Academic Misconduct Guide - University of Wolverhampton

12PlagiarismHow canI use Harvardreferencing toavoid plagiarismImagine that you’ve found the perfectsection of text to back up a point youwant to make in an assignment.Here’s an example:Within the UK, the resources availableto higher education from the state,whilst increasing in absolute terms, havediminished in relation to the numberof students within higher education.Additionally, the penalties for failingto recruit students have become moresignificant – either in terms of reducedincome from the funding council,or reduced income from tuition fees(overseas students and taughtpostgraduate markets particularly).Reference:McClellend, M. (2006) PostgraduateCertificate Programme Handbook.Manchester: Association ofUniversity Administrators.Quote it“Within the UK, the resources availableto higher education from the state,whilst increasing in absolute terms,have diminished in relation to the numberof students within higher education.Additionally, the penalties for failingto recruit students have become moresignificant – either in terms of reducedincome from the funding council, orreduced income from tuition fees (overseasstudents and taught postgraduate marketsparticularly)” (McClellend, 2006, p101).Note the quotation marks at the beginningand end of the author’s text. Also notethe author, year of publication and pagenumber is given. This could have also beenquoted this in block format (see page 8).How can you use this section of textwithout committing plagiarism? Thefollowing are legitimate ways to usethe material cited above and theformat is adapted from Fletcher (2004).