Plagarism tips and tricks

Referencing for me personally was something that was created to test me every time I do an assignment at college. Just when I think I have mastered the idea of it I receive feedback on an assignment saying my referencing was wrong but that I am improving (whether or not this is said so  I don’t give up on life or it really is improving I don’t know), but it is something I am aiming to master, need to master. Referencing is acknowledging the work of others in your assignments instead of trying to pass it off as your own work, because believe me they do find out. Referencing is such an important part of your college academic life- it can lead to you failing or passing, so it’s best to try and figure it out in the early days. Things that need to be referenced are books, journals, websites, pictures, newspapers- basically anything you put into your assignment that you haven’t thought of. Most colleges use the Harvard Referencing system- a 2  step system including ‘in text referencing’ (commonly referred to as citation) and ‘a reference list’. In text referencing is used in your piece of work immediately after or before any piece of information your copying is written into your work. You need to include the author, year of publication and a page number here e.g

‘Scaffolding means changing the level of support’ (Santrock 2007, p.229).

A reference list is an alphabetical list of all material used in your work. This is included at the end of your work on a separate page. A reference list should look like this

Santrock, J.W.(2007) Child Development, New York: Tata McGrath.

There are different ways to reference different materials depending on your source. In college we were given a leaflet that had different examples and we just incorporated our information into it (see pics). 

Reference List:

·         Cooke, D. 2013. Communications and The Learning Environment, Lecture 3: Plagiarism. ITB

·         ITB. Department of Humatities, Referencing Guide. Febuary 2013.

·         Santrock, J.W.(2007) Child Development, New York: Tata McGrath.