8 Slide referencing research

Why do we reference?

To show that we’ve READ our research materials and understood it

Referencing is an acknowledgment of another person's intellectual work which rightfully belongs to that person. The act of using and not referencing another person's work is called plagiarism

Why do we reference? (cont.)

Referencing makes it possible for your reader to locate your sources independently, whether out of interest or the need to verify your information.

By referring to the work of others you are INDICATING THAT YOU HAVE READ WIDELY, that you have relied on quality sources and that you are aware of the body of knowledge that already exists on your topic.

Whenever you QUOTE, PARAPHRASE or SUMMARISE someone else's opinions, theories or data

Also reference any graphical information you use such as tables, photos or diagrams

Citation in the text of your work.

Any citation within the text of a document should be linked to the corresponding bibliographic reference at the end of your work.

In the text you refer to a particular document by using the author's surname and year of publication.

9 Slide Critical Thinks

interpretation means “to comprehend and express the meaning or significance of a wide variety of experiences, situations, data, events, judgments, conventions, beliefs, rules, procedures or criteria”;

Sub-skills includes categorisation, decoding significance, and clarifying meaning.

analysis means “to identify the intended and actual inferential relationships among statements, questions, concepts, descriptions, or other forms of representations intended to express belief and judgments”;

Sub-skills includes examining ideas, detecting arguments.

inference means “to identify and secure elements needed to draw reasonable conclusions; to form conjectures and hypotheses;

to consider relevant information and to educe the consequences flowing from data, statements, principles, evidence, judgments, beliefs, opinions, concepts, descriptions, questions, or other forms of representation.”

Explanation as being able “to state the results of one’s reasoning;

to justify that reasoning in terms of the evidential, conceptual, methodological, criteriological, and contextual considerations upon which one’s results were based;

and to present one’s reasoning in the form of cogent arguments.”

self-regulation to mean “self-consciously to monitor one’s cognitive activities, the elements used in those activities, and the results educed;

particularly by applying skills in analysis, and evaluation to one’s own inferential judgments with a view toward questioning, confirming, validation, or correcting either one’s reasoning or one’s results.”

evaluation means “To assess the credibility of statements or other representations”;

It means judging an author or piece of research materials based on certain evaluative criteria such as author credibility, alternative authors and reference materials.

Imagine you have been invited to a movie by a friend. But it’s not a movie you want to see.

So, your friend asks you why. You give your honest reason — the movie offends your sense of decency, not because of the language used or the sexuality portrayed, but because of the violence it depicts so graphically.