Year 10 - 13

Expectations

By the end of year 11

• All students will understand why the work of others should be acknowledged whether the work is directly reproduced or has been paraphrased.

• All students will understand that the direct quotations should be in quotation marks and that the copy and paste of more than one or two sentences in a section of work is usually not acceptable 

• All students will be expected to acknowledge the work of others through a bibliography arranged alphabetically (or numerically depending on citation style) at the end of work.

• All students will be acknowledging the work of others at the location at which it occurs in the work through one of the following in text citation methods

Author and date 

• Narrative Jones (1997) found a correlation between the complexity of a policy and how well it was followed 

• Parenthetical There is correlation between complexity of a policy and how well it is followed (Jones 1997) 

Numbered footnote

• The policy complexity theory was put forward in 19974

• A study5 suggest that there is a link between policy complexity and adoption.

• All students will have been introduced to the plagiarism checking service turnitin and will understand the limitations of a direct text match system such as this 

• All students will be using the MLA style in the ‘works cited’ section of the bibliography / numerical footnote

• All students will have been introduced to a tool which assists in the referencing process such as the google docs citation tool.