Research Skills 2

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?

Take information from someone’s work and make it yours.

2. What must you do avoid plagiarizing?

Reference it to the author.

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.

5. When creating a reference for a book what comes first?

Author’s name – Title – Publisher – Place published – Date published.

6. What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?

Title of article.

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?

Magazines.


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

The date of you when you accessed to it.

12. Where is the bibliography?

In the end of the project.

13. What is in the bibliography?

All resource that use to take the information from.

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 order.

16. Besides, quotations, where do you use an inline citation?

From a speech that is copied from a person or source.

17. What information goes in an inline citation?

(Name,page number) or (Name,Date).

18. Name one citation machine that can help you?

www.easybib.com

19. Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?

The library staff from the college.

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

Immediate dismiss from HCT.