Plagiarism and Referencing (Who, Where, Why, What, When, How) – How I would enlighten to a new college student.

I will explain Plagiarism to a new student as "act of taking the writings of another person and passing them off as one’s own" (Britannica, n.d.).  I will let the student understand that in academic writing, one can use other people's work, but just have to state the original source of the materials used. And when this is not done, there are great consequences.  Some consequences as stated by Viper the Anti-Plagiarism scanner are:

• "Plagiarism can get you expelled from your course. 
• Plagiarism can result in your work being destroyed. 
• Plagiarism can result in expulsion from your academic institution. 
• Plagiarism can result in legal action."  

A very good example of the extend  to which plagiarism can be damaging, is seen in William Boston article in Time World of March 03, 2011.......
 
"Plagiarism Claims Take Down Guttenberg" 

  







While in explaining Referencing, I would say, it means that you "include detailed information on all sources consulted, both within your text (in-text citations) and at the end of your work (reference list or bibliography)" (QUB, n.d.).  Then the (Who, Where, Why, What, When, How), means giving details of the author(s), place, purpose, subject, date, books, video or internet sources consulted.  
I will make them understand that Referencing is the only way of telling whoever is reading the material, where you got your facts from. This in turn adds credibility to your work.  Most importantly it is a way of saying "I acknowledge my debt to this writer (or writers) for helping me with my work" (UOR, n.d.).  There are different styles of referencing and each school may adopt slight variations on the style of referencing that is acceptable.  But here in ITB, the Harvard style is what is acceptable and the Student's Handbook have further information on it or they can check it out in the Hertfordshire University web site. 















References:

Boston W, (2011). Plagiarism Claims Take Down Guttenberg [online] ://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2056525,00.html (Accessed 13 November 2012).

Britannica, (n.d.). Plagiarism. [online] Encyclopedia Britannica. Available at:  ://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/462640/plagiarism. (Accessed 8 December 2012).

QUB (n.d.) Referencing Made Easy [online] Queen University, Belfast. Available at:  http://www.qub.ac.uk/cite2write/introduction.html  (Accessed 3 December 2012).

UOR (n.d.). What is referencing Anyway? [online] University of Roehampton, London. Available at: http://studentzone.roehampton.ac.uk/howtostudy/plagiarism/whatisreferencing/index.html (Accessed 7 December 2012).

Viper, (n.d.) Consequences of plagiarism [online] Time World. Availiable at: http://www.scanmyessay.com/plagiarism/consequences-of-plagiarism.php. (Accessed 1 December 2012)