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REFERENCING YOUR RESEARCH FOR YOUR 4510 TERM PAPER

REFERENCING YOUR RESEARCH FOR YOUR 4510 TERM PAPER. OVERVIEW What is academic referencing? Why is it important for your 4510 term paper? How is it done?. What is referencing?. CONSIDER - KNOWLEDGE creation academic tradition and technique

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REFERENCING YOUR RESEARCH FOR YOUR 4510 TERM PAPER

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  1. REFERENCING YOUR RESEARCH FOR YOUR 4510 TERM PAPER OVERVIEW • What is academic referencing? • Why is it important for your 4510 term paper? • How is it done?

  2. What is referencing? CONSIDER - • KNOWLEDGE creation • academic tradition and technique Information on sources of any ideas, etc. that people other than you created

  3. Why is referencing important ? Adds CREDIBILITY • opinions versus conclusions Gives CREDIT to originator • Intellectual property OWNERSHIP Failure to reference can be PLAGIARISM

  4. Skills you can develop doing your term paper: • obtaining relevant source material • understanding • synthesis / integration • evaluation / analysis • written communication • academic referencing technique

  5. How to reference ? REFERENCING IS HARD WORK !! Good practice: Keep reference information on everything you read in researching your paper

  6. Referencing styles A variety of methods exist Be consistent within your own paper

  7. What information is required ? • Author(s) • Title • article title & journal name, or • book title • Publication date • For books: Publisher, city • For Web sites: URL (incl. date viewed) e.g. www.cica.ca/news/cpab.htm (Jan.11,2003)

  8. Academic referencing components • brief reference information in text * • quotation marks, if applicable * • footnotes / endnotes • reference list * • bibliography * these are required

  9. Referencing exercise See Handout • these are extracts from an accounting journal paper showing different referencing situations For example, to reference this paper • In the body of your paper’s text use: (Hartgraves and Benston 2002) • In the Reference List use: Hartgraves, A. and G. Benston. 2002. The Evolving Accounting Standards for Special Purpose Entities and Consolidations, Accounting Horizons 16(3): 245-258.

  10. Referencing exercise 1. Write a sentence about this paper. 2. Write a sentence that refers to this paper. Response 1: Hartgraves and Bentson (2002) provide a detailed summary of the U.S. accounting standards for special purpose entities. Response 2: U.S. accounting standards for special purpose entities had been evolving since the early 1970s but contained important weaknesses at the time of the Enron scandal (Hartgraves and Bentson 2002) .

  11. Referencing exercise cont. Another Response 2: Enron had set up a complex structure containing a large number of special purpose entities, with the main purpose being to avoid disclosing significant financial obligations while still complying with existing U.S. accounting standards. (Hartgraves and Bentson 2002; Powers et al. 2002) .

  12. GREAT SUCCESS ON YOUR PAPER!

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