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Writing an essay/assignment

Compiling the bibliography
   
 

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About Information Literacy

STEP 1: STARTING out

STEP 2: FINDING

STEP 3: EVALUATE

STEP 4: Legal & ethical USE

STEP 5: COMMUNICATE

- Writing an essay/assignment

Consulting sources

Reading and making notes

Preparing the bibliography

In-text referencing

Compiling the bibliography

Example

Elements required

Author, Personal

Author, Corporate

Author, Vague

Date of publication

Title

Sub-title

Edition

Place of publication

Publisher

Journal article

Harvard style

Vancouver

Abbreviations for USA

More information

Writing the first draft

Revising the assignment

Writing final draft

Collating the assignment

Checking the final draft

Example

- Tips for presentations

- Tips for posters

- Tips for brochures

- Tips for displays

- E-communication guidelines

- Writing styles

- Quiz
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Author, corporate

The "statement of responsibility" for the publication could be

  • a government, e.g. SOUTH AFRICA. Dept of Home Affairs
  • or a corporate source such as a university or technikon, a research institute or international organisation, e.g.

CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
NATIONAL LIBRARY OF SOUTH AFRICA
UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION