Referencing questions

Part 1 – Referencing Questions
Watch the podcast that is linked under Referencing Links on the LCES N100 webpage. Answer the following questions from the presentation.

1. What is plagiarism?

Copying or cheating by pretending someone else's work is your own.


2. What must you do avoid plagiarizing?

Credit the resources you've consulted.


3. What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?

MLA.

4. What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?

Author's name; title; place published; publisher; date.

5. When creating a reference for a book what comes first?

Author's name.


6. What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?

Title of article.


7. What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?

Page nos.


8. What is the third item of information when referencing a website?

Name of website.


9. What is last item of information when referencing a website?

URL.


10. In the case of a database source, what is the third item of information?

Magazine name.


11. What comes before the URL in a database reference?

The date you accessed it.

12. Where is the bibliography?

At the end.


13. What is in the bibliography?

All the resources you've accessed.


14. When giving the author’s name which part of the name do you put first?

Family name.


15. How do you order items in the bibliography?

Alphabetically.

16. Besides quotations, where do you use an inline citation?

Reported speech.


17. What information goes in an inline citation?

Author's name, date/page nos.

18. Name one citation machine that can help you?

Easybib.com

19. Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?

College librarians.

20. In Google type, ‘HCT plagiarism.’ Find the page which describes the consequences of plagiarism at HCT. State what this consequence is.

Immediate dismissal from HCT.



Possible topics:

car accidents
smoking
obesity
aircraft safety
divorce
adult literacy
species extinctionPart 2 – Sample Bibliography
Choose topic that interests you.

Topic:
Using the ADM library catalogue

Go to http://library.hct.ac.ae/
Click Databases and ebooks
Perform the same search with the data bases Student Resource Center – Gold
List three sources that might be useful.

(1)
(2)

(3)


Use Easybib to create a bibliography from the sources above.