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

Published by Pearson (2 November 2012) © 2013

  • Mary Deane Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University
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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.

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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