CO100 – CommunicationWeek 1 – Lecture 2

Academic Writing

RegulationsAssignment presentationTemplates in Word

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PlagiarismFine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.

Jonathon Swift

Using other people’s words, ideas & research without acknowledging them

It is stealing!

There are consequences

The General Regulations

Quoting, Paraphrasing, Summarising: What are the Differences?

Quoting Paraphrasing Summarising

• matches the source word for word

• does not match the source word for word

• does not match the source word for word

is usually a brief segment of the text

involves putting a passage from a source into your own words

involves putting the main idea(s) into your own words, but including only the main point(s)

appears between quotation marks

changes the words or phrasing of a passage, but retains and fully communicates the original meaning

presents a broad overview, so is usually much shorter than the original text

must be attributed to the original source

must be attributed to the original source

must be attributed to the original source

Activity1. Paraphrase the following paragraph

incorporating no more than one phrase as a quote (ensuring you use quotation marks for such a phrase).

2. Write a 1 – 2 sentence summary of the paragraph.

Uniformly individual

The wearing of school uniform is a controversial matter in some countries. American teenagers do not wear them; nor do the French or the Greeks. But the British do and apart from a few exceptions, so do the Australians. Supporters say that a uniform provides a sense of identification with the school community. They also claim that it removes the competitive tendency young people have to outdress each other and hence divide themselves into ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’. Another view claims that if uniforms were removed teenagers would end up creating their own ‘peer mode’ which itself would become a de facto uniform.

Wajnryb, R. (1990).Grammar Dictation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press

Introduction to ReferencingIn-text citations - brief details (author,

date, page numbers) in the body of your

paper AND

Reference list - full details of each in-text

citation in an alphabetical list at the end of

the paper.

[Handout example]

Referencing StyleBroome Campus – APA style for all SchoolsAll are available from the library home page

EducationArts & SciencesNursing

In-text citationsIf using exact words put them in double

quotation marks “...”

“Australian schools are embedded in a Western middle-class cultural tradition, emphasising not only particular ways of doing things and particular concepts, but also a particular structure” (Mudrooroo, 1995, p. 124).

In-text citations“Australian schools

are embedded in a Western middle-class cultural tradition, emphasizing not only particular ways of doing things and particular concepts, but also a particular structure” (Mudrooroo, 1995, p. 124).

Mudrooroo (1995, p. 124) stated that Australian schools are based on Western cultural concepts and structures. OR

Australian schools are based on Western cultural concepts and structures (Mudrooroo 1995, p. 124).

Abbreviating within a referenceHere are approved

abbreviations for use in a reference list:

ed. for edition

rev. ed. for revised edition

2nd ed. for second edition

Ed. for Edited by

Eds. for multiple editors

Trans. for Translated by

p. for page number, with a space after the period

pp. for page numbers (plural)

Vol. for a specific Volume

vols. for a work with xx volumes

No. for Number

Pt. for Part

Suppl. for Supplement,

Tech. Rep. for Technical Report

Reference listAll references cited in your essay must be listed at the end of the paper in alphabetical order

Hagan, S. (2005). The N word: One man’s stand. Broome: Magabala Books.

Mudrooroo, N. (1995). Us mob: History, culture, struggle: An introduction to Indigenous Australia. Sydney: Angus & Robertson

Reference ListsBe in alphabetical orderUse title if no authorUse italics for the title of the book, website

name, journal name and volume numberSecond and subsequent lines indentedUse consistent size & type of fontNo bullet points or numbering

ReferencingTakes time and needs practiceHelps available:

Word 2007 includes a ‘References’ tab on the ribbon

EndNote, a referencing program, is loaded onto Campus computers and there is information about its use available at http://www.endnote.com/support/ensupport.asp

Exercise 2handout

Ex 2

Amnesty International Report 2003 Israel and the Occupied Territories. (2003). Retrieved from http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/POL10/003/2003/en/9f949bed-d743-11dd-b024-21932cd2170d/pol100032003en.html

Sampford, C & Round, T. (Eds.). (2001). Beyond the republic: meeting the global challenges to constitutionalism. Leichhardt, N.S.W.: Federation Press.

Thayer, A. (2002). Societies look at changing the face of science & engineering. Chemical & Engineering News, 80(47), 39.

Thorpe, I. (2009). Dirty Little Secret. Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal 33 (6), 12 – 14. Retrieved from Informit

World Health Organization. (2003). Retrieved February 12, 2003, from http://www.who.int/en/

Test yourselfhttp://www.academicintegrity.uoguelph.ca/

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