Originality and Plagiarism What Is Plagiarism? The action or practice of taking someone's work, idea, etc and passing it off as one's own, literary theft. Deliberate Plagiarism · Copying or buying others work · Copying from print sources · Cutting and pasting from internet sources Unintentional Plagiarism · Failing to reference sources · Incorrect use of paraphrasing · Self-plagiarism: copying from an assignment wrote for a previous unit, each piece of work you submit must be original Plagiarised work will be penalised regardless of intent. Why Do You Need to Reference? . Must indicate where you have referred to sources written or produced by others · Consistency and accuracy of referencing is important to verify quotations and enable readers to follow up and read cited authors arguments · Necessary to avoid plagiarism 1. Allow others to verify what you're saying is accurate 2. Develop your skills in attention to detail 3. Show people marking our work what references you've used 4. You get marks for good referencing BU Harvard's Referencing Style Also known as author date method. 2 parts to method: 5. Citing sources in main text of work 6. References at end of work, full details that allow readers to trace sources Citing in Main Part of Text · If authors name appears in sentence just add date after . If authors name does not appear in sentence add the author and date in brackets · If date appears in your sentence just add authors name in brackets Using et al in Citations 7. 1 single author (e.g., harper, 2008) 8. 2 authors, list both (e.g., harper and smith, 2007) 9. For more than 2 authors use et al (e.g., smith et al. 2007)
When listing titles with more than one author at the end of your work, always list all the authors in the order of which they appear in the source. Citing When an Author Has Published More Than One Cited Document in the Same Year . These are distinguished by adding lower case letters (a, b, c) after the year and within the brackets . The letters assigned to each citation are determined by the order a reference is used in the text Second Hand Citation What is second hand citing? = when you read about another source in the source you're reading, you may cite second hand E.g., education should be seen as pleasurable and practical (Ollerton 2003 as cited by Sharps and Tomlinson 2017) In the references at the end, you only list the source you've actually read so only Sharps and Tomlinson. Short Quotations If any quote is less than a line it may be included in the body of a text in double quotation marks E.g., As Cottrell explains, "plagiarism is treated very seriously" (2008, p.122) but different degrees of plagiarism may have different consequences. Long Quotations Should be indented and appear in double quotation marks. E.g., It has been suggested that: " ... " (Cottrell 2008, p. 122). Though it should