Referencing questions

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?
- The unauthorized use of thoughts of another author and representing them as your own work.

2) What must you do to avoid plagiarizing?
- List all the items you have used in the project.

3) What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?
- MLA style referencing.

4) What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?
- Name, title, place published, publisher, date published.


5) When creating a reference for a book what comes first?
- Authors name.

6) What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?
- Title from the article of the magazine.

7) What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?
- Number of the pages used.

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?
- The URL.

10) In the case of a database source, what is the third item of information?
- The magazine that it originally came from.

11) What cones before the URL in a database reference?
- The date you accessed it.

12) Where is the bibliography?
- At the end.

13) What is in the bibliography?
- The list of all resources you have accessed.

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 ?
- List them alphabetically according to their names.

16) Besides quotation, where do you use an inline citation?
- It is used in a reported speech.

17) What information goes in an inline citation?
- a) Name
b) Date
c) Page number


18) Name one citation machine that can help you?
- www.easybib.com

19) Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?
- Librarians at the college library.

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.