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Referencing Library Guide

Referencing:
Use the Stellenbosch Harvard Style to ensure you are referencing correctly.

A few referencing tips:

Know the Referencing Style that you are using. You need to be able to spot mistakes.
Make sure what you are referencing, different material types are displayed differently in the bibliography.
Makes sure that your in-text citations match your bibliography
Most important, be CONSISTENT

Plagiarism

"Plagiarism is the theft and use of the ideas, material and other intellectual property of others that are passed off as one’s own." SU Senate. 1 Dec 2016.
To avoid plagiarising someone else's words or ideas, make sure you:

*Paraphrase the original text into your own words. Be sure you are not just rearranging phrases or replacing a couple of words.
*Use quotation marks around text that has been taken directly from the original source.
*Cite every source of information you use to write your paper unless it is common knowledge or the results of your own research. This includes facts, figures, and statistics as well as opinions and arguments.

Make Sense of Referencing Book

Make sense of referencing – The Harvard, APA and Vancouver methods and the footnote system
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Professional Communication for EMS: Referencing & Plagiarism

Referencing Library Guide

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Make Sense of Referencing Book