Referencing Questions

LSEC N100
Research Skills 2 – MLA referencing podcast summary (5%)

Name: Abdulla Jasem Abdulla
Number: H00127834

Part 1 – Referencing Questions
Watch the podcast that is linked under Referencing Links on the LCES N100 webpage. Answer the following questions from the presentation.

1. What is plagiarism?

It is cheating or copying

2. What must you do avoid plagiarizing?

Credit the resources you have consulted by using inline citation

3. What style of referencing is accepted at HCT?

MLA

4. What are the five types of information that are often included when referencing from various sources?

Author’s name; Title; place published; date published ;publisher

5. When creating a reference for a book what comes first?

Author’s name

6. What is the second item of information in a magazine reference?

Title of the article

7. What is the last item of information in a magazine reference?

Page no

8. What is the third item of information when referencing a website?

Name of the website

9. What is last item of information when referencing a website?

URL

10. In the case of a database source, what is the third item of information?

Magazine name


11. What comes before the URL in a database reference?

Date you access in it

12. Where is the bibliography?

At the end

13. What is in the bibliography?

List of all resources

14. When giving the author’s name which part of the name do you put first?

Family name

15. How do you order items in the bibliography?

Alphabetically

16. Besides, quotations, where do you use an inline citation?

In citation

17. What information goes in an inline citation?

Name, date and page no

18. Name one citation machine that can help you?

WWWEASYBIB.COM

19. Besides your teacher, who can help you with referencing?

College librarian

20. In Google type, ‘HCT plagiarism.’ Find the page which describes the consequences of plagiarism at HCT. State what this consequence is.

Dismissal from HCT