Referencing and Plagiarism

What is referencing?

• Giving answers to your lecturers and information specialist

• It is giving authority to the authors

• It is a way of giving credit to the authors.

• It is a way sharing sources with others

Why is referencing necessary?

• Good academic writing

• To show how much you know and don't know

• For others to see your ideas

• Copyright and academic integrity

Types of Intellectual Property

• Industrial designs

  Patents

• T.shirts

  Pens

What is plagiarism?

• Presenting cited work

• Stealing someone's work and presenting it as your own

• Paraphrasing ideas

How many days can a first year student resubmit their assignment after they have committed the first plagiarism offence?

• 4 days

• 7 days

• 10 days

• 5 days

When do you reference?

• After every paragraph

• You reference each sentence on your assignment

• Everytime that you use an idea in your work that is not purely your own

• At the end of your assignment

Where can you access your reference guide?

• VC Learn > IIE Library > E-shelf

• VC Learn > Courses > My Library

• 6. My Library

• E- shelf

What do we have in the Information Centre?

• Books

• Study areas

What can we reference?

• Books

• Instagram DMs

• WhatsApp conversations

• Tik Tok posts

Referencing style used by IIE

• American Harvard style

• Australian APA style

• Harvard Style

• Howard style