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The Harvard referencing method doesn't use commas.<br>
I do not know what your query 'did you do that page?' refers to but I
haven't written for any commercial publishers for some years. <br>
Any publication that lists suitable references is bound to omit some
either deliberately or inadvertently that is why lists such as this are
so valuable. They let teachers know all the good resources out there.
Of course some of the most useful resources come from teachers
themselves, like those Antonia shared recently.<br>
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Keep up the good work everyone.<br>
<br>
Charmaine Taylor<br>
Sunbury Downs College<br>
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David Dawson wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Yes Charmaine
I hear you - however ....
It would be fair for the VCAA to omit the latest VITTA CD given time constraints, but there are several others. The latest one was not a programming CD.
The publisher I mentioned is CPU - and perhaps I will ask them if they require an errata to be published by the VCAA on the VCAA website.
The Harvard System still requires authors in the correct order and commas where appropriate - and "et al" means more than two - "and others" I think ;-)
The books omitted are, oddly, books which contain VCAA exams which have been paid for by CPU - do you know the two I am referring to? The VCAA should know as they got the cash AFAIK!
BTW did you do that page?
David Dawson
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au">itapps-bounces@edulists.com.au</a> on behalf of Charmaine Taylor
Sent: Thu 8/02/2007 11:34 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Can anyone clarify
Hi David,
You are using the APA referencing method while VCAA uses the Harvard
referencing method. Both are accepted in academic circles (although some
schools designate their preferred method). I prefer the Harvard method
but it doesn't really matter so long as the author is consistent in
their application of their chosen method. There is a good guide to the
Harvard method at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.usq.edu.au/library">www.usq.edu.au/library</a> website.
The errors you identified are a pity but I think most of us realise
everyone is under pressure to get more done in less time these days (I
know I'm expected to perform three people's jobs at my place) but it
does gives us an opportunity to validate our data and verify sources -
all good ITA stuff.
Re the omission of reference by VCAA to the VITTA CD, wasn't the VCAA CD
produced a while before the VITTA CD?
Cheers,
Charmaine Taylor
Sunbury Downs College
David Dawson wrote:
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<pre wrap="">As part of this ongoing discussion I would like to point out that the
VCAA support CD for Implementing VCE IT has numerous factual and other
errors including:
- one website with incorrect title
- authors incorrectly represented on resources with initials and name
omissions (several instances)
- incorrect publisher on at least one book
- several books by major local publishers omitted
- poor punctuation throughout the resources, with at least 8 "formatting
and convention" errors
- year consistently recorded after the author instead of at the end of
the reference
My understanding is that resources should be listed as such:
Fee, Elizabeth, and Daniel M. Fox, eds. AIDS: The Burdens of History.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
This does not occur anywhere under resources. If students were to make
such errors on VCE essays they would be penalised. Please bring this to
your student's attention.
The CD also does not list any of the VITTA programming CDs as resources,
so I assume that they feel these are not worthwhile - but I guess this
is a decision that was made, not an oversight.
People in glass houses ...... should proof-read and check resources on a
resources CD.
David Dawson
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