism

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1. Language is unusually vivid, bold or inventive

2. Quotation cannot be paraphrased without distortion of meaning or loss of meaning.

3. Quotation is a graph, diagram, or table.

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Use direct quotation only when the exact words of the original are important

In papers analysing primary sources such as literary works, you will use it extensively

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Read the passage several times to understand it.

Restate in your own words and sentence structure.  Select what is relevant and restate it in your own words.

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Paraphrasing is a close summary of the author’s “original presentation,” in your own words.

Paraphrase is most useful when you want to follow an author’s thinking or reasoning without directly quoting from the text.

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1. Copying a phrase, sentence, or longer passage from a source and passing it off as your own

2. Summarising or paraphrasing someone else's ideas without acknowledging them

3. Handing in a paper you bought, had a friend write, or copied from another student

4. Submitting the same work twice (e.g. whole essay or large portions of it) for two different assignments - i.e. self-plagiarism

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Referencing Style: A structure and format you must follow when including references into your assignments and essays
Check Your Handbook: Information on the referencing style you should be using (Chicago) is in your handbook
Referencing Guide: You will find more information on your referencing style in our Referencing Guide with examples!
Be Consistent: You must learn the style, follow it and be consistent!

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Anytime you use someone else's words or ideas you must reference them.

This means:
Using quotation marks
OR
paraphrasing their idea in your own words

AND
Including an in-text citation and a detailed reference list

This makes it clear whenever an idea is not your own, clearly points out whose idea it was, and points towards your bibliography for detailed information on your sources.

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1. DO keep track of where you found information and who owns it

2. DON'T copy text without crediting the author, i.e. quoting and referencing them

3. DON'T use another’s ideas without crediting them, i.e. quoting or paraphrasing and referencing them

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Good academic practices (correct referencing!)

Avoid close paraphrasing ("quote" unless using your own words!)

Referencing & citation (see below)

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This includes all published and unpublished material - from books and articles to websites.

Plagiarism may be intentional or unintentional

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Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.