How to Write Better Essays

involved in citing your sources and compiling a bibliography and a

reference list, both of which should enhance your essay for you and

your reader.

Notes

1 One of the most useful and comprehensive accounts of referencing and

plagiarism is Gordon Harvey, Writing with Sources: A Guide for Harvard

Students(Cambridge, Mass., 1995). I am indebted to this for the more per-

ceptive distinctions that follow.

You can find it at: http//www.fas.harvard.edu/~expos/sources

2 Greats Handbook(Oxford: University of Oxford, 2000), p. 42.

3 Jan Regan, Essay and Report Writing: What is Expected of You(Lismore:

Southern Cross University, 2000), p. 9.

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