If you have never heard of these two words before, don’t
panic it is very normal. I have recently only come across these words myself,
and for most, it is in the first week of starting college which I won’t lie was
terrifying.
After getting over the first week it all seemed to sink in
and these two words ‘Plagiarism and referencing’ sounded normal. I will now answer
some of the most frequently asked questions about plagiarism and referencing that
I too asked and hope you have a better understanding.
What
does it mean?
Firstly Plagiarism in simple words is stealing the
ideas or words from another person and using those as your own. This could be
for instance; coping a video, image or music. If you wish to use an image or
quote from another person, you then must Reference that information which
in other words is showing where you got your source of information or ideas
from using a bibliography.
When
do I use it?
When you are
researching your topic you will come across books, websites, pictures, quotes
which are all owned by someone else and is not your writing so therefore you
must put a referencing bibliography at the end of each essay or piece where you
have used another person’s word.
How do I reference correctly?
When we learnt
about referencing we were given many guidelines on how to reference; books,
websites, articles using Harvard style referencing but as my sister has just
finished college she had gone through all the stresses of referencing until she
came about a website called ‘Neil’s tool box’ which
is a referencing site which orders your reference Harvard style. Trust me I
highly recommend it for any new student going into to the college world it will
save a lot of time and stress which is not needed. Here’s an example of a Harvard
style reference from this site;
Book= lifelines 2nd
edition
Reference= Enright,C
and Flynn,M (2010). Lifelines. 2nd ed. Dublin: Folens publishers. p24.
Happy Referencing!
bibliography-creator/http://Dorthman,D. (2006). Comic:Internet, info literacy,plagiarism. Available:
http://davidrothman.net/category/information-literacy/. Last accessed 1st dec
2012.neilstoolbox.com/
visited 2012-11-19
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