A2 Photography

1. Researching and writing at
academic level

2. Plagiarism
 What is plagiarism?
 Copying another student‟s work.
 Copying and pasting information from
the internet.
 Copying out information from a source
without referencing it.

3. TV Industry Report
 What sources of information can you
use?
 Websites
 Books
 TV Programmes
 Newspaper/magazine articles

4. Internet searching
 Use a good search engine, eg. Google
 Don‟t use Wikipedia
 Be as precise as you can to avoid
excessive sites
 Don‟t let yourself be distracted!

5. Referencing within a text
 Remember you get more marks for showing research
with references than for claiming ideas as your own!
 Ideas and theories need attributing to their source.
 All sources must be acknowledged or you risk
plagiarism!
 Direct quotes need containing within single quotation
marks (keyboard apostrophe) and are best in italic
font.
 Make sure you refer to the author and page number
of the text as well as the quote.

6. Referencing within a text
 “Both BBC2 and Channel 4 were set up to
provide an alternative to mainstream
stations.” (O‟Sullivan:253)
OR
 It is important for Channel 4 to “cater for
tastes, interests and audiences not served by
ITV”. (O‟Sullivan:253)

7. Bibliography
 What is a bibliography?
 A list of sources that you have used to
inform your work.
 This is placed at the end of your work.
 Each source should be acknowledged
even if you haven‟t included a direct
quote.

8. Recording sources in a
bibliography (Harvard style)
For written texts, you will need the
following details:
 Author: surname and initial/s or Editor
 Date of publication
 Full title
 Publishers
 Place of publication

9. So it looks like this…
Wood R. (2007) Study Skills for Right
Brain Learners ,London, Educational
Press
* Arrange your authors in alphabetical
order by surname

10. Recording internet sources in
a bibliography (Harvard style)
For internet sources, you will need:
 Name of author/writer/originator
 Title of the piece
 Full web address
 Date last accessed

11. It looks like this…
Wood, R. How students learn, The
Guardian dated 25.05.09, accessed on-
line on 20.10.09
or
www.ifl.org.uk
accessed on Tuesday 2nd December 2008

12. And avoid…
 Overlong sentences
 Rambling sentences
 Starting on one point and then drifting to another
 Over reliance on „spell check‟
 Errors over punctuation Capital letters (BTEC, IfL etc)
 Commas ( to help digest long sentences)
 Colons ( you might need to offer a list)
 Semi-colons ( when you have two sentences in one)
 Apostrophes