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DESIGN CULTURE REFERENCE NOTES


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1: Harvard Referencing System
Introduction
There are many reasons for using references and bibliographies in your written work. One important reason is to demonstrate the range and depth of your research. By deploying quotations in your texts and by identifying sources of information, views and opinions, you are indicating to a reader how you have acquired your knowledge and you are also reinforcing your argument - making it more persuasive.
Clear and accurate referencing offers the reader the opportunity to understand how your arguments and ideas have been initiated and developed. It is a vital part of the dialogue of scholarship. It is also, of course, essential that you distinguish clearly between your own ideas and arguments and those of other people, if you are to avoid committing, and being charged with, plagiarism (see below).
You will, therefore, need to find out about referencing and the use of bibliographies early on in your studies, and work to develop your skills in these areas. Good referencing is not mechanical – it involves awareness and sensitivity - and it needs to be accurate, consistent and comprehensive.
Besides studying the brief notes given here, you will need to consult works in the library and on the student portal (http://students.plymouth.ac.uk) about research and referencing. We will also be discussing and emphasising the importance of referencing in the Research Skills module.
As mentioned at 9. above, for all your written work on the MA programme you are required to use the Harvard Referencing System. In exceptional circumstances you can make a case for using an alternative system if you think the Harvard system is inappropriate for the particular text you are writing.

Plagiarism
On the cover sheet for each piece of written work you are asked to affirm, by...