Difference between revisions of "Referencing"
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| − | All students should be aware of the need for '''referencing''' -- the listing of sources you cite in your work. (For a different type of referencing, used in applying for a job, see [[personal reference]].) | + | All students should be aware of the need for '''referencing''' -- the listing of sources you cite in your work. (''For a different type of referencing, used in applying for a job, see [[personal reference]]''.) |
Some teachers place enormous stress, time and attention on the subject of referencing, and so should you. It is one of the fundamental disciplines of worthwhile academic study. All academic work should be able to show that it is based on reasonable deduction from legitimate data. One of the practices it should encourage is that of careful attention to detail. | Some teachers place enormous stress, time and attention on the subject of referencing, and so should you. It is one of the fundamental disciplines of worthwhile academic study. All academic work should be able to show that it is based on reasonable deduction from legitimate data. One of the practices it should encourage is that of careful attention to detail. | ||
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For worthwhile academic study, you should tell your reader where you got your data. This is partly a question of your professional training in the skills of [[judgement]]. '''Judgement''' is one of the skills that a University - and any worthwhile school - seeks to develop in all its learners. | For worthwhile academic study, you should tell your reader where you got your data. This is partly a question of your professional training in the skills of [[judgement]]. '''Judgement''' is one of the skills that a University - and any worthwhile school - seeks to develop in all its learners. | ||
| − | There are many fussy details involved | + | There are many fussy details involved: for a start, every Department has its own rules, and for many Departments these are unique. But they can all be viewed as boiled down to four [[Principles of Referencing]]. Other teachers will list a different number of 'principles of referencing', and define them in different ways. Read them: the different views and emphases will help you to learn better what you need to do. |
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| + | For the fine details of the different systems in use, see [[systems of academic referencing]]. | ||
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Revision as of 14:01, 3 April 2007
All students should be aware of the need for referencing -- the listing of sources you cite in your work. (For a different type of referencing, used in applying for a job, see personal reference.)
Some teachers place enormous stress, time and attention on the subject of referencing, and so should you. It is one of the fundamental disciplines of worthwhile academic study. All academic work should be able to show that it is based on reasonable deduction from legitimate data. One of the practices it should encourage is that of careful attention to detail.
For scientists, the data is often from observation or from experiment. For other subjects, the data may well be from books and written sources For worthwhile academic study, you should tell your reader where you got your data. This is partly a question of your professional training in the skills of judgement. Judgement is one of the skills that a University - and any worthwhile school - seeks to develop in all its learners.
There are many fussy details involved: for a start, every Department has its own rules, and for many Departments these are unique. But they can all be viewed as boiled down to four Principles of Referencing. Other teachers will list a different number of 'principles of referencing', and define them in different ways. Read them: the different views and emphases will help you to learn better what you need to do.
For the fine details of the different systems in use, see systems of academic referencing.
