2. What is plagiarism? Presenting someone else’s work as your own. Including: Another person’s actual words (written and spoken) Another person’s ideas or theories Facts/statistics that are not common knowledge

3. Why refer to other people’s work? To show you have researched the topic To show your knowledge of the subject To support your opinions

4. Quotations and Bibliographies Quoting Including passages or ideas from books and articles within your assignment Writing a bibliography Writing a list of all the books and articles you have used

5. The manner in which work organisations function are affected greatly by cultural and historical influences. It is argued that “a historical awareness must be part of any critical study of organisational activity in our time” (Watson, 2006, p. 35). Watson, T. J. (2006) Organising and managing work. 2 nd edition. Harlow: Pearson Education.

6. Direct quotations Direct copying of a section from a book, journal article, website etc.

7. Direct quotation from a book “If you are granted access for research inside the organisation use your time to gather data that is not available elsewhere”. (Heath, 1997, p. 65). ◦ Quote in quotation marks ◦ In brackets after the quote (author’s surname, year of publication, page number)

8. Direct quotation from a website “This year Ikea says it will spend about $163m on grassroots development programs in India alone, and has been working with agencies like the United Nations Development Programme and Unicef” (Dutt, 2010). ◦ Quote in quotation marks ◦ In brackets after the quote (author’s surname OR organisation, date of publication)

9. Indirect quotations Reference to an idea credited to an author Putting an author’s ideas into your own words

10. Indirect quotation from a book Teaching assistants may be involved in helping and monitoring volunteers. An important part of this will involve the induction of volunteers and providing them with all the information they need (Kamen, 2008, p.150). ◦ No quotation marks for indirect quotes ◦ In brackets after the information (author’s surname, year of publication, page number)

11. Armstrong, D. (1996) From Versailles to Maastricht. Basingstoke: MacMillan. Graham, H. T. and Bennett, R. (1995) Human resources management. 8th ed. London: Pitman. Grannall, C. (2009) CSS: create collapsible tables [online]. Available from: http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine /develop-css/create-collapsible-tables (accessed 1 November 2011). How to create a bibliography