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10 Working with other people’s ideas and voices

Encyclopedia or dictionary
Longman dictionary of contemporary English (1978) London: Longman

Note the following:

I title of publication
I date
I publishing location
I publisher.

It is important to check which system is used by your department but also by indi-
vidual lecturers. Handbooks supplied by your subject leaders usually provide a
referencing guide.

Activity 10.13 Finding and correcting errors on reference list

Find and correct the mistakes in the following five references. There may be more
than one mistake in each reference.
Thompson. (2001) Interaction in Academic Writing: Learning to Argue with the Reader. Applied
Linguistics, 22, 58–78.
Davies, S. (2006) The essential guide to teaching. Harlow.
Jeffries, S. (2008, 21 August) The ice age. The Guardian, pp 4–6.
Brassington, F. and Pettitt, S. Principles of marketing (4th edn.) Harlow: Pearson Education.
Holden J (ed.) (2008) Physical Geography and the Environment. 2nd edn. Pearson
Education.

Activity 10.14 Find the overall error

Looking at the five references above as a whole and ignoring the numbering, what
is the overall error?

Activity 10.15 The mechanics of referencing

Write a reference list using the style shown in the example above for the following
three quotes:

1 This quote can be found on page 197 of a book called ‘Psychology’. The book was
written by 3 authors: Dr G. Neil Martin, Dr Neil R. Carlson and Dr William Buskist. This
third edition was published in 2007 by Pearson Education, in London. ‘One of the key
features of the visual system is that it is organised hierarchically at the neural level.’

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