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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

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Elements required

Harvard style

Vancouver

Abbreviations for USA

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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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Harvard Referencing Style

Book: Chapter from a book with different contributors
Authors. Date. Title: subtitle of the chapter. (In Edit ors of book (eds.), Title of book. Place: Publisher. Page references.)

Harvard Puttnam, R.A. 1981. The place of values in a world of facts. (In Duff, A. & Smithson, W.O., (eds). The nature of the physical universe. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall. p. 124-139.)
Notes
  • You have consulted a chapter of the book. The chapter is by one person (or more) and the book by another (or more).
  • The title of the book is in italics, NOT the title of the chapter.
  • NJ = State of New Jersey in the USA.
  • Bibliographic detail of the book starts with a round bracket before the "In".
  • Name(s) of author(s) of book is given in inverted format (Last name, First Name)


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