Plagiarism can get a student thrown out of university, yet many students do not understand exactly how to avoid it and why it is so important. Fortunately, Professor Bear explains it all in this 4 minute video.

Additional Help

For an excellent and thorough 1 hour long Harvard Tutorial on referencing here

For a tutorial on paraphrasing and additional information on the difference between quoting, paraphrasing and summarising click here

For a more detailed summary of the main referencing systems go here

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