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No: RICS-SBE (N)/F001/001

Revised On: 21-11-2017

COURSE GUIDE

Course Title: Industrial Training

Semester: 2nd
Programme: MBA in Construction Economics and
Quantity Surveying
Course Coordinator: VPS Nihar Nanyam

Course Faculty: Faculty members from School of

Construction, RICS SBE

School of Construction
1. Know your faculty
Refer faculty detail on RICSSBE home page, link http://www.ricssbe.org/schoolsfaculty/

2. Course Objectives
Industry training /internship of eight weeks would provide students with an opportunity to
integrate theory and practice from courses to an organizational context. This opportunity to
observe, participate, and perform independently in a supportive environment would be
especially useful for students without previous experience in the relevant profession. This
approach integrates education with the workplace, providing students with a range of
experiences and skills related to the industry. It would also help the students to decide their
area of specialization or career path.

3. Student Learning Outcomes

The aim of this course is to enhance student understanding of the work place and further
develop personal and professional skills. After successful completion of this course, the
student will be able to
1. Explain the roles of Quantity surveyors and construction managers in the industry
2. Examine and critically analyse an aspect of a given assignment in a professional
setting
3. Interpret QS and construction project management theory and approaches in a
practice based context
4. Understand and appreciate new methodologies used in the industry
5. Use general and specialist IT skills in an industry context
6. Apply work place health and safety rules and regulations
7. Evaluate the personal strengths and weaknesses and the contribution that
practical training play in personal and continuing professional development.
Internship would be conducted as an NTCC subject. Thus, it would be implemented as per
NTCC guidelines.

4. Subject Structure
Course Title Industrial Training
Post Semester 2
Course Plan
15th May-10th July 2018
Program MBA In Construction Economics and Quantity Surveying
L T P/S SW/FW Total credit units
Credit Units
0 0 0 0 4
Industry Hours 8 Weeks /56 days with 10-12 hrs per day
Core/Elective Core
Pre-requisite None
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5. Registration (as per NTCC Guidelines, Sec. 7.5)
Students shall register on-line on AMIZONE as per NTCC guidelines of AUUP. Students who
have not registered, as per regulations shall be treated as failed in the course. Furthermore,
a student shall not be allowed to progress to next year especially if he/she has failed
the evaluation as per NTCC guidelines.

6. Finalisation of Industry Internship Organisation (as per NTCC

Guidelines, Sec.7.4)
Institution NTCC Committee will decide the place of work for Industry Internship.
The student can arrange outside organisation for Industry Internship on his /her own also.
In such cases the student has to take permission from HOI / Faculty Coordinator atleast three
months prior to the commencement of Internship so that ‘Bonafide Student Letter’
(maximum seven organisations chosen by the student) can be given to students by the
institution as per guidelines of the university.

7. Allocation of Faculty Guide and External Guide (as per NTCC

Guidelines, Sec. 7.6)
a) Each student shall be assigned a faculty guide for the Industry Internship in a formal
manner, depending on the number of students per faculty member, the available
specialization among the faculty guides, by Institution NTCC Committee.
b) Each student shall have two guides – a faculty guide from the institution and an
external guide from the concerned organisation. In such cases of joint guidance, the
principal guide shall be the faculty guide.
c) The external guide shall be provided with brief guidelines for performance
monitoring and assessment of the student.

8. Finalisation of Work Schedule (as per NTCC Guidelines, Sec.

7.8)
a. Student will finalise the broad scope and work schedule of his / her Internship in
consultation with the faculty guide. Broad area needs to be provided at the time of
Registration. However, within ten days after the registration / joining the
organisation, whichever is earlier, the student will work on the scope and work
Schedule of his/her internship under the guidance of external supervisor and faculty
guide.
b. The student will send the scope along with work schedule duly approved and signed
by external guide to his faculty guide (in specified format). Student will also update
the details on AMIZONE for approval of faculty guide. If faculty guide feels certain

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 lacuna in the scope and work schedule, he / she will discuss with the external guide
and finalise same in order to meet the Course Objectives (COs) and Learning Outcomes
(LOs) in accordance with Programme Learning Objectives (PLOs).
c. The work / project Schedule (Project Plan) is to be prepared using GANTT or PERT
chart (in specified format).
d. The scope and work schedule of Internship will be approved by the Institution NTCC
Committee (INC). Each student will make a presentation before the INC on specified
date, time and venue. The final list cleared by the INC and approved by HOI will be sent
to Academic Office in AUUP HQ and COE, before the date of first Weekly Progress
Report.

9. Procedure for conduct and progress monitoring of NTCC (as

per NTCC Guidelines, Sec. 7.9)
a. Students will perform in Industry Internship as per the finalized scope and work
schedule.
b. Students will regularly report to their faculty guide for their weekly progress as per
the prescribe format of Weekly Progress Report (WPR).
c. Faculty guide will mark the status of Weekly Progress Report (WPR) received and
quality of work done on AMIZONE. Faculty guide will also give feedback to students.
d. Students will also maintain daily diary of the work done which need to be submitted
to their respective faculty guides.
e. Students will maintain the record of interaction and feedback by their respective
Faculty Guides (in specified format).
f. Periodic progress Review by a faculty board will be done. For this, institution will
announce at the time of registration for the course. The institution would chalk out the
plan (Skype presentation etc) for periodic progress review of the students who are
working out of country.

10. Assessment Plan and Continuous Assessment (as per NTCC

Guidelines, Sec. 8)
a) The weightage of Continuous Internal Assessment and Final Assessment shall be as
under:
Sl. No. Continuous Internal Assessment Final Assessment
1. 30 70

b) The break up (components and their weightage) of Continuous Internal Assessment

shall be as under:

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 Sl. Marks
Activity
No. (CIA = 30%)
1 Timely Registration 5

2 Topic and Synopsis Approval 5

WPRs
3 (No. of WPRs Submitted) 5
(Satisfactory WPR)
Periodic Progress Review by a board
4 of faculty through presentation 5

5 Review of report (Draft+Final) 5

Plagiarism Report with
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<15% Plagiarism *
* As per Plagiarism Prevention Policy of the University.
Weightage of Continuous Internal Assessment will be equally divided between both the
supervisors (faculty guide and external guide) as per following:
i. The faculty guide will give the CIA marks as per the university guidelines.
ii. The marks provided by external guide will be converted into 30/40/50 as the case
may be on CA/IA norms, for specific course.
iii. The average of marks given by faculty guide and converted marks of external guide
shall be treated as final CA/IA marks for Internship.
iv. It is the responsibility of the student and faculty guide to ensure the external guide
sends the assessment on time. In case the marks of external guide are not received
the Institution NTCC Committee will review the case and put it up for
recommendations to HOI and COE.
c. The marking scheme for the project report as part of Continuous Internal Assessment is as
under:

S.No. Parameter Weightage (5)

1. Introduction and Statement of the Problem 1
2 Methodology/methods/Approach 1
Data Collection, Analysis, Results
1
3 findings/Outcomes and conclusions
4 Quality of work and written expression 1
5 Student Learning Outcomes 1

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The institution will send the CIA marks along with all the reports from AMIZONE and
supporting documents of all students to COE. Further, COE will declare the list of students
eligible for the final assessment after examining all the cases

11. Marking Scheme for Final External Assessment (70 Marks):

S. Parameter Weightage
No. (Marks)
(70%)
1 Introduction & statement of problem 5
• Does the introduction provide a general overview of the issues
surrounding the study?
• Does the report has the operational structure of organization?
• Are the table of contents & List of figures included?
2 Objectives 5
• Are objectives specified for the work?
3 Methodology, Scope of work, process/Approach 10
• Is the Scope & nature of work specified?
• Are the week wise assigned tasks specify the purpose,
methodology & process?
• Do the sampling, data collection, and analytical procedures
done for the project?
4 Site Study, Analysis, Observations and Conclusions 15
• Are the Learnings from the tasks specified?
• Recommendations, suggestions for the regarding the analysis
5 Quality of work and written expression 10
• Does the proposal demonstrate a high quality of written
expression?
• Is the potential cohesive and coherent?
• Is it accurate?
• Are applicable support documents (appendices) included and
satisfactory?
• Is appropriate style used correctly and consistently?
• Does the abstract summarize the contents of the project clearly?
6 Presentation and Communication 10
• Is Presentation in line with the report?
• Did relied on notes or presented as fluently in own words?
• Was the quality of presentation material upto mark?
• Were the communication and presentation skills upto mark?
• Were the queries handled properly?
7 Student Learning Outcomes 5
• Have the students learning outcomes met?
8 Viva Voce 10
• Are answers in line with the questions posed?
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12. Plagiarism (as per NTCC Guidelines, Sec. 9)
The NTTC report must be written in students own words. However, if required to cite the
words of others, all the debts (for words, data, arguments and ideas) have to be appropriately
acknowledged.
It is mandatory that each project report shall be checked for plagiarism through Turnitin or
similar software before submission. The content which is based on existing published work
must come from properly quoted material and from the references cited section. After
checking the accuracy of the citations and references of such content the plagiarism report
should not return similarity index of more than 15% in any circumstance. However, if the
matching text is one continuous block, the index of 15% could still be considered plagiarism.
Any report with higher than this percentage matching must be explained by the student. The
details of copy rights, professional ethics are given in Plagiarism Prevention Policy of the
University

13. Submission of Final Report (as per NTCC Guidelines, Sec. 10)
a) The student shall write the project report / dissertation and submit the final report as
per instructions given in Guidelines and checked for Plagiarism.
b) Following shall be submitted along with final report:
i. i)WPR
ii. ii) NTCC Dairy
iii. iii) Plagiarism Report
c) A student shall be eligible to submit his/her report and final assessment provided
he/she meets following conditions:
i. i)Did Online Registration on Amizone for the NTCC course.
ii. ii) Scope and work schedule of Internship approved by the faculty guide.
iii. iii) Atleast 90 % of WPRs were submitted
iv. iv) Atleast 80% of the WPRs were satisfactory
v. v) Similarity index not more than 15 % as per Plagiarism Prevention Policy.
Students who are not eligible to submit the report will re-submit the thesis as per the
following Sec. 11 of NTCC Guidelines.

14. Final Assessment (as per NTCC Guidelines, Sec. 13, 14, 15)
Final Assessment would be done only of those students who have qualified on the basis of
Conduct and progress monitoring guidelines and submission of thesis as per specified
guidelines.
The Final assessment will be treated as end semester examination. It is mandatory for the
students to appear for final assessment as per scheduled date and time. If fail to appear in
the students final assessment as per schedule, he/she will treated as absent. For such cases

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same rules will be applicable as those for theory examination. The assessment of I category
students will be done within one month of final assessment of the batch.
Final report shall be prepared as per specified guidelines. Submission details are as below:

4000-5000 words (exclusive of Preface Copyright Page, Faculty Guide Approval Page,
Acknowledgement, Table of Contents, List of Tables, List of Figures, Certificates etc. )

2 copies to be submitted

Spiral bound

Would be retained at institution level for 6 months. Best project reports would be
kept for a longer period.
Students would be able to improve their scores and grades as per NTCC Guidelines Sec. 17.

15. Guidelines for writing the Report (as per NTCC Guidelines
Sec 16)
Language English
Paper Size A4
Margins The text of the document must be justified.
The left and right margin of 1.25 inches. The top and bottom
margin
of 1.00 inch.
Typing On One side of page only. The text will follow line spacing of 1.5
lines.
Table and figures, tabular material as necessary and appendix
material as appropriate may be single space.
Centered material is to be centered between the left and right
margins.
The first line of all paragraphs of running text will be indented
0.5inches.
Pagination Each page must be numbered, except the Title Page.
The pre pages—including the Copyright Page, Faculty Guide
Approval Page, Acknowledgement, Table of Contents, List of
Tables,
List of Figures and Abstract (if any) —will be numbered with
lowercase
Roman numerals (ii, iii, iv, etc.) centered from the bottom edge of
the page. The first page that will show a page number is page ii.
All remaining pages carry consecutive numerals (1, 2, 3, etc.). The
page number will be placed in the upper right-hand corner of the
page,
9 right aligned.
Arrangement of Every NTCC Project Report should have three parts: the pre
Contents pages,
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 the main text, and the reference material.
Each part has several sections, which are normally arranged in
the
order as discussed below.
1. Preliminary Pages
a. Title page
b. Declaration
c. Faculty Guide Approval page
d. Acknowledgement(s)
e. Table of Contents
f. List of Tables
g. List of Figures
h. Abstract
2. Text (usually divided into chapters and sections)
3. Reference Material
a. References
b. Appendix
Tables and Figures Each table of figure should be placed immediately after the
paragraph in which it is mentioned. If it has a separate page, this
page should be the one following the page on which the
table/figure was first mentioned.
Tables and figures that must be positioned horizontally
(landscaped) will face the outer edge of the page, with the widest
margin at the binding edge.
Tables and figures are numbered in separate series. Each table
and figure, including any in the appendices, has a number in its
own series. Each series is numbered consecutively within
chapters (e.g.,
Figure 10.1, Figure 10.2, and Figure 10.3).
Each table and figure will be separately numbered.
All titles/captions of Table & Figures will appear in the pre pages
in the List of Tables and List of Figures.
References The format for the references shall be Harvard referencing.
Please refer to the Appendix for details.
Appendices Appendices contain supplementary or illustrative material or
explanatory data too lengthy to be included in the text or not
immediately essential to the readers’ understanding of the text.
Appendices should be lettered in the order in which they are
referred to in the text. Each appendix will be listed with its title in
the Table of Contents (e.g., APPENDIX A. TITLE OF THE
APPENDIX).

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16. Roles and Responsibilities of students
a) Commit to a schedule of meetings, in order to ensure that the agreed schedule is
adhered to and deadlines met.
b) Use supervisory time allocated effectively,
c) Manage briefing sessions effectively by preparing for same in advance,
d) Keep appointments which have been arranged,
e) To send regularly Weekly Progress Report (WPR) to Faculty guide
f) Maintain a record of supervisory meetings,
g) Act responsibly and professionally during Industry Internship
h) Make use of AUUP guidance and documentation to plan and monitor progress at
Industry Internship
i) Recognise ethical responsibilities and understand the regulations with regard to
plagiarism,

17. Roles and Responsibilities of Faculty Guide/Supervisor

To advise on:
a) Scope and work schedule of Internship
b) To assist the student in identifying problems/issues and suggest/agree on specific
action to address those
c) Risk assessment, where appropriate methodologies
d) Referencing / plagiarism ethical practice, as appropriate
e) Information sources, including AUUP material, to support planning, monitoring
progress of the Internship
f) To offer feedback on partial versions of progress reports to maintain regular
supervisory contact.
g) To contact any student who fails to attend supervisory sessions

18. Briefing Sessions for students

Briefing Sessions are very important. Therefore, it is mandatory for the students to attend
the same whenever institution/faculty guide have scheduled the same:
During such sessions students should expect to:
a) Discuss ideas and concerns.
b) Be guided on resources and the development of a topic / area, be provided with
direction to help them to manage the process,
c) To be provided with advice on academic style, format and the scope of NTCC.
d) Be provided with general feedback,
e) Be provided with feedback on their NTCC and apply the comments they receive
through processes of reflection and action-planning to other parts of their
development work.
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Dates for internal and external assessments will be advised during the semester and
communicated via AMIZONE. Failure to adhere to specified dates will result in zero mark for
the particular assessment

19. NTCC Policies

Please refer to Amity University NTCC policy document for further detailed guidance and
procedures

20. Indicative marking threshold for internal assessment:

Presentation
Indicative Mark Commentary on Marking Standards
90% and above Outstanding
(OUTSTANDING) • Truly outstanding work to be recognized in all aspects- novel
concepts, possibility of deriving any hypothesis, evidence of
excellent communication skills, clearly communicated
presentation, established research methods, realization of time
line.
• Exceptionally proposed superior work in both content and
presentation
80 - 89% Excellent
(EXCELLENT) • Exceptionally clear, well-structured presentation
• Language proficiency
• Good demonstration of establishing objectives
• Scope work is clearly defined
• Meticulously structured literature review
• Timely completion of tasks and results leading to further work
70-79% High
(VERY GOOD) • Displaying a thorough understanding of the topic.
• Focusing clearly on the question
• Demonstrate extensive reading to support analysis
• Soundness of judgment
• Coherently reasoned statement with empirical evidence.
• All steps in a structured manner with relevant units of quantities.
• Answers to show accurate results ( may miss simple steps)
• Good interpretations of Solution (may be incomplete)
60-69% Generally Good
(GOOD) • Solid piece of work which answers the question,
• A clear conclusion in a generally focused and reasonably well
written manner,
• Use of citations, quotations and references.
• Evidence of wider reading and but not very deep analysis
• Contain necessary /important steps with relevant units.
• Accurate results, (may miss some steps which are not very critical

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 to problem solving)
• Reasonable level of interpretation of results.
• Proper referencing
50-59% Average
(SATISFACTORY) • Substantial room for improvement, (e.g. in terms of the standard of
written English, the sharpness of focus on the question)
• Insufficient analysis of the results
• References included, but not adequate
• No substantial interpretation
<50% Poor
(POOR) • Failure to focus on question set, identify the issues accurately,
understand and use core concepts, understand or interpret the
main arguments in the literature, provide proper references
• Missing important steps for analysis and discussion
• Commit major mistakes in choosing the data/lacks important and
• critical steps towards obtaining final result

21. Indicative marking threshold for internal assessment:

Report
Qualitative
Performance description
Value
Clearly demonstrates a highly creative, critical and thought- provoking
understanding of the topic.
Novel and complex problems are solved with reference to theory and
practice.
80% and Above Provides clear evidence of originality and independence of thought and
(Outstanding) with an exceptional ability to develop highly systematic and logical or
insightful argument, solution or evaluation.
Demonstrates exceptional ability in the appropriate use of the relevant
literature, theory, methodologies, practices, tools, techniques etc., to
analyze and synthesize the given problem.

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 Clearly demonstrates a persuasive, critical and thorough understanding
of the topic.
Some evidence of novel and complex problems solved with reference to
theory and practice.
Provides evidence of independence of thought and clearly demonstrates
75 – 79% the ability to develop a highly systematic and logical or Insightful
argument, solution or evaluation of the problem.
(Excellent)
Demonstrates excellence in the appropriate use of the relevant literature,
theory, methodologies, practices, tools, techniques etc., to analyze and
synthesize the given problem.
Shows a high level of clarity, focus and strength in communication.
The writing perfectly accomplishes the objectives of the assignment.
Clearly demonstrates a well-developed, critical and comprehensive
understanding of the topic.
Provides some evidence of independence of thought and clearly
68 – 74% demonstrates the ability to develop a systematic and logical or insightful
argument, solution or evaluation of the given problem.
(Good)
Demonstrates a high degree of competence in the appropriate use of the
relevant literature, theory, methodologies, practices, tools, techniques,
etc., to analyze and synthesize the given problem.
Shows clarity, focus and strength in communication
Demonstrates a systematic and substantial understanding of the topic.
Demonstrates the ability to develop a systematic argument or solution to
60 – 67% the given problem.

(Above Average) Demonstrates a significant degree of competence in the appropriate use

of the relevant literature, theory, methodologies, practices, tools,
techniques etc., to analyze and synthesize the given problem.
Provides evidence of clarity and focus in communication.

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 Provides evidence of a systematic understanding of the key aspects of the
topic.
Demonstrates the ability to present a sufficiently structured argument or
52 – 59% solution to the given problem.

(Average) Demonstrates an acceptable degree of competence in the appropriate use

of the relevant literature, theory, methodologies, practices, tools,
techniques etc., to analyze and synthesize the given problem
Provides evidence of effective communication.
Minimally accomplishes the majority of the goals of the assignment.
Provides evidence of some understanding of key aspects of the topic and
some ability to present an appropriate argument or solution to the given
problem.
45 -51% Demonstrates some competence in the appropriate use of the relevant
literature, theory, methodologies, practices, tools, techniques, etc. to
(Satisfactory)
analyze and synthesize the given problem.
Provides some evidence of effective communication.
Minimally accomplishes the majority of the goals of the assignment
Demonstrates limited competence in the appropriate use of the relevant
40 – 44% literature, theory, methodologies, practices, tools, techniques, etc. to
(Border Line) analyze and synthesize the given problem.
Provides limited evidence of effective communication.
Less than 40%
Work that is unacceptable. Erroneous/wrong, missing, extremely
(Fail)

22. Plagiarism
“Plagiarism is defined as presenting another person’s work as one’s own work. Presentation
includes copying or reproducing it without the acknowledgement of the source.”
Plagiarism involves copying of phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs or longer extracts
from published or unpublished work (including from the Internet) that exceeds the
boundaries of the legitimate cooperation without acknowledgement of the source.
Plagiarism could be intentional (dishonest plagiarism) or non-intentional (negligent
plagiarism).
This definition also applies for figures and figure legends and for tables and table legends
which you copy into your text.”
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It is mandatory that each course work shall be checked for plagiarism through Turnitin or
similar software before submission. The content which is based on existing published work
must come from properly quoted material and from the references cited section. After
checking the accuracy of the citations and references of such content the plagiarism report
should not return similarity index of more than 15% in any circumstance. However, if the
matching text is one continuous block, the index of 15% could shall be considered plagiarism.
Any report with higher than this percentage matching must be explained by the student. The
details of copy rights, professional ethics are given in Plagiarism Prevention Policy of the
University.

Referencing Guidelines
Referencing helps to acknowledge other peoples’ ideas and helps the reader/instructor to
locate the cited references easily and also to evaluate the interpretation of our ideas. It
reduces risk of plagiarism (i.e. taking other peoples’ thoughts, ideas or writings and using
them as though they are your own). Direct quotations, paraphrases, facts and figures, ideas
and theories both from published and unpublished sources must be referenced. The sources for
written (text) and graphic material may include books, journal or magazine articles,
newspapers, company, government or institutional reports, websites or personal
communication. Please note improper or no referencing will be penalized in terms of marks
awarded.

Referencing style at RICS School of Built Environment – In-text referencing

The Harvard style is an example of an in-text referencing style. In this system within the text,
the author’s name is given first followed by the publication date and usually the page
number/s for the source (Citation). The list of references or bibliography at the end of the
document contains the full details listed in alphabetical order for all the in-text citations.
Citation
Although Handy (1994) has argued that education is the key to economic success for individuals,
organizations and nations, a majority of adults in the UK have yet to be convinced or persuaded of this
argument. Of these, a significant majority was from social class groups A, B and C. Only a quarter of adults
from semi-skilled or unskilled work backgrounds had involved themselves in formal education (Tuckett 1999).

List References in Full at the End of an Assignment

Start with the last name(s), followed by initials of the author(s), contributor, editor,
producer or speaker. If you don’t have the name of an author, start with the name of the
originator. This can be an organization name, e.g. BBC, or name of a website, e.g. Bized.

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This is followed by the year of publication; put this in brackets. In this event date is missing,
put (no date), or (n/d). With Internet sources, look for a year the item was placed on the site,
or in the absence of this, when the site was last updated (the year in question), or if
unsuccessful with either of these two, the year you looked at the information.
This is followed by the title of the source. The main source is usually emphasized in some
way, e.g. underlined or italics. The main source would be, for example, the title of a book,
name of the magazine, journal or newspaper, broadcast production source, video or CD-Rom
etc. Whichever mode of emphasis you choose- underlining or italics - keep it consistent
throughout. The pattern in this booklet is to emphasize main sources by the use of italics.
In most printed items you would give details of the publisher. You first give the name of the
town or city where the source was published, followed by the name of the publisher.
In the case of a journal article, you finish with the reference details of volume, edition/issue
number (if shown) of the journal and the page numbers of where the article can be found.
Example: Hagen, J. (2002). Basic Skills for Adults. Birmingham: The Guidance Council.
Tuckett, A. (1999) ‘Who’s Learning What?’ The Guardian 18/5/1999, p. 13.
Citation: (Introna et al 2003)
Reference: Introna, L., Hayes, N., Blair, L., and Wood, E. (2003). Cultural Attitudes Towards
Plagiarism. http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/apppage.cgi?USERPAGE=7508 [Accessed 13/12/2005].

23. Academic Policies

Students are advised to go through the academic regulations and examination policy of
Amity University

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