Flashcards on Academic Writing and Referencing
Academic Writing and Referencing: A Student Guide
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Academic citation
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Card 1
Question: What are the three ways of incorporating material from other sources in academic writing?
Answer: Summary, paraphrase, and direct quotation (all are forms of citation).
Card 2
Question: Why is proper referencing important in academic writing?
Answer: Failure to reference appropriately can be plagiarism because readers may think you claim others' ideas as your own; references acknowledge sources, li
Card 3
Question: What is the purpose of the Reference Section?
Answer: To list all sources cited in the text, acknowledge and link to original sources, allow readers to follow up, and show which material is cited.
Card 4
Question: Define citation in academic writing.
Answer: Acknowledging the source of ideas when referring to an author's work in your writing.
Card 5
Question: How should direct quotations be presented?
Answer: Use quotation marks and quote the words exactly as in the original source.
Card 6
Question: Give an example of a direct quotation citation for Scovel (1998).
Answer: Scovel (1998) states the model of speech production with most influence is ‘a progression of four successive stages: (1) conceptualization, (2) formul
Card 7
Question: How can you paraphrase the idea about Scovel's model of speech production?
Answer: One paraphrase: One of the most influential models for speech production views it as a four-stage process (Scovel, 1998).
Card 8
Question: What are reporting verbs and give two examples used in the content?
Answer: Reporting verbs indicate how you present others' ideas; examples: 'argues' (Scovel 1998 argues...) and 'claims' (Brown 2013 claims...).
Card 9
Question: In the reference 'Scovel, T. (1998). p.27. Psycholinguistics: Oxford Introduction to Language Study. Oxford: Oxford University Press', which element i
Answer: Scovel, T. (element a).
Card 10
Question: In the same reference, which element is the year of publication?
Answer: 1998 (element d).