Harvard Referencing
 

Does anyone else have to this for essays etc? I need someone to share my great pain!

I do APA, so cannot confuse myself with Harvard! It's so frustrating because you get docked marks for getting a comma or a full-stop in the wrong place. Until university, I don't think I realised that misplacing italic text would signify the end of the world...

Bane of my life,hate it.

I have to...but I find that neilstoolbox is the best thing ever created!

I know, frustrating isn't it!
I also have to do APA.

Its the only referencing my course will allow. Completely different to any I've done before I share your pain, its horrendous. But my uni has done a good reference help link, I'll post the link in a sec

my uni did a whole 15 page booklet on it and it still doesnt make sense!

I used neil's tool box and they still said it was wrong. I hated it lol

I have no idea what version of referencing my uni uses for my course, but I find it easy

/pointless

The book Cite them Right has been invaluable in regards to referencing. I have to do Harvard and it does my bloody head in. But I'd hate to do that one with all the numbers and footnotes, that looks confusing! For my last assignment, the uni's rule on word count and references changed to include references at the last minute and my course were unable to change our word count - that was a little piece of hell on earth - I hate uni. Fact.

I used to have to do it at uni, but I loved it because it looks so neat and orderly at the end of the work. I actually took huge pride in making sure it was perfect and done exactly how it's supposed to.

What's that?

That could be useful, thank you!


I am currently trying to translate this 102 page book on referencing :plain:

Last year I used the Harvard University website to do the referencing correctly & my tutor told me it was wrong. How can it be wrong?! :confused:

Good God, I detest it. Recently, it seems like it took me longer to get right than my actually essay.
-_-'

Yes, as the OU are into it. Their guide to Harvard referencing is quite good, I could email you a copy.

Yes!! Exactly my problem. I'm almost past caring about getting it right.


I'll stick with the book so that if my tutor says anything I can argue that the book is wrong! Thank you though x

I'll see what happens when I submit to 'Turn-it-in' ... just another invention to make my life more complicated!

Ugh, I hated Turnitin. Even though I'm not a one to plagiarise, it still made me paranoid in case I accidentally wrote the same sentence as someone else without realising it (there are so many essays being submitted each year about the same topic that this is just bound to happen at some point).

I used to have to do it when I was at uni & every time I handed in an assignment, I'd be told that the referencing was wrong. So I'd find out the correct way that it should be done from that specific lecturer & then use that way the next time, only to be told that it was wrong again. I don't think I ever got it completely right, even when I read up on how to do it or copied the format of other people on my course who didn't get told it was wrong. Yes, referencing is a pain in the backside. :angry:

Bane of my life. Whoever invented the Harvard referencing system should be shot.