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What is the difference between quoting, paraphrasing, summarising and cheating?

What type of citation should I use? (In-line or footnotes?)

What style of citation should I use in my module? (There are different styles for sciences, humanities, social sciences, etc.)

What kind of bibliography or reference list should I include?

 

Where can I find more information on plagiarism?

From Plagiarism.org:

See also Referencing.


Check with your School for the correct way of acknowledging another persons's work and for bibliographies. It is different for different disciplines.


NUS have an excellent video-based plagiarism site at Plagiarism.NUS. It contains a realistic scenario where students are about to hand in a plagiarised assignment.


The Capital Community College website has excellent information on the topic of plagiarism: Guide to Research, in particular, Plagiarism.

(Thank you to the anonymous student who supplied this link.)

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