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When you refer to someone else's work in the text of your assignment what is this called?
A citation or in-text citation. In an author (date) style such as Harvard this information would be shown as follows:Nielsen (2000) argues against using frames in website design...
With the full reference being:Nielsen, J. (2000) Designing web usability. Indiana: New Riders Publishing.
However in a numbered referencing style your in-text citation would be shown thus:Nieslen argues against using frames in website design and goes on to say that if frames have to be used then they should be used sparingly [1].
The reference(s) would then be listed by their number.[1] NIELSEN, J. Designing web usability. Indiana: New Riders Publishing, 2000.
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Sources that you use for background reading but do not directly refer to in your work should be listed in a what?
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A piece of text that contains all the information a reader needs to identify and locate a source is called a what?
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If you use others' work without distinguishing it from your own, what you will have committed?
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How would you cite a source by Smith, published in 2003?
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How would you cite a source by Jackson, Philips and Cook from 1997?
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How would you cite the work of Lee (from 1999) if it was referred to on page 8 of Hill (2001)?
