1. Referencing and plagiarism

2. What is referencing?
Referencing is how you acknowledge the work of other people in your own assignments. When you have used their words or even just their ideas!

3. Why should I reference?
Think about how you have felt when someone has copied your work? Has anyone ever used your identify or ‘stolen’ from you? Good referencing will help you to avoid accusations of plagiarism.

4. Why should I reference? Plagiarism
This is when you copy somebody else’s words or ideas.
If you just copy sentences from a book or a website without saying where you got them from that’s plagiarism, and it’s the same if you do it with a friend’s essay.
We need to be strict about plagiarism, and anyone found to plagiarise could fail an assignment and could even be kicked off their course…
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definition

5. You are more likely to achieve the highest grades!
Why should I reference?
Referencing means that:
your arguments will be clearly supported by evidence
your work will be more convincing
your reader can find your sources
your teacher can see how widely you have read and whether you fully understand the work
your work will reflect expected academic values and good academic practice
AND
You are more likely to achieve the highest grades!

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BTEC Research
You will have to do a great deal of research and use a lot of sources for your assignments.
You can use:
Textbooks
Magazines
Newspaper Articles
Web site addresses
PowerPoints and resources from lessons
Online videos
Other sources?

7. Good sources of information for Health & Social Care
AND…all the books and magazines in the Learning Resources Centre.
REMEMBER…some books from other departments may also be relevant for Health & Social Care!
Ask your teachers to recommend some books for you and go and explore!

8. How to do it… Keep a record as you go…
Websites visited and date you looked at it
Articles you read – title name of the author
Books you read – name of the author, title and publisher
Page numbers of any specific points
…even if you don’t plan to directly quote from them!
Keep a record as you go…

9. How to do it…
List all the sources of information together (don’t worry about separating websites and books)
List them alphabetically by author’s or editor’s surname
If the author is unknown, just use the title of the source instead

10. How to do it… Order the information for each source you use like this:
The author’s or editor’s name and a comma
Their initial
The year of publication (in brackets)
The title of the book, programme, magazine, article in italics
Place of publication
Name of publisher
The golden rule is just to give it a try…be consistent in keeping a list of your sources…your teachers will help you and it will become easier with practice!

11. Plagiarism Plagiarism resources:
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism resources:

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Types of references
Primary
Secondary

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Harvard referencing
Most colleges and universities use the Harvard style of referencing, which looks like this:
For Books
McHugh, J., Attwood, S. (2008). Science Is Great. Third Edition. McGraw-Hill, USA
For Websites
McHugh, J. (2000). ‘How To Write References’. URL: Date visited: November 2nd 2011
Mid text: (referencingfordummies.co.uk 2/11/11)

14. Harvard referencing For Journals
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Harvard referencing
For Journals
Attwood, S. (2009). External Factors Affecting Rate Of Reaction Time Of Metals With Acids. Journal of North Chadderton. 7 (11):
Mid – Text Citations (1)
Room temperature can have an effect on reaction time (Attwood, 2009) and has…..
Mid-Text Citations (2) – when there are 3 or more authors
Room temperature can have an effect on reaction time (Attwood et al, 2009) and has….
Quote “Room temperature can have an effect on reaction time (Attwood et al, 2009, pg 76)

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TASK
Can you reference the following publications?

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TASK
Can you reference the following publications?

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Can you reference the following publications?

18. Websites that can reference for you!
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Websites that can reference for you!

19. https://www. brightknowledge
The OCR Referencing Guide version [30 August 2016]
Stretch, B & Whitehouse, M (2010) Health & Social Care Level 3 Book 1 BTEC National, Harlow, Pearson