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Bibliographies

  • 12-10-2011 8:12pm
    #1
    millivanilli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 131 ✭✭


    does anyone know if you lose a lot of marks for leaving out a source in your bibliography? handed in an english essay today realised i left out one source i had quoted in the essay eep stoopid mistake i know. just wondering if you'd actually lose marks over it?


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  • #2
    Nailz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,688 ✭✭✭Nailz


    You do English?? Never mind.

    Just let that particular lecturer/tutor know, and they might do something to help you out, as regards letting you provisionally add the source, or just letting them know what the source was. It's the fact that you're acknowledging the source is the main thing, though, I can imagine they'll be happy with you for that.


  • #3
    cmegzc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 54 ✭✭cmegzc


    I would contact your lecturer or tutor ASAP! Even if you acknowledged it in your essay body, without the full reference, it is possible you could get called up for plagiarism for not citing the source. I would be more worried about the possibility of you getting an automatic failure.

    http://www.nuigalway.ie/english/plagiarism.html

    It's always better to over-cite than to under-cite sources! I'm a final year English and history and sometimes I'm unsure whether I need to cite something so I do it anyway just to be sure.


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