Select the most suitable answer.

What is an in-text citation?

• the practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own.

• allow your sources to be found by your reader.

• the brief form of the reference that you include in the body of your work.

• contains details of all sources cited in text.

What is plagiarism?

• Expressing an idea in your own words, and giving credit.

• Drawing content from another work and adapting it with due acknowledgement.

• Using a direct quote, and giving credit.

• Using someone else’s work without giving them proper credit.

Can we write an academic essay without citations and references?

• Yes

• No

• Sometimes

• On occassion

What is paraphrasing in academic essays?

• a synthesis of the key ideas of a piece of writing, restated in your own words.

• a synthesis of the key ideas of a piece of writing, restated in your own words.

• extract the most important points from a text and rewrite them in your own words, in a shortened form.

• a way of using different words and phrasing to present the same ideas.

In academic writing we should,

• Include sub-headings.

• Use pictures, fancy points.

• Use informal words such as kids, folks.

• Use contractions such don't, can't

What is the font size of "Times New Roman" that we can use in academic writing?

• 10

• 11

• 12

• 13

Not an academic source,

• Books

• Wikipedia

• Journal articles

• Published reports

What are the things that we should included in a direct quotation?

• Author's surname

  Year

  Inverted commas

• Author's surname

  Inverted commas

  Year

• Author's surname

  Year

  Page number

  Inverted commas

• Author's surname

  Page number

  Inverted commas

What is secondary referencing?

• records of events or evidence as they are first described or actually happened without any interpretation or commentary.

• referring to a document which you have not seen, but which has been used and cited by someone else.

• immediate, first-hand accounts of a topic, from people who had a direct connection with it.

• It is information that is shown for the first time or original materials on which other research is based.

Does citations need to match with the sources in the reference list?

• Yes, definitely

• Not at all

• Sometimes

• On occasion