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Avoiding Plagiarism Your essay has to be your own work but you can include quotes from existing materials. Any source you refer to or quote must be correctly referenced. Every time you look at a source make a note of its details, and the date you looked at it. By doing this you know what you looked at when, and you have a record of it for your reference list and/or bibliography. Your sources can then be easily found by anyone who reads your work, so that if necessary they can check them for evidence. How to use your sources All information which is not acknowledged as a direct quote should be written in your own words. Rewording or summarising information from a source and not referencing it is plagiarism. At the end of your essay write a reference list containing any sources you have cited in your text. You could write a bibliography instead of a reference list, this will contain all the sources you have looked at during your research, whether or not you have actually made use of information from them. Harvard Referencing For English you will be using the Harvard referencing system. This is the most common form of referencing used for humanities subjects. More information about the Harvard System can be found at http://libweb.anglia.ac.uk/referencing/har vard.htm Citing sources in your work Whenever you refer to information from a source or use a direct quote you need to acknowledge this in the body of your work. If you are quoting from a specific page or pages in a source you need to include the page numbers as well as give the author’s name and the date of publication. eg: Harris (2008, p.56) argued that “nursing staff…” If you are refering to a complete work you just need the author and date of publication eg: In a recent study (Evans, 2008), qualifications of school-leavers were analysed… These citations will then link to the full details of the source, which will be listed in the reference list or bibliography at the end of your work. Using quotations in your text Short quotations –up to 2 or 3 lines long, should be in quotation marks in the body of your work. Longer quotations should be included as a separate paragraph and indented from the main text. For these you do not need to use quotation marks. Just put the citation details in brackets after the quoted passage.
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