How to do a bibliography

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How to do a bibliography

• How to do a bibliography/reference section at the
  end of an essay or report
• The Harvard system!

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What will you learn by the end of this
presentation?

• What the difference is between a bibliography
  and a reference section
• Why its important to be accurate when putting
  together your bibliography
• The definition of plagiarism'
• Why creativity is not part of writing a
  bibliography
• Oh yes, how to do a basic one, using the Harvard
  system!

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Bibliography or Reference section?

• Reference section
• Refers to any book,journal, newspaper, CD or
  internet site you have quoted in your essay or
  report.

• Bibliography
• A list of all books, CDs, internet sites,journals
  or newspapers you used for research whether
  quoted in your essay/report or not.

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Why be accurate?

• You are using someone elses work
• Your tutors often know the sources and will
  notice inaccuracy
• Your tutors may want to look up something they
  dont know and will use your reference to find it
• Its a mark of a conscientious student and a
  bibliography/reference section counts in your
  overall mark

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What is plagiarism?

• Plagiarism is an academic word for stealing.
• It may be accidental but if you dont reference
  your research, you are suggesting that it is your
  own work.
• Plagiarism is forgetting to reference someones
  work, or copying someones work without saying
  whose it is.

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Dont be creativeDo what youre told!

• This is harsh, but there is no room for
  creativity in a bibliography/reference section
• Follow the guidelines set by your tutor (often
  the Harvard method) and dont improvise
• Your marks for your bibliography (reference)
  section are dependent on doing it right!

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What information do you need to get started?

• The exact
• Title of the book, magazine,journal, newspaper
  article, CD, internet site
• The author (or authors) when possible
• The publisher
• The publication date
• The place of publication closest to where you live

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Write this information down every time you take
notes!

• This is the key to success and will save you so
  much time over your academic career!
• (Ask me how I know this sometime)

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Basic Book Reference

• Last name of author, (comma)
• Initial of author. (full stop)
• Date of publication in brackets ( ), (comma)
• Title of publication underlined or in bold,
  (comma)
• Place of publication closest to where you live,
  (comma)
• Name of Publisher. (full stop)
• This is what it should look like
• Thorpe,M. (1988),Adult Learning, Milton
  Keynes,Open University Press.

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The Blackboard site for Access Study
Skills has two handouts one long and one short
for doing a bibliography. It is under the
Course Documents button
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Whats next?

• You need to learn how to use quotes and
  references in the body of the essay or report
• This will be covered in class
• You also need to learn how to put down sources
  from the internet, magazines, books with more
  than one author, journals, newspapers and CD
  Roms!
• This is outlined in the long guide found under
  Course Documents on the Blackboard Access Study
  Skills site

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A complete guide can be found at this website
from Lancaster University

• http//www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/music/studentinfo/gui
  des/shortbiblio.htm
• Click on the link above