Finding information

Access identification

Open Athens / MyAthens

http://www.openathens.net

Apply for an account Login to MyAthens Enter Username Enter password Select resources

Reference Sources

Credo Referencehttp://www.credoreference.com

Oxford Reference Onlinehttp://www.oxfordreference.com

Contemporary issues

Essential Articles

http://www.carelpress.co.uk/EA/

Issues Onlinehttp://www.independence.co.uk/issues-online/main

Statistical sources

Fact Filehttp://ff.carelpress.co.uk/

Social Trends in Know UKhttp://www.knowuk.co.uk

http://www.knowuk.co.uk/toc.do?PubID=SOCIAL

Company Information

DataMonitor 360http://360.datamonitor.com

Key Organisationshttp://ko.carelpress.co.uk/

Problems often arise from: Non- acknowledgment, non attribution of sources Poor organisation of notes during research stage Excessive use of copy and paste (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V) Lack of understanding of referencing systems

As a result: Academic integrity weakened Academic misconduct occurs Disciplinary procedures may be applied

Research & academic writing

Copyright Legislation protects the owner of the original creative work

Permissions

check or seek permission to re-use content in projects

Reasons for copying Commercial use Non commercial use

Educational licence Some materials are licensed especially for use in education

Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org Maximises digital creativity, sharing, innovation

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What does plagiarism mean to you?

Watch the following video to discover what some other students think.

Plagiarism: student views [video & transcript]

Running time: approx. 5 min.

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/audioandvideo/assessment

Or at: http://vimeo.com/channels/154640#9230505

Plagiarism

Types of plagiarismPlagiarism takes many forms including: intentional unintentional

and may involve: collusion – getting help from others (family, friends, colleagues, etc) non reference of quotes – not accrediting the source of the quote used poor use of paraphrasing – not using quotes effectively using unacknowledged sources– cutting and pasting content without attribute submitting essay bank materials – purchasing pre-written essays time saving tactics – re-using an old essay, only changing a few words

To find out more, take a look at the following DVD available in the Library: Avoiding plagiarism [DVD] total running time approx 23 mins.

includes section Quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing (6 mins.)

Doing the right thingThere are several ways to avoid plagiarising the work of others.

Quote useful to highlight main points, support arguments made in your work place exact quote word for word in quotation marks and list source eg.

“plagiarism is a notion specific to a particular culture and epoch” (Ashworth, Freewood and Macdonald, 2003)

But - don’t use too many quotes in one piece of work

Paraphrase read quote and rephrase into your own words to give an overview it is not enough to just change one word in the quote Remember to attribute the broad ideas to the original author.

Summarize Instead of using multi quotes, take the main background ideas from each and

present an overview of them all.

More information on plagiarism is available from:

PLATO: Plagiarism teaching onlineavailable on D2L https://d2l.stevenson.ac.uk/

Student pages – Learning & Study Skills – Avoiding plagiarism/how to reference

Student pages – Preparing for University - Study skills for university – Plagiarism

Little book of plagiarism (Leeds Metropolitan University)http://www.scotlandscolleges.ac.uk/research/publications/other-publications.html

Plagiarism – additional advice

CitationsWhy list citations?•a record of the information you researched and consulted

Citation styles•Various styles including: APA, Harvard, MLA, Turabian

Adding citations to academic writing•In-text citations•End of text – list of references•Footnotes (but these not always used with Harvard system)

Type of resource cited include• book, journal article, online resources

Elements recorded in citations may include• author, year published, title, title of article/journal, page number• type of electronic resource, web address, date/place accessed

Guidelines•Some faculties may issue specific guidelines•Whatever system used, use consistently

How to make citations

PLATO: Plagiarism teaching online

available on D2L: https://d2l.stevenson.ac.uk/

Student pages: Learning & Study Skills: Avoiding plagiarism/how to reference

Harvard Reference system tutorial

Examples of how to cite electronic sources can be found on most of the online resource databases.

Citations offered may be given in a slightly different style to the one you need to use.

You may need to look for, and add, additional information to the citation to match the needs of the system you are using.

Citations examplesEbrary http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stevenson/home.action Info tools – select text, copy selected text, paste with citations

Credo Reference http://www.credoreference.com Citations listed at end of articles Styles quoted: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA

Gale databases http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/stevensc Source citations information offered at end of article Citation tools – save in various formats (MLA, APA, Plain text)

Issues Online Research help http://www.independence.co.uk/issues-online/research-help.htm

Heritage library catalogue Citation – Harvard style

Examples- continued

Oxford Reference Online http://www.oxfordreference.com The citation for each entry includes a URL which readers can use to find the

original entry and also indicates the name of the subscribing institution.

Scran How to save Scran resources

http://www.scran.ac.uk/pdfs/help/guides/How_To_Save.pdf

The John Johnson Collection How to cite sources found in the collection. Styles - MHRA, MLA

http://johnjohnson.chadwyck.co.uk/info/citing.do

Please note

We do not currently hold subscriptions to the following third party software: Endnote, Procite, Reference Manager, Refworks

Reference List

What is a reference list? Found at end of assignment A list of all sources referred to in the main body of the assignment Listed A-Z by author’s surname

What does it include? List of sources from which quotes have been taken List of sources which have been paraphrased

What does it not include? any resources used only for background reading

Bibliography

What is a bibliography? A complete list of all the resources consulted during research.

Not just a reference list.

Contains all items whether or not you referred to them in the final project

Placing bibliography in report

A report is a structured document which has several key components:

Title page, preface, contents page, summary, Introduction (SMART objectives), Findings, Conclusion, Recommendations Appendix or appendices, References, Bibliography, Index

Further reading Report writing (Loughborough University)

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/library/skills/Advice/Report%20writing.pdf

Try Library print books in non-fiction collection at 808.066 E-book How to write reports and proposals (Forsyth, 2006)

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stevenson/docDetail.action?docID=10177081

Free tools to help you organise citations and

references include:

Citavi http://www.citavi.com Cite u Like http://www.citeulike.org Connetea http://www.connotea.org EasyBib http://www.easybib.com Mendeley http://www.mendeley.com WorldCat http://www.worldcat.org Zotero http://www.zotero.org

Reference Management tools