Professional Documents
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Why be accurate?
You are using someone elses work Your tutors often know the sources and will notice inaccuracy Your tutors may want to look up something they dont know and will use your reference to find it Its a mark of a conscientious student and a bibliography/reference section counts in your overall mark
What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is an academic word for stealing. It may be accidental but if you dont reference your research, you are suggesting that it is your own work. Plagiarism is forgetting to reference someones work, or copying someones work without saying whose it is.
The Blackboard site for Access Study Skills has two handouts one long and one short for doing a bibliography. It is under the Course Documents button
Whats next?
You need to learn how to use quotes and references in the body of the essay or report
You also need to learn how to put down sources from the internet, magazines, books with more than one author, journals, newspapers and CD Roms!
This is outlined in the long guide found under Course Documents on the Blackboard Access Study Skills site