5.Plagiarism and Referencing

Plagiarism and Referencing

What is Plagiarism

“Plagiarism is using other people’s ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information.” Indiana University Bloomington (2004)

We all learn from other people's ideas, we learn from theory's that have been proved in the past ,whether it's on human behaviour or how children learn speak and use language.  We read about these theorists in our college books and hear about them in our lectures. We discuss their ideas in class and we use their theories and facts to prove or to back up our own understanding and opinions. So it is very important that we reference the source and give credit to the theorist whose facts we are using in our studies.

How to Avoid Plagiarism

“To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use another person's idea, opinion, or theory; any facts, statistics, graphs, drawings, any pieces of information that are not common knowledge; quotations of another person's actual spoken or written words; or paraphrase of another person's spoken or written words.” Indiana University Bloomington (2004)

What is referencing

Referencing is giving credit to the person or theorists work by stating who wrote the material. Here are some helpful tips below and a link to a Harvard Referencing tutorial 

• If you have read a book and use the information but in your own words always reference the book.

• If you take the information directly from the source, Use” quotations marks at the start and the finish, use the author surname, year and page number.
  

• If you are citing something from a book, use the author's surname, year of the book and page number.
  

• If there are more than two authors in the book that you are referencing, use the first authors surname and et al instead of the other authors , Byrne et al (2009 p.29), Put all authors names in your Bibliography.
  

Reference List

• Image PB WORKS (online) available at http://oliveharveycollegelibraryguides.pbworks.com/w/page/47192856/Plagiarism accessed on the 07/12/12
• Harvard Tutorial (2005) (online) available at  http://www3.ul.ie/referencing/index.html accessed on the 06/12/12
• Indiana University Bloomington (2004) (online) available at http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml accessed on the 06/12/12
• Images, Information Literacy (2012)  (Online) available at http://ixion.cput.ac.za/library_2/infoLit/referencing.htm accessed on the 07/12/12