Wednesday, March 10, 2010

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?

The practice of taking someone's else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

2. What must you do avoid plagiarizing?

List all the resources you have used in the project.

3. What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?

MLA style referencing.

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

1. Author's Name 2. Title 3. Place published 4. Publisher 5. Date published.

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 the article from the magazine.

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

Number of pages.

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

The name of the website.

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

The URL.

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

The name of the magazine.

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

The date you accessed it.

12. Where is the bibliography?

Bibliography comes at the end of the project.

13. What is in the bibliography?

The list of all the resources you have used.

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

Last name (Family name).

15. How do you order items in the bibliography?

List them alphabetically according to family names.

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

Inline citation is placed at the end of a sentence or paragraph to provide the information's origin source.

17. What information goes in an inline citation?

1. The name , 2. The date , 3. The page numbers

18. Name one citation machine that can help you?

www.citationmachine.com

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

The Librarians and helpful websites such as www.easybib.com .

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 the HCT.

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