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Help: Referencing & Plagiarism

What is Referencing? 

Referencing is how you acknowledge that you have used someone else's ideas or words in your work. Citing where you found your information helps validate your work, allows your reader to follow up on information, and protects you from committing plagiarism (which is a form of cheating).

 

Referencing Made Easy at TasTAFE

 

Referencing Handouts

 

Avoiding Plagarism 

"Simply put, plagiarism is the act of taking someone else’s work and presenting it as your own. Committing plagiarism is unethical and a breach of academic integrity" - (BibGuru, 2023)

 

Under TasTAFE's Student Code of Conduct you have a responsibility to "provide authentic original assessment evidence and not engage in plagiarism or cheating in any assessment."

Harvard Referencing with BibGuru

TasTAFE uses the Harvard (cite them right) Referencing Style. Use the BibGuru Harvard citation generator to make referencing easy and turn your sources into references in just a click! 

 

 

BibGuru Browser Extension  

You can cite from Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge directly with BibGuru’s browser extension.

BibGuru now features a Chrome and Edge extension

Referencing books

Cite them right : the essential referencing guide

Essential study skills

Communications toolkit

Cite them right : the essential referencing guide

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