1. Extended Project

2. Why use referencing in your project? It is important that you show the reader where you have used someone else’s ideas or words. When you reference correctly you are demonstrating that you have read widely on a topic.

3. Why use referencing in your project? You are also supporting your hypothesis with comments from expert authors. This lends credibility to your own work. By correctly referencing you allow the marker or reader to follow-up your references and to check the validity of your arguments for themselves.

4. For books, record: The author’s or editor’s name (or names) The year the book was published The title of the book If it is an edition other than the first The city the book was published in The name of the publisher The page number of the work you want to quote

5. For journal articles record: The author’s name or names The year in which the journal was published The title of the article The title of the journal The page number/s of the article in the journal As much other information as you can find about the journal, for example the volume and issue numbers

6. For electronic resources record: The date you accessed the source The electronic address or email The type of electronic resource (email, discussion forum, WWW page, etc)

7. Summarising an author’s work Phillips (1999) suggests that generational change is inevitable and continuous. Davis (2005) believes that the decline of the Roman empire was inevitable by 416AD.

8. Referencing Quotes When organising our time, Adair (1988: 51) states that ‘the centrepiece will tend to be goals and objectives’. OR When organising our time ‘the centrepiece will tend to be goals and objectives’ (Adair, 1988: 51).

9. Footnotes These can be used to either reference academic work or to explain a concept. They can either be collated at the bottom of each page or on a reference list at the end of your project.

10. Example It has long been argued that pork and leek sausages are better than pork and apple. 1 However, Neville has recently produced conclusive evidence to the contrary. 2 1 John Butcher, The Perfect Sausage: From Pigsty to Plate (Cumberland: Pork Press, 1990), pp. 78-90. 2 Harry Neville, Breakfast Bangers (London: Brown, 2005), pp. 56-98.

14. Plagiarism Failure to properly reference using the Harvard system may make the reader think that you are cheating by claiming someone else’s work as your own. Please remember that plagiarism is not just when you directly copy words from another student’s or expert’s work. Plagiarism also occurs when you re-word someone else’s ideas in your own work and you do not give credit to the original source.

15. Consequences If you are suspected of plagiarism you may find that your assignment receives a grade of zero. If you were at university and were caught your position could at the institution could be reviewed! If in doubt reference it!

16. Content for this presentation was taken from: 1 The University of Exeter http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/harvard_ referencing.htm http://education.exeter.ac.uk/dll/studyskills/harvard_ referencing.htm 2 The University of Bristol http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/referencing/re ferencing%20skills/page_07.htm http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/referencing/re ferencing%20skills/page_07.htm 3 Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Civil_Wa r http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Civil_Wa r