Year 8 Assessment Booklet 2019

REFERENCING YOUR ASSIGNMENTS Referencing, or citing, means acknowledging the sources of information and ideas you have used in an assignment. It means that whenever you write an assignment that requires you to find and use specific information you must acknowledge where you have found the information. WHY REFERENCE? You should not write an assignment that is made up of just general, unsupported statements. You need to use ideas and facts collected by others to support your arguments. The referencing in your assignment shows where these ideas have come from. By using references appropriately, you will show the breadth and quality of your research and avoid plagiarism. THE ‘RULES’ OF REFERENCING There are three main rules of referencing: 1. A reference must be included every time you use someone else’s ideas or information. 2. A reference must be included when you: • paraphrase (express someone else’s unique idea in your own words) • quote (express someone else’s ideas in their exact words) • copy (reproduce a diagram, graph or table from someone else’s work). 3. Each reference must appear in two places: • in the text of your assignment each time it is used (the in-text reference) • on the last page of your report in a more detailed summary of sources used called a Bibliography .

There are different ways of doing this but at Somerset College you are expected to use the Harvard system of referencing.

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