Sunday 6 January 2013

Referencing

Academic Integrity
Good Academic Practice
- high quality assignments use wide range of resources
- drawing ideas from others is accepted, however it is important to reference where the info is taken from i.e give them credit.

Referencing
- you need to reference your sources when:
     -included other people's views, concepts, ideas and theories.
     -use fact, statistics, pictures, diagrams, from other sources including the internet)
     -directly quoting the words of another person
     -paraphrasing another person of summerising their words or ideas

Benefits
 Demonstates
     -respect other ideas
     -breadth of resources you have used
     -ability to synthesise knowledge by drawing together and appropriately using different ideas.
     - good assessment practice which therefore gains marks.

Avoid accusations of cheating

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