Showing posts with label BA seminar; MA seminar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BA seminar; MA seminar. Show all posts

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Cite them right: the essential guide to referencing and plagiarism

This is a wonderful position - everything you should know about referencing. It shows how to do in-text citations and how to create bibliography. It includes lots of useful tips and discusses an abundance of resources, also untypical ones such as blogs, computer programs, unpublishes theses, etc.
Highly recommended! Available under the link:
Cite tem right

Sunday, 16 February 2014

Checking your references

In order to check whether you get your references right you may try Swansea University website. The library has got a tool called 'cite this right' which gives reerences for the selected item in MLA and APA formats.
Simply eneter the details of the searched item in the ifind discover window at https://ifind.swan.ac.uk/discover/
then select the position you are looking for and click 'cite this right' in the options window at the right hand side.

Anti-plagiarism software

Antyplagiat.pl available at https://www.plagiat.pl/webplagiat/main.action
is the software our University uses to check whether your thesis is a plagiarism. You may try it out yourself before you submit your thesis. The procedure is straightforward. You have to create an account on the website and then upload the file you want to check against plagiarism. Unfortunately, you need to pay for this checking.

Citavi4

A free software for creating references in the text and bibliography at the end of your thesis.
We will be trying it out in the class.
https://www.citavi.com/en/index.html