Miller (1992, p. 86) tells us that Revolution “the ….liberties”. This section aims to provide guidance in paraphrasing and avoiding plagiarism, and directs you to instructions on how to reference correctly. Talking about other ideas people’s need to pay particular attention to the language you use to introduce ideas or You’ll information from a source, and to relate ideas to each other. Sometimes students try to vary their vocabulary so their writing look repetitive, and at the risks of this won’t we’ve looked strategy at the beginning of Chapter 2. particularly risky if the words you are varying, just It’s for the sake of variation, are words that bring ideas from other sources into your writing – Bloggs says/ reports/ points out/ claims/ asserts/ assumes/ argues/ notes/ mentions/ writes/etc. The reason you should be careful is that these words are not variants of “says” – each one means something slightly different, or even very different. For example, if you say that Bloggs or that World War Two ended in 1945, going to look “asserts” “claims” you’re foolish, because a claim can be made only about something that is not established fact. In another example, if you say that Bloggs something that is in fact main “mentions” Bloggs’ idea, it will look like you recognise it as her main idea to mention something means to didn’t – give it only brief attention. The reason these kinds of words are so important is that one of the most fundamental academic values is that we construct knowledge by sharing, discussing and contesting ideas, so it matters who says what, and how they say it, and how it relates to the things that other scholars have said. Your tutors want you to be aware of how different ideas are scholars’ related, and to reflect that awareness in your writing. Referencing There are two places where references need to be included in a piece of writing:
Miller (1992, p. 86) tells us that “the Revolution ….liberties”. This section aims to provide guidance in paraphrasing and avoiding plagiarism, and directs you to instructions on how to reference correctly. Talking about other people’s ideas You’ll need to pay particular attention to the language you use to introduce ideas or information from a source, and to relate ideas to each other. Sometimes students try to vary their vocabulary so their writing won’t look repetitive, and we’ve looked at the risks of this strategy at the beginning of Chapter 2. It’s particularly risky if the words you are varying, just for the sake of variation, are words that bring ideas from other sources into your writing – Bloggs says/ reports/ points out/ claims/ asserts/ assumes/ argues/ notes/ mentions/ writes/etc. The reason you should be careful is that these words are not variants of “says” – each one means something slightly different, or even very different. For example, if you say that Bloggs “asserts” or “claims” that World War Two ended in 1945, you’re going to look foolish, because a claim can be made only about something that is not established fact. In another example, if you say that Bloggs “mentions” something that is in fact Bloggs’ main idea, it will look like you didn’t recognise it as her main idea – to mention something means to give it only brief attention. The reason these kinds of words are so important is that one of the most fundamental academic values is that we construct knowledge by sharing, discussing and contesting ideas, so it matters who says what, and how they say it, and how it relates to the things that other scholars have said. Your tutors want you to be aware of how different scholars’ ideas are related, and to reflect that awareness in your writing. Referencing There are two places where references need to be included in a piece of writing:
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