Referencing for assignments.

[willhub]

Hi.

So I think I need to improve my referencing, or I'm not going to get far in uni, I gather I will not be taught about referencing in uni, I start in the second year. I have never really being taught about referencing, we got told in college that we must do it, so I've attempted it in my assignments.

I've done referencing in different ways.

Out of these 2 assignments and the different types of referencing in these, is any of the referencing correct?

https://docs.google.com/document/ed...MLBf-_i7xfsVkKxnF-2X8&hl=en&authkey=CKHNrPUB#

https://docs.google.com/document/ed...CUn2PPCIwuwffg6qYzPY0&authkey=CKvM-cYC&hl=en#


Thanks
Will.

 

[willhub]

What exactly does this reference manager software do? Is it just software I put links in?

So in my documents where I've put, author, date, I should have also placed the link with it? Seems odd surely because links are long and would make an assignment look scruffy no?

 

[willhub]

Oh, so this referencing software, you basically type in the author, name, title etc... and it just outputs all these details into the format you wish, such as Harvard referencing? Then you just copy and paste into the reference area of the assignment?

 

[willhub]

I'll try one of these referencing packages sometime see if I can get the hang of it.

Also another question, in uni, you get minimal lectures, then you get your "assignment", and that's it, you have to go away, complete it, and hand it in. So basically, as dumb as this sounds, you plan what you need to work on, then go looking in books, read about the subject, understand some of it, then of course, start typing it up.

Now some of it, do you basically rewrite some of the content you've found in a book, in your own words, and quote some of it?

What I've wrote sounds abit like....... what someone in high school would write lol, but I'm trying to gauge how doing uni work is different from college work.

I'm guessing it might be some of these points:

Uni assignments:

Longer
The subjects are harder
You need to write in massively more detail
And regulations on how you do things in assignments may perhaps be allot more strict?

I'm pretty scare of Uni, and if I will cope, so I'm trying to get an idea of these "basic" things.

 

[willhub]

I don't have a mac.

I am doing a course at Salford Uni, manic_man.

I am starting in the second year, the reason being, I have had 2 years finance from SFE (Student Finance England), and I am only able to get 4 years.

So I have to start in the second year as SFE will not pay for the first at all. I have year 2, then placement year, then year 3.