Inside Track to Academic Research, Writing & Referencing, 1st edition

Published by Longman (April 29, 2010) © 2010
Mary Deane

Title overview

Academic Research, Writing & Referencing will provide you with practical guidance and tips on searching for literature and referencing your sources in a scholarly manner, helping you to avoid plagiarism and to produce successful academic writing assignments whatever your course of study. With the in-depth understanding of the practice of integrating and referencing academic sources and research into your writing that this book delivers, you will be better prepared to deal with – and succeed in -  the full range of writing tasks that will be expected of you over the course of your academic studies and on into your chosen career.

Get the inside track on:

·        Why should you reference?

·        Searching for, selecting, and evaluating sources for academic assignments 

·        How to credit others  

·        Crediting sources and avoiding plagiarism

·        Integrating research by quoting, summarising and paraphrasing

·        How to construct an argument based on research

·        Referencing styles: the Harvard style, the MLA style, the Legal Referencing System

·        Tips on academic argumentation. 

Visit www.smarterstudyskills.com to access a wealth of useful information, tips, templates and interactive activities to support your studies.

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

Foreword

Introduction: entering the academy

About the author

Acknowledgements

Part I:  Academic integrity

Introduction to Part 1

Chapter 1:  Academic integrity

Chapter 2:  Avoiding plagiarism

Part 2 Research

Introduction to Part 2

Chapter 3:  Locating sources

Chapter 4:  Assessing sources

Chapter 5:  Reading sources critically

Part 3 Writing

Introduction to Part 3

Chapter 6:  Integrating sources by quoting

Chapter 7:  Integrating sources by paraphrasing

Chapter 8:  Integrating sources by summarising

Chapter 9:  Critiquing sources

Part IV:  Referencing

Introduction to Part 4

Chapter 10:  The Harvard Style

Chapter 11:  Academic disciplines and referencing systems

Conclusion: succeeding in the academy

Glossary

Quiz answers

List of references

Bibliography

Index

 

 

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