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Plagiarism

Whenever you produce a piece of work it is imperative that anyone else reading it (or viewing it or listening to it) is sure that it is all your own work. If you take words, images, sounds or even ideas from others you MUST say where you got them.

Presenting other people's words, or ideas as your own is called plagiarism. This is a type of fraud and will be considered cheating by your teachers. Check out this handy 'Accidental Plagiarism' Tutorial.

Showing others what material you have referred to and used in your work (words, pictures, music, ideas) is called referencing and a list of references is called a bibliography. 

There are several styles for citing your sources and writing bibliographies. One of the most popular is called the Harvard Style and this is the system we recommend you use here at Le Régent College. Supporting material is referenced "in text" using the author date system. The Chicago Style on the other hand uses footnotes to reference things from the text and a reference List and/or

Bibliography at the end of the essay.

Plagiarism is basically stealing.

pic by Ryan Roberts

No-one likes a thief!

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Understand what Plagiarism is. Learn to Reference.

Have a nice life.

The Harvard Style of Referencing

The basic purpose of all referencing styles is:

1. to acknowledge other people’s words or ideas

2. to enable readers to find the material if they want to.

The style should remain consistent throughout a piece of writing.

Part A How to quote from others or refer to others’ ideasWhen quoting in running text, always include:

author date page number or location reference (where specific text is referred to).

How to quote sentences from another author

Note: You must keep this to a minimum, to ensure that what you submit for assessment is your own work.Set out the quotation in a separate block of text, by:

indenting from the margin using a smaller font size or italicising the text.

Example

At the time of the European colonisation the Australian landscape was portrayed as untouched wilderness. In fact, Indigenous Australians were using various techniques, particularly fire, to manage the land:

… the explorers were not pushing out into wilderness, they were trekking through country that had been in human occupation for hundreds of generations. It was land that had been skilfully managed and shaped by continuous and creative use of fire. (Reynolds 2000, p.20)

Indent from the margin

Use a different font than the rest of the text (eg, make smaller or italicise)

Leave a line above and below the quote

Identify author, year of publication and page number at the end of the quote

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How to quote a few words from an authorInclude the words in the normal setting of the sentence.

Example

Reynolds (2000) argues that the Australian landscape was ‘skilfully managed and shaped’ (p. 20) by Aboriginal people through the use of fire.

Part B How to create a reference list or Bibliography

A reference list is a full list of all publications referred to in the work. It is placed at the end. A bibliography differs in that it also includes publications that are not specifically referred to in the work.

The basic elements of a citation

Order of elements

The Harvard or author-date style of referencing always begins with the author and date.The details of the citation are organised in the order shown below. The basic elements that appear in most publications are shown in bold. You should look for these first and then clarify your citation with the other elements if they apply to your source.

1. Author CREATOR

2. Date PUBLICATION DETAILS

3. Title Book (in italics if published), or‘Article’, Journal, or‘Chapter’, in Book

TEXT DETAILS

Use underline instead of italics if handwriting.

4. Editor / translator / compiler TEXT DETAILS

5. Edition (if identified as 2nd, 3rd, revd, etc.) TEXT DETAILS

6. Volume no. / Volume title (if applicable) TEXT DETAILS

7. Other publication details (e.g. day, month) PUBLICATION DETAILS

8. Series title (if applicable) and volume number within TEXT DETAILS

Add page number after the quote, plus author and year of publication if not referred to earlier in the sentence.

CREATORAuthor or

Editor or

Compiler and/or

Translator

TEXT DETAILSTitle

Edition

Page numbers

Volume / Issue no.

URL

PUBLICATION DETAILSPublisher

Place

Date

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series if series is numbered

9. Medium (e.g. DVD, CD-ROM, podcast but not book, Internet, as this will be self-evident)

TEXT DETAILS

10. Publisher, place PUBLICATION DETAILS

11. Page number or numbers (if a chapter in a book or article in newspaper/journal)

TEXT DETAILS

12. URL TEXT DETAILS

13. Access date PUBLICATION DETAILS

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Using Online Tools to Help You Reference Your Sources

Before the widespread use of computers and the internet, students had to remember how to reference each type of material and manually construct each reference.

Fortunately for you there are now many electronic and online tools to help you get your citations correct. If your sources were found in the school library, you can use the Harvard Citation function on the College AccessIt Library Catalogue.

http://www.accessitlibraries.net/lrg00

Alternatively, you can use the excellent SLASA Reference Generator:http://www.slasa.asn.au/org/.

Username: orgPassword is: pages

Choose the right level of referencing for your age group: Junior, Middle or Senior and then find the type of material you are referencing (book, newspaper, website, photo etc).