Critical thinking and problem solvingReferencing

Participating in a research project involves successfully collecting information. Questionnaires and interviews are popular ways of gathering quantitative and qualitative information.

Part ofNational: Foundation KS4Individual project

Referencing

is when someone directly copies the work of other people and tries to pass the work off as their own. It essentially means stealing someone else’s work.

It is essential to make reference to other people’s words or ideas in any piece of written work.

Exam boards and universities regularly use software to identify plagiarism within students' work.

Computer with 'Warning! Copying work may result in disciplinary action' on screen and hand copying the text onto a notepad.