Animal Care: Referencing

The link below is the PowerPoint presentation abut how and why to reference that is delivered to students by their Subject Lbrarian.  Please feel free to use it as a refresher or if you haven't attended the session, use it to help you learn about referencing correctly.

Turnitin is web-based plagiarism detection software. Basically, it matches your submitted work to content held electronically, and identifies if there are any matches and if so, the web site(s) the matches came from.

It is integrated within the VLE (Blackboard) and you can view your Originality Report, which gives you details of how your assignment has been matched to external sources of information.

Visit the Assignment section of this LibGuide for more support and guidance on the use of Turnitin. 

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Referencing is a tool to support and identify the evidence you use in your assignment. 

In other words, it tells your reader where the proof to back up what you say has come from.

Referencing has 2 elements:

• Within the text where you cite other people's work
• At the end of your assignment in the bibliography

We have compiled two guides to help you with your referencing.

If the full guide is too complicated at this stage, then there is a basic guide you can download.  This is the guide you are given when you attend a Harvard referencing session with your Information Specialist

You can download the full guide or read it online.  It is available to buy at the reception desk for £1

Click on the links above to see them:

Plagiarism is:

Although it is generally accepted that confusion will reign for the first few weeks ,of a new academic year, ignorance will not be accepted as an excuse or as a defence against an accusation of plagiarism – you must, therefore, understand what it is and how to avoid it. If you fail to reference correctly your information sources, you are passing off the work of someone else as your own, whether intentional or otherwise – that is plagiarism. Correctly referencing your sources is vital if you are to avoid this. Plagiarism is comparable to cheating in an exam, and Doncaster College condemns the practice.

Why Cite Your Sources:

• To give credit where credit is due
• To give credibility to your research
• To enable your tutors to retrace your research steps
• To practice academic honesty and integrity 

Remember:

• Try to be organised- keep  a note of all the sources that you may come to use in your assignment.
• Be consistent- keep the same format for your references
• Be positive- if you can master referencing, you will be able to show that you have spent time researching and digesting material and have then used this to form your own opinions and arguments