When preparing your assignment take care to acknowledge all the materials you quoted, paraphrased or mentioned. There are conventional ways to acknowledge other authors and you could use the information at any of the following links to guide you.

• Prepare in advance by keeping a complete list of the details of all your source materials - this way you will avoid a lot of time backtracking. An easy way to do this is to visit the site Effective academic reading at http://learn.mq.edu.au/pub/UCHSTIME and make a paper copy of the Reading register , then copy and use this form to note details of all the articles you read on the way.

• You will normally use the Harvard referencing system here.

See the web page on this site headed Plagiarism for examples of plagiarising and information on the University's policy against plagiarism.