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REFERENCING USING THE HARVARD AUTHOR-DATE SYSTEM Developed using the Commonwealth of Australia Style manual for authors, editors and printers of 2002 PART A: REFERENCING AND ITS IMPORTANCE Referencing, or citing, means acknowledging the sources of information and ideas you have used in an assignment (e.g. essay or report). This is a standard practice at university. It means that whenever you write an assignment that requires you to find and use information from other sources, you are expected to reference these resources in your writing. Sources could include books, journal or newspaper articles, items from the internet, pictures or diagrams. Why reference? In academic assignments you are required to read widely so that you can identify the current thinking about a particular topic. You can then use the ideas expressed by other people to reinforce the arguments you present in your assignment. The referencing in your assignment shows two things:  the range of ideas and approaches to a topic that you have found and thought about  your acknowledgement of where these ideas came from By using references appropriately, you will show the breadth and quality of your research and avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s ideas and/or the way they express their ideas as if they are your own. So, when you present a sentence in an assignment without a reference, or words without inverted commas (‘……’) it means that you are, in effect, saying to your reader that those ideas, information or words are your own original ideas or words. If they are not, then you may have plagiarised. Most plagiarism is unintentional and appropriate referencing helps writers to avoid unintentional plagiarism. Written and revised by Learning Advisers in Learning Connection in collaboration with Librarians © University of South