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Foundations of Computing 1004ICT

Researching and Referencing

Developed by Felicity Berends and John Thornton


Today’s Learning Outcomes

Finding information for your assignment topics by: Identifying information needs Identifying keywords Choosing the right tool

Referencing: Why reference? How to reference


First steps to finding assignment material

• Analyse the topic• Research the topic • Identify types of information needed• Search efficiently and effectively• Use the correct tools to search• Evaluate the information found


Refereed or Peer-reviewed articles

To ensure that articles submitted to academic

journals are accurate and reliable, a group of

subject experts will read an article and recommend

its publication, revision or rejection.

This process is known as “peer-review” or

“refereeing” and it guarantees that published

articles are of a high quality.


Use the correct tools to find the information you need.

• Use the correct Tool to find items for your assignment

Library Catalogue for books, videos, kits Library Databases for journal articles, newspaper articles


What is a database?

Databases provide descriptions of journal articles within

specific subject areas

Databases are frequently updated with new information

A database may also provide a summary of the article

content.

Some databases provide access to the electronic version

of the article (full text).


Tips for searching the databases

Each database may provide different results for the same

search strategy.

Each database will recognise the keyword connectors (and, or,

not) differently.

Check out the databases’ help guides for information about

how to search

Look for PDF version of articles (full text)


Activity

Use the Library Catalogue to identify an information resource you could use in writing your first assessment item.

Use the Library Databases to identify an information resource you could use in writing your first assessment item.


ActivityPerform a search in Google and evaluate a resource from

the results list using the following criteria:When was it published? What are the author's qualifications? Are there footnotes/endnotes, a bibliography? Provenance of web site. From where does the web site originate?

Government? Commercial? Organisation? Educational?

Is the web site maintained regularly? Is the information up-to-date? Does the web site display bias? Compare to results from Google Scholar.


What have you learned so far today?1. Think about what you are being asked to do2. Identify your keywords3. Identify what types of information you need4. Search the right tool (catalogue, database, web)5. Evaluate

The next step is to write your assignment using the information you have found, using referencing to indicate where you have used the ideas of others and where you have got these ideas/information from.


Referencing & Plagiarism What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of someone else's words, ideas, evidence, data, arguments and/or opinions.

How do you avoid plagiarism?To avoid plagiarism, you are required to acknowledge ideas and/or

opinions of others by providing both in-text referencing and a Reference List that are accurate and complete.

What is referencing?Providing publishing information for all information sources used in an

assessment/paper so others can find this information.

How do you reference?


APA (American Psychological Association) Referencing Style

Rules for the preparation of manuscripts. Includes rules that relate to: Content and organisation Expressing ideas and reducing bias Editorial style Reference list Manuscript preparation Manuscript acceptance and production


ReferencingIn-text citations: where you acknowledge within the text of your paper the

source for an idea/opinion you have used that is not your own.

Shaped by the work of engineers and architects, early planning ideas were chiefly influenced by modernist thought in relation to industrial urbanisation, as technologies that enabled the regulation of building form and location became available (Healy, 1997, pp. 17-18).

Reference list: where you provide a full list at the end of the paper of all sources of ideas/opinions you have used in the paper that are not your own.

Healy, P. (1997). Collaborative planning: Shaping places in fragmented societies. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.


Reference list examples

Gleeson, B. & Low, G. (2002). Australian urban planning: new challenges and new agendas. Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Author/sTitle

Year

Publication details

Answer: Book



Coiacetto, E. (2007). The Role of the Development Industry in Shaping Urban Social Space: a Conceptual Model. Geographical Research, 45(4), 340–347.

Article Title

Author/s Year

Journal TitlePublication details and pages

Answer: Journal article



O'Hanlon, S. (2005). Cities, suburbs and communities. In M. Lyons & P. Russell (Eds.), Australia's history : themes and debates (pp. 198-230). Sydney, NSW: University of New South Wales Press.

Year

Book Title Publication details and pages

Answer: Book chapter

Chapter Title

Editor/s

Author/s


Activity

Create references for the information resources you found in your search of the catalogue and databases earlier today.


Examples: Electronic Journals

Where the online article is an exact version of a print article:

Mather, D. (2006). Extended memory: early calculating engines and historical computer simulations [Electronic version]. Leonardo, 39(3), 237-243.

Year Article Title

Journal TitleRetrieval statement

Vol, iss & pp.

Author



Where an online article presents a print article with additional material or in a different form:

Ray, O. (2004). How the mind hurts and heals the body. American Psychologist, 59, 29-40. Retrieved January 12, 2005, from http://www.apa.org/journals/amp/amp59129.pdf

YearArticle Title

Journal TitleURL Retrieval

statement

Author



Where an article appears only in online form:

Costarelli, S., & Calla, R.M. (2004). Self-directed negative effect: The distinct roles of ingroup identification and outgroup derogation. Current Research in Social Psychology, 10(2). Retrieved January 12, 2005, from http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Egrpproc/crisp/crisp.10.2.html

Article TitleYear

Journal Title

URLRetrieval statement

Author/s


Examples: Electronic Encyclopaedia

Babbage, Charles (1792–1871). (2008). AccessScience, The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Online. Retrieved March 12, 2008, from http://www.accessscience.com.libraryproxy.griffith.edu.au/content.aspx?id=M0090018

Article Title Year

Encyclopaedia Title URL

Retrieval statement


APA Referencing Style - Resources

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

Perrin, R. (2007). Pocket Guide to APA Style (2nd ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Also see the APA web site :– http://www.apastyle.org Griffith University Referencing Tool:- http://app.griffith.edu.

au/reference_tool/index-core.php Purdue University APA Formatting and Style Guide :-

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/Note the Griffith Referencing Tool gets the World Wide Web

references slightly wrong - the “Retrieved from….” clause should always contain the date you did the actual retrieval, as in “Retrieved March 17, 2010, from …”


More help

Online resources:

Library Research Tutorial http://www.griffith.edu.au/ins/lrt

People resources:

InfoServices (Desk, phone, email, IM) Learning Services website, workshops and advisers Lecturers, supervisors, tutors, mentors and classmates

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