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  • 23-12-2003 5:44pm
    #1
    bus77
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    I often see at the back of refernce books, a listing of sorces used.
    Is this just a courtesy or am I legally obliged to include such a list?


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  • #2
    Specky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭Specky


    This is how you get around the issue of plagiarism.

    If you use information you've obtained from another source then you must list this source otherwise it's like you're claiming the information as your own which would infringe the other persons copyright. By stating that the information is not yours and where it actually came from you are not.

    Proper referencing is also one of the principle foundations of academic writing, without which your work will not have authority.


  • #3
    bus77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,313 ✭✭✭bus77


    Ok nice one Specky, thats cleared that up nicely.
    Ill wont forget to give ya a mention in my book:)


  • #4
    Specky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 914 ✭✭✭Specky


    Will that make me famous or infamous I wonder...

    ...as Kenneth Williams so famously once said in his role as Julius Caesar "Infamy, Infamy!!...they've all got it infamy!"


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