Referancing Questions

Part 1 – Referencing Questions
Watch the podcast that is linked under Referencing Links on the LCES N100 webpage. Answer the following questions from the presentation.

1. What is plagiarism?

To represent the thoughts and the work of another author as it is your own work.

2. What must you do avoid plagiarizing?
List all the items that are in the projest.


3. What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?
MLA style.

4. What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?
Author name, Title, Place Published, Publisher, Date Published.
5. When creating a reference for a book what comes first?
Author’s name.

6. What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?

The title of the article.

7. What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?

Page number.

8. What is the third item of information when referencing a website?

Name of website.

9. What is last item of information when referencing a website?

URL.

10. In the case of a database source, what is the third item of information?

Magazine name.

11. What comes before the URL in a database reference?
The date you acceded it.
12. Where is the bibliography?

At the end

13. What is in the bibliography?

All the resource you have accessing.

14. When giving the author’s name which part of the name do you put first?

Family name.

15. How do you order items in the bibliography?

Alphabetically.
16. Besides quotations, where do you use an inline citation?
Reported speech.

17. What information goes in an inline citation?
Author’s name, date/ page numbers.
18. Name one citation machine that can help you?

www.easybib.com
19. Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?
The library staff.
20. In Google type, ‘HCT plagiarism.’ Find the page which describes the consequences of plagiarism at HCT. State what this consequence is.


Dismissal from HCT immediately.

Possible topics:

car accidents
smoking
obesity
aircraft safety
divorce
adult literacy
species extinctionPart 2 – Sample Bibliography
Choose topic that interests you.

Topic:
Using the ADM library catalogue

Go to http://library.hct.ac.ae/
Click Databases and ebooks
Perform the same search with the data bases Student Resource Center – Gold
List three sources that might be useful.

(1)
(2)

(3)


Use Easybib to create a bibliography from the sources above