Skills for study

Question 1

why are assets beneficial to an organisation?

Answer 1

they give value and add a competitive advantage

Question 2

what is intellectual property?

Question 3

can you name 5 types of intellectual property?

Answer 3

patents
copyright
confidential info
trade marks
design rights

Question 4

which intellectual property is most important for academic work?

Answer 4

copyright

Question 5

why is copyright important for academic work?

Answer 5

Copyright is important as it helps to protect the value of an author/academic/researchers work, by giving the originator of the work the ability to protect it from unlicensed or uncredited usage.

Question 6

what is plagiarism?

Answer 6

using the work of others without acknowledging your source of information or aspiration

Question 7

name 3 examples of plaigarism

Answer 7

using words more or less exactly as they are used in articles, lectures, books, TV etc

using others theories without naming them

paraphrasing what you read or hear without stating where it came from

Question 8

name 2 other forms of cheating

Answer 8

copying and colluding

Question 9

what is copying?

Answer 9

using someone else’s work and pretending its our own

Question 10

what is colluding?

Answer 10

working together for mutual benefit but with the intention to deceive a third party

Question 11

what are ethics?

Answer 11

acting with integrity ad fairness eg upholding scholarly principles and not cheating. Doing whats morally right

Question 12

what happens if you want to reference something and theres more than 2 authors?

Answer 12

you use et al. which is written in italics with a . at the end

Question 13

what do you need to do when referencing a direct quote?

Answer 13

add a page number

Question 14

does the full stop come before or after the brackets?

Answer 14

it comes after

Question 15

what are the four parts of a reference?