Academic Level
There are many levels of learning and courses from National
Vocational Qualification to Higher Education. The Directgov is an archieved government
website but it provides an explanation about each level and education
framework. Within a university programme
there are different levels
of academic study to achieve.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
is an important issue in academic writing which has serious
consequences. Merlin
Helps Students provide some examples of plagiarism. You need to learn how
to avoid this form of copying.
Dawson, M. M.& Overfield, J. A., 2006, Plagiarism: Do
Students Know What It Is?, Bioscience education, Vol 8
Some plagiarism detection sites:
Technical
Review of free-text plagiarism detection software (document can be
downloaded at the bottom of the page.
Referencing
One of the ways of ensuring that you avoid plagiarism in
your assignment is to correctly reference all your writing. There are some specific
elements that should be referenced within your assignment.
There is an online
guide to referencing academic work; another site for
Guide to Referencing (various)
The different referencing systems used by various subjects,
academic institutions, journals -
Harvard
Referencing System (is the most commonly used system)
Modern
Humanities Research Association (can be downloaded from this site)
Open
University (Harvard, but might vary in different faculties the Open
University version can be found as a handout which you can download)
BMJ
referencing styles are identified on this site.
