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HELP!
Don’t worry
we’re here….
Referencing is………
The way we acknowledge that we have
used ideas / facts / information from
somewhere else…….
Basically it is the SOURCE of
information!
ACKNOWLEDGING SOURCES
(or saying ‘thank you’)
 JLS-sampled ’The Sound of Music’
(Rodgers & Hammerstein 11,1965) in
‘The Floor is Alive’
 Pussycat dolls-sampled ’I Will Survive’(Perren & Fekaris,1978) in ‘Hush Hush’
 Goldie Lookin’ Chain-sampled ’New York’(Keys, 2009) in ‘Newport’
What happens if they do not acknowledge
sources……?
Referencing-Blah, Blah, Blah!
He said/she said
Building a convincing case
Sampling
Acknowledging
How do we know something?
Lady Gaga is the second most powerful
person in the World?
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HELP!
FACT OR OPINION?
‘Common Knowledge’
Boiling point of water?
Capital of England?
What is a ‘Chav’?
Two possible ‘sources’ of
knowledge:
1.‘Primary data’: information you have
collected yourself.
2. Things you have heard/read
somewhere.
3.Reason; careful, logical argument
grounded in 1 and 2 above.
Hierarchy of Knowledge
In order to support an argument
information needs to be credible, if has to
have ‘academic weight’.
Wikipedia vs. Academic
Literature
Which of the above has been:Well researched?
Checked?
Peer reviewed?
Credible?
Academic integrity
1.Being open and honest about where you get
your information from, and thinking carefully
about what kind of ‘evidence’ you have for your
claims
2.This honesty is also essential when you are
writing. Your reader needs to be able to see
where you got your information from, in order
to be convinced about what you are saying.
More information
Check out the Referencing FAQs on the
Academic Skills area on LS
http://moodle.marjon.ac.uk/course/view.p
hp?id=712
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