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Main Contents Page
Before you start
STEP 1: STARTING OUT
STEP 2: FINDING
STEP 3: EVALUATE
STEP 4: LEGAL USE
STEP 5: COMMUNICATE
- Writing a report/assignment
Consulting information 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
APA style
Vancouver style
Chicago style
Abbreviations for USA
Other links
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

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Writing the report / assignment
The elements required to compile a bibliography
Publisher
- Do not confuse the publisher and the printer.
- Do not include unnecessary and unwieldy parts of the publisher's
name, such as & co., ltd., press, & associates etc.
- Some examples:
Phaidon (NOT Phaidon Press Limited)
Longman
Penguin
HAUM
Methuen
Nasou
Van Nostrand
McGraw-Hill
Routledge & Kegan Paul (note the use of the ampersand
"&")
- If no publisher can be found, use s.n. (sine
nomine). [Use italics for the Harvard method]
[For the APA method, no italics, e.g. s.n. (sine
nomine)].
- NB. University presses: note that there is a difference
between a work published by Oxford University Press or by
Oxford University.
- NB. Publishers are not always commercial undertakings.
They may be government or corporate bodies (e.g. UNESCO,
World Health Organisation, Organisation for African Unity,
African National Congress, etc.).
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