Referencing

Here's an overview of referencing on your weblogs or wikis - to meet academic standards (and good blogging / wiki-ing practice!)

No - not me - external, anonymous readers. If they're reading your blog - and are interested in what you have to say, they may like to read the original sources themselves - so here's what you do:
 * Step 1** - think of your reader!

a) if it's a website or another blog post You highlight the name (or reference resource) and hyperlink directly to that resource. If it's a blog post - you hyperlink to the exact post - not just the blog in general! Each blog post has it's own unique URL - or permalink - you can determine this in edublogs by rolling your mouse over the title of the post - the URL will appear at the bottom of the screen. Right click and copy that link! Imagine if you linked to a blog, and someone read your post 3 months later... how would I ever find what you were talking about... so think of your reader.
 * 1) In text quoting**

b)If it's a paper-based reference - then UTS Harvard in-text referencing format applies.

Here's a little example: According to [|Wikipedia], an online community is.... However, Wenger (1998) provides an alternative view...

Or for a blog post... [|Bartlett-Bragg] (2008) review an new online referencing tool!

Use the UTS Library resource for [|UTS Harvard] formatting!
 * 2) List of References (not a bibliography!)**

So - all journal articles or paper-based references follow the format listed on this page. For sites like Wikipedia - it actually gets quite tricky! Essentially you follow point 8. electronic resource.... however, there is no direct author and the date can be tricky too! So... it would look like this: na 2008, //Online Learning Community,//Wikipedia, viewed 27 March 2008, http: //direct URL to the specific page So the date is the last date the page was updated - see the bottom of the Wikipedia page.

Blog posts look like this: Bartlett-Bragg, A. 28 February, 2008,// Zoterio: A review,//Learning Technologies, viewed 27 March 2008, http:// direct URL to the specific post. The date here - after the author's name, is the actual date of the post.

Hope this helps! ABB ;-)