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APPENDICES
author’. This will usually be the name of the organisation or company to whom the website or web page
belongs.
2. Date of publication/broadcast/recording: This means the date the item was produced. It is usually
a year, but if you are using a newspaper article, an email, or a television recording, you will have to
include a full date (day/month/year) in your reference.
3. Title of the item: This means the primary (main) title of the item you are using. That sounds very
obvious, but have a look at a web page and try to work out what the main title is. We would advise
common sense in this situation – you have to identify the key piece of information that describes what
you have used, and will allow the reader of your work to identify that information.
It is worth keeping track of this information as you go and with any notes you make on a reference ... this
makes referencing work produced from your notes much easier. You may find this advice even more important
when writing about education as you will generally be less used to the literature than you are in your ‘primary
discipline’ and forming a written narrative often relies less on data and fact and more on ideas and argument.
This requires you to ‘unpack’ and use references in a different way and ideas can all too easily get divorced
from the source material when you assemble the final work.
The table on page 96 tells you about some of the variations you should look for when you are collecting your
reference information.
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author’. This will usually be the name of the organisation or company to whom the website or web page
belongs.
2. Date of publication/broadcast/recording: This means the date the item was produced. It is usually
a year, but if you are using a newspaper article, an email, or a television recording, you will have to
include a full date (day/month/year) in your reference.
3. Title of the item: This means the primary (main) title of the item you are using. That sounds very
obvious, but have a look at a web page and try to work out what the main title is. We would advise
common sense in this situation – you have to identify the key piece of information that describes what
you have used, and will allow the reader of your work to identify that information.
It is worth keeping track of this information as you go and with any notes you make on a reference ... this
makes referencing work produced from your notes much easier. You may find this advice even more important
when writing about education as you will generally be less used to the literature than you are in your ‘primary
discipline’ and forming a written narrative often relies less on data and fact and more on ideas and argument.
This requires you to ‘unpack’ and use references in a different way and ideas can all too easily get divorced
from the source material when you assemble the final work.
The table on page 96 tells you about some of the variations you should look for when you are collecting your
reference information.
EDU © Imperial College London 2014-15 95
