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A Guide to Referencing 6 your university assignments, many of the ideas should come from the work of experts in your field of study. You must acknowledge that these ideas are not your own. If you do not, you are committing plagiarism because you are, in effect, stealing someone else’s ideas. If you copy, summarise, paraphrase, or in any other way use someone else’s ideas, findings, theories, opinions, tables, pictures, videos, examples, graphs, DVDs, conclusions, and so on, you must acknowledge this by providing a citation in the text of the assignment and by including full referencing details in the reference list. RMIT has a strict policy on plagiarism and this can be found on the RMIT University Vietnam website. V. What is paraphrasing? University students need to be able to paraphrase. Paraphrasing is when you write an author’s idea(s) in your own words. The best way to do this is to read, and re-read, one paragraph at a time, until you feel you really understand what the author is saying. Then, put the original text aside and, without looking at it, write about the idea(s) in your own words. Lecturers prefer you to paraphrase rather than to use many direct quotations in your assignments as this shows that you really do understand what the author is saying. A paraphrase needs to have an in-text citation with the family name(s) of the author(s) and the year of publication. Paraphrases usually do not need a page number in the in-text citation but check with each lecturer to see if he/she requires this. IV. Is there plagiarism in sources on the Internet? Yes, the Internet is full of plagiarised material. You will often find identical material on several websites, none of which cites each other. You may use this material yourself without fear of plagiarising if you follow these two guidelines: 1. You must make a concerted effort to find the original source of the material. Looking at the date that each website posted the material is a good way to start. 2. You must, of course, properly cite and reference whichever source you believe is the original one. VI. What is summarising? A summary consists of the main points in an article, passage, chapter or book. It always has significantly fewer words than the original text. The best way to summarise is to read the whole text first, and then re-read it, while noting down the main points. A summary needs to have an in-text citation with the family name(s) of the author(s) and the year of publication. Summaries usually do not need a page number in the in-text citation but check with each lecturer to see if he/she requires this. ***
GENERAL CITING AND REFERENCING GUIDELINES GENERAL CITING AND REFERENCING GUIDELINES
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