Varsity College uses the Harvard Referencing Method to acknowledge the sources of information. You need to learn how to reference correctly. This exercise will help you learn to do this.
Whenever you look at another source of information and use it for your own writing, you need to reference it. If you quote directly from the source, you need to use inverted comma's "QUOTES" to show that it is word for word as the other person said it.
If you use someone's ideas/words, but you put them into your OWN words, you still reference the source, but don't use the quote marks.
Finally, if you give your opinion, or say something which was from your own thoughts (without looking at another source), there are no quotes because YOU are 'speaking'.
Therefore, when you look at a text that has been written by someone, you should be able to see, when they are speaking, when they are using someone else's ideas, but saying it in their own words and when they are quoting someone else directly.
Answer the following three questions, each one is an example of the different types of text you should use in an assignment.
- Find a definition on “digital footprint” on the web. Copy and paste the exact definition AND the proper reference to it on a post in your blog. Properly reference it as an ‘exact quote’.
- Underneath the exact quote, write a paraphrased version (writing it into your own words) of the definition and reference it correctly.
- Write your view on how your digital footprint might affect you positively or negatively in the future. Write a few sentences.
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