Referencing with RefWorks

Now I'm a member of staff here at NTU but I'm also a student doing post-graduate work.

I'd been meaning to try and get to grips with RefWorks for some time and a few days ago I finally did. I had to adapt my way of working but once I did it proved to be very effective. There's a really useful add-on too which allows you to import book from Amazon into your RefWorks database, which did't quite work as I think it should be was nonetheless pretty useful. The real benefit came when I finally wanted to create my set of References and it simply churned them out in a style and file type of my choosing.

White Rabbits!

Today is the first of the month and some people have the tradition that if the first thing you say on the first day of any month is "White Rabbits" then you will receive a gift. Something like that!

I think I manage it about one a year as like most people I usually manage "Oh God what time is it?" or something similar. I kind of managed it today so as a present to myself and to anyone reading this blog and I know there are some people (if only the PGCHE tutors who read the hard copy, which forms a neat addition to my PGCHE portfolio).

I will make a determined effort this month to make some regular postings, if only as a way of reminding myself of some useful events and developments that I might otherwise forget to mention or otherwise chase up. Since this blog is a type of reflective journal I find it useful to both reflect upon things and simply to remind myself to chase others up...

Expect postings on subjects as diverse as Gilly Salmon and podcasting, undergraduate plagiarism, and prize winning photographs.

Plagiarism Paranoia

I came up with one of those nice sounding sentences (the sort that don't bear great critical scrutiny) for the start of one of my assignments. Here it is:

If we are thinking about learning are we learning about thinking?

But then I wondered if it sound a little too familiar so I Googled it (how naughty using Google as an adjective) as a phrase with, and without, the question mark. Both times the phrase could not be found. I'm still a little paranoid but is the "not on Google" defence a reliable one for accidental plagiarists?