Monday, March 22, 2010

Research skills 2-MLA Referencing podcast summary

Name: Omar Fadlalla
Number: H00025983

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?

Taking someone’s work without referring to the resource.

2. What must you do avoid plagiarizing?
When referencing not to steal other people’s sources of information.

3. What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?

MLA

4. What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?

Author’s name, title, place published, publisher, publisher date.

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 from the magazine.

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?

The name of the 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 article.

11. What comes before the URL in a database reference?

The date that you accessed.

12. Where is the bibliography?

At the end.

13. What is in the bibliography?

List of all the resources that you used.

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?

In reported speech.

17. What information goes in an inline citation?

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?

College librarians.

20. In Google type, ‘HCT plagiarism.’ Find the page which describes the consequences of plagiarism at HCT. State what this consequence is.

Immediate dismissal from HCT.

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