Reflection & Referencing

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Reflection

• Task 3 – Personal
Statement and
Reflection

• Reflection on events
throughout the year
What can I reflect on?

• Student union
• Work activities
experience/placements • Roles within
• Voluntary or pro bono community
work organisations
• Roles on university • Networking events
clubs or societies • Visits to courts or
• Acting as a student other organisations
representative or • Employment
ambassador
• Lectures
 Why is reflecting important?

• Identify strengths
• Identify area for
improvement
• Develop new skills
• Strengthen abilities
• Employability
How to write a reflection
• Do not write an account of your experiences!
For each event/ experience
• What were you doing?
• What were you trying to achieve by doing it?
• Did you achieve it?
• What do you think went well?
• What needs to be improved upon?
• What skills have you learnt from this?
• Where will you be able to apply these
skills?
• What will you do next time to improve
on these skills?
Referencing

In any written piece of work you MUST

reference any information you have obtained.

If you don’t, you may be

guilty of

PLAGIARISM
Staffordshire University
policy on plagiarism
• Plagiarism is defined as passing off someone else's
work as your own. This can be research,
statements, images and statistical data.
• Plagiarism occurs when you don’t acknowledge
where the information that you have used in your
assignment came from. For example, copying
directly from a text word-for-word, using text
downloaded from the Internet, paraphrasing the
words of a text very closely, downloading or
copying pictures, photographs, or diagrams without
acknowledging your sources.
(Staffordshire University)
Plagiarism
Marks reduced. The maximum permitted penalty
Minor is award of zero marks for the assessment
Academic component and the minimum permitted penalty
is the award of a mark of 40%.
Misconduct Written warning
Zero marks for the component of assessment,
Major with a recommendation to permit an opportunity
Academic to be reassessed.
Written warning
Misconduct
Failure of the module with a right to
Gross reassessment at the next available opportunity.
Academic OR Failure of the module with no right to
reassessment.
Misconduct A student who is found to have committed gross
academic misconduct on two occasions will be
withdrawn from the programme permanently
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FOOTNOTES

1
‘The case of Donoghue v Stevenson
helps to illustrate the principle of
“reasonable foreseeability” in relation to a
breach of a duty of care in tort law’
1 [1932] UKHL 100
or
1 Donoghue v Stevenson
[1932] UKHL 100
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Referencing Legislation

‘Employers are unable to discriminate against

1
workers based on their gender . Any employer
who may wish to do so, could find themselves
at the losing end of discrimination claim.’
1. Equality Act 2010 s7
Referencing Cases
1
‘The case of Donoghue v Stevenson helps to
illustrate the principle of “reasonable
foreseeability” in relation to a breach of a duty
of care in tort law’
1. [1932] UKHL 100
or
1. Donoghue v Stevenson [1932]
UKHL 100
Referencing Books

“The dismissal of an employee for reasons

based on that individual’s pregnancy or
childbirth, could result in the dismissal
being categorised as an automatically
1
unfair one .”
1. Simon Honeyball, Employment Law (12 edn, Oxford
University Press 2012) 160
Referencing Books

• 1. Simon Honeyball, Employment Law (12 edn,

Oxford University Press 2012) 160

• Author, Title of book (Edition of book, Publisher

Year published) Page number
Referencing Journal Articles

‘Norris suggests that there is a difference

between a moral duty of care and a legal one,
and that this difference can swing either way on
1
the change of small details .’
1. William Norris, 'A duty of care in sport: what it
actually means' [2017] 3 JPIL 154, 155
Referencing Journal Articles

William Norris , 'A duty of care in sport: what it

actually means' [2017] 3 JPIL 154, 155

Author, ‘Title of Journal Article’ [Year] Volume

Journal First Page of Article, Page number used
Referencing Websites
‘It is clear the Environmental Agency is
attempting to crack down on persistent
polluters. The use of suspended
sentences over fines could assist in the
1
battle to make the UK’s air cleaner .’
1. Environment Agency, 'Dorset farmer given
suspended prison sentence for burning rubbish'
(GOV.UK, 24 August 2017)
<https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dorset-farmer-
given-suspended-prison-sentence-for-burning-
rubbish> Accessed 31 August 2017
Referencing Websites

1. Environment Agency, 'Dorset farmer given

suspended prison sentence for burning rubbish'
(GOV.UK, 24 August 2017)
<https://www.gov.uk/government/news/dorset-
farmer-given-suspended-prison-sentence-for-
burning-rubbish> Accessed 31 August 2017

Author, ‘Title of website page’ (Name of website,

Date Published) <Website address> Date it was
accessed
IBID and SEE NOTE

1. Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] UKHL 100

2. William Norris, 'A duty of care in sport: what it
actually means' [2017] 3 JPIL 154, 155
3. Simon Honeyball, Employment Law (12 edn,
Oxford University Press 2012) 160
4. Equality Act 2010 s7
5. Equality Act 2010 s7
6. William Norris, 'A duty of care in sport: what it
actually means' [2017] 3 JPIL 154, 155
IBID and SEE NOTE

1. Donoghue v Stevenson [1932] UKHL 100

2. William Norris, 'A duty of care in sport: what it
actually means' [2017] 3 JPIL 154, 155
3. Simon Honeyball, Employment Law (12 edn,
Oxford University Press 2012) 160
4. Equality Act 2010 s7
5. IBID (Where the citation is the same as the one above it)

6. See note 2. (Where the citation is the same as another)

Bibliography
UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE, YOU MUST
PROVIDE A BIBLIOGRAPHY WITH ALL
YOUR WORK
Same format as footnotes, but placed in
categories of source and alphabetical order
1. Legislation (Do not need the section)
2. Cases
3. Books (Do not need the page numbers)
4. Journals
5. Websites