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Engineering Honours Project

This guide is designed to assist UniSC's final year Engineering students find resources to inform their Honours Project.

UniSC Referencing Style Guides

*For PDF documents you must have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded from the Adobe download page

Other Recommended Referencing Sources

Why is referencing important?

Research involves using other people's ideas and work to develop your own conclusions.  You must acknowledge all of the sources you have used.

When you have an accurate reference:

  • you can find an information source again quickly and easily
  • your lecturers and tutors can find the source of the information you used in your assignments
  • other people reading your work can find the source of the information
  • you can share information without the need to give a copy of the source
  • you acknowledge the effort made by the original author, who may have spent years creating that source of information, or finding the facts.

What is plagiarism?

If you try to pass off someone else's work as your own, that is plagiarism.

If your work contains plagiarised content, you may be penalised by:

  • having to resubmit your assignment
  • being marked down
  • failing your assignment
  • failing your course.

Plagiarism may be accidental or deliberate.

2018 UniSC Film Festival clips - Academic Integrity

First Place and First People's Choice Award  - Copy and Paste - Michael De Wet and Tim Gill

https://mediasite.usc.edu.au/Mediasite/Play/08e5eedaade944778ed5deb5ecc3ec0f1d

Second PlaceFortune Hunter - Jsjiah Moore 

https://mediasite.usc.edu.au/Mediasite/Play/c35121b82150419ba8cb938a72bf86d01d

Third Place and Second People's Choice Award - Plagiarism Infomercial - Rebecca Griggs and Stephanie Kliese 

https://mediasite.usc.edu.au/Mediasite/Play/fb3382cf7541484589139ed680f7f6b61d

How to avoid plagiarism?

Whenever you use information that has been written by another person, you need to reference or cite the source.  There are many referencing styles, but ultimately they all include the following elements:

  • The author
  • The year and date of publication
  • The title of the work
  • The title of the publication that work appears in
  • The name and place of publication

Academic writing and referencing

Using the information you have found may mean writing a speech or a report, creating a presentation, or responding to a question.

No matter how you use this information, you need to correctly cite (reference) it.

Login to Blackboard and find Academic Skills under Organisations.

  • Plagiarism
  • Study Skills
  • Academic Writing
  • Essay Questions
  • Thesis Statements
  • Referencing Styles and Guides
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