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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.
List 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
Summary
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.
