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dear @trephena, and others This is important issue and I could not find guidelines on it so please enlighten us. For example in topic 6, questionnaire (ms doc) is included as appendix A, graphs in excels sheet as appendix B (same graphs used in report as well).
So how the results derived would be referenced in report:
1. as (Appendix A) etc or
2. As this guidelines given in info pack.
(page 34 point 8)“Questionnaire results should be referenced as ‘author
research survey, date’, or similar wording. Sources of interview data could be given their job title and interview date, name if not confidential, or some other form of anonymous but informative title (See RAP Information Pack, Appendix 3, Section 3.4 Personal Communication)I could not find any thing such as 3.4 Personal Communication in appendix 3. Am I right in interpreting the wordings, suppose I have done survey than it should be referenced as (for example)
(Broke Motivation Survey, 2014)Will highly appreciate inputs, lets resolve this issue once and for all.
Thanks@bassaniobroke forgive me if we need a few postings etc to sort this out. I suspect what you are citing from Appendix 3 is probably the OBU guidance for all students (including those doing a PhD !) It certainly is best practice and normal to reference your own primary research work (and the reference you have made above to your own Motivation Questionnaire would be correct).
However for the ACCA / OBU RAP as long as you have a good outline of the methodology and details of the sampling you have used in Part 2 + a copy of the questionnaire used, the raw data AND a summary of the results (the questionnaire etc should be in the Appenices as you state above, with these appendices referenced in the text) this is usually sufficient for work at this level. I suppose the rationale is that as the full rules on Referencing are quite complex (as we are discovering! 😀 ) that students for the RAP cannot be expected to take every single one of them on board for what is for most people, their first piece of University work and as long as they appreciate the importance of referencing, make a ‘decent’ attempt at it and do not plagiarise, then they have understood and applied the basics of this necessary ‘Graduate Skill’.
For interviews the referencing is similar to the normal Harvard in the text (Interviewee name and year) but in the list the full name, position / title of the interviewee, date of interview and place should be included as without this information there could be an issue of authenticity i.e. is it bogus and been fabricated?
(As you move up the ‘degree ladder’ referencing and research increases in intensity and the requirements applied more strictly – it is the ‘nature of the beast’ – just had a quick look at my Masters dissertation – the Reference List was 11 pages long and the Bibliography another 3! and with many academic papers , you find that the length of these lists tends to exceed the actual text!!!!)
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