Research Skills 2

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 some one's work without refering to the resource.

2. What must you do avoid plagiarizing?

- To refer to your own sources of information when referencing and to not steal other people's work.

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 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 that the article comes from.


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.