Student Learning
Referencing skills
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Examples of paragraphs with quotes | Themes |
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Education | Hierarchy of needs. (Example of misquoting to beware). |
Treaty of Waitangi. (Example of patch writing to beware.) | |
Philosophy | Plato's problem with democracy. |
Mill's utilitarianism and conflict with justice. | |
Locke and the quality of objects. | |
Biology | Koi Carp in Waikato. (Example of an irrelevant quote.) |
Examples of paraphrases | Themes |
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Geography | Developing nations and economic strategies. |
Developing nations and economic strategies. (Common knowledge) | |
Philosophy | Plato's criticism of democracy. (Paragraphing annotations included) |
Types of sources often cited in university assignments.
Book - one author
Chapter from an edited book
Printed journal
Course readings
Magazine
Online magazine
Blog posts
Books with one author - the little features of punctuation that students sometimes miss.
Books with two or more authors - what to do in your reference list and citations when there is more than one author.
This resource was developed by Katherine Gilliver-Brown, Student Learning, Faculty of Education. This project is designed to help students to learn to recognise the elements of writing that contribute to the quality of a text. Thank you to the following people:
- Jim Fulton,Ben Shuker, Daisy Ager, and Dawn Marsh for contributing excerpts or activity content.
Enjoy - Katherine