Student Handbook - The School of Language, Linguistics and Film

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Some people who have substantial difficulties with spelling are dyslexic. If you suspect that your writing problems may come into this category, you should contact the Disability and Dyslexia Service (dds@qmul.ac.uk) to arrange a diagnosis. Documenting your essay We do not expect your essay to consist purely of your own ideas and opinions. It will naturally include some material that you have acquired from lectures or seminars. But there are other sources on which you can draw: books, articles in journals, and websites. In general, you should be guided by your teacher’s recommendations for reading. He or she may have deliberately left a book off a reading list because it is too rudimentary or too difficult, or because its conclusions are not accepted among scholars. You should be very careful about using material from websites, because this has often not gone through the quality controls required in academic books or journals. But never keep silent about a source because you do not know whether the teacher will approve of it or not. If consulting an unreliable source leads you into error, you will lose marks for the error anyway, and to mention the source at least gives you some excuse. The rule is that, whatever sources you use, you must acknowledge them. Not to do so is dishonest since it is seeking credit for someone else’s work (see Plagiarism under § 5.1 ASSESSMENT). To acknowledge a source means: (i) to list it in a bibliography; (ii) to give references in the text of your essay itself. Both are essential. The form these acknowledgements take is largely a matter of convention. Other departments may require you to do things slightly differently. But when submitting essays to the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, please make sure you keep to the following guidelines. The School of Languages, Linguistics and Film prefers the so-called ‘Author-date’ (or ‘Harvard’) system. This means that, rather than having to add a footnote or endnote every time you need to document the source of an idea, you simply add a bracket in the text giving the surname of the author, the date of the publication referred to, a colon, and the relevant page numbers. Thus, if you found a particular point on page 330 of an article by Charles A. Ferguson, published in 1950, you should, after making that point in your essay, add a brief reference in the form (Ferguson 1950: 330). To enable your reader to make sense of these references, you will then need to include at the end of your essay a bibliography giving the full details of all the material you read for that essay. These should be listed alphabetically by author and chronologically by date (i.e. they should begin with exactly the information included in the brackets in your text). They should contain enough information to enable the reader to check the reference for him or herself, including the exact title and the exact place of publication. Ferguson’s article is entitled ‘Diglossia’ and appeared in the 15th issue of a journal called Word. In a bibliography therefore it would appear as: Ferguson, Charles A (1950), ‘Diglossia’, Word, 15: 325-40. Notes: Besides the bibliography, you may also want to add information to your essay other than in the text. This is best done through notes, with a number superscripted in the text referring to the note which then appears either at the bottom of the page (‘footnotes’) or after the end of the essay itself (‘endnotes’). However, notes should always be kept to a minimum, and in many essays are quite unnecessary. Writing a bibliography Remember: All essays must have a bibliography attached at the end; failure to provide one will have a serious effect on your mark. This list should include all the reading you have done in the preparation of your essay, even if you haven’t used it directly. If you are writing about a particular text or texts, do not forget to include details of the edition(s) you have used. Do not include in this list anything you have not read. 26
Within the School we recommend that in your bibliography you should adopt the following conventions: Books. Give, in this order: i) the surname of the author, followed by a comma; ii) the author’s first name (or initials only, if the title-page has only initials); iii) the date of publication (in parentheses) followed by a comma; iv) the title (in italics if you can when word processing, or if not, underlined); v) the place of publication (followed by a colon), and the name of the publisher (both in parentheses). E.g.: Garman, Michael (1990), Psycholinguistics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Films. Give, in this order: i) the surname of the director, followed by a comma; ii) the director’s first name (or initials only, if that is how the director is known); iii) the date of release (in parentheses) followed by a comma; iv) the title (in italics if you can when word processing, or if not, underlined). E.g. Jordan, Neil (1992), The Crying Game. Articles in periodicals. Give, in this order: i) the surname of the author, followed by a comma; ii) the author’s first name (or initials only, if that is what the author gives); iii) the year (in parentheses) followed by a comma; iv) the title of the article in single quotation marks, followed by a comma; v) the name of the journal (in italics if you can when word processing, or if not, underlined) followed by a comma; vi) the volume number, followed by a colon; vii) the first and last pages of the article. E.g.: Ferguson, Charles A (1950), ‘Diglossia’, Word, 15: 325-40. Articles in collective volumes. Give, in this order: i) the surname of the author, followed by a comma; ii) the author’s first name (or initials only, if that is what the author gives); iii) the date of publication (in parentheses) followed by a comma; iv) the title in single quotation marks, followed by a comma then the word in; v) the title of the book in which the article appears (underlined or in italics), followed by a comma; vi) the abbreviation ed., followed by the first name (or initials) and surname of the editor(s) of the volume; vii) the place of publication (followed by a colon), and the name of the publisher (both in parentheses); viii) the abbreviation pp., followed by the first and last page numbers of the article. E.g.: Crystal, David (1980), ‘Neglected Grammatical Factors in Conversational English’, in Studies in English Linguistics: For Randolph Quirk, ed. Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leach, & Jan Svartvik (London: Longman) pp. 150-187. 27
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