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This document provides examples of references written in incorrect styles and asks to rearrange them according to the USIM style of writing bibliographies. It includes references from newspaper articles, web pages, books, and incorrectly written author names, titles, publishers, and dates. The respondent is asked to rewrite each reference in the correct USIM style.

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Sample Question - Bibliography Assignment

This document provides examples of references written in incorrect styles and asks to rearrange them according to the USIM style of writing bibliographies. It includes references from newspaper articles, web pages, books, and incorrectly written author names, titles, publishers, and dates. The respondent is asked to rewrite each reference in the correct USIM style.

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Section A: Write a list of references for an essay from the information given below.

1. We don't know who wrote this newspaper article. It was in the Guardian newspaper on
Saturday November 6th this year. The title is: Divorced couple fight for frozen embryos. It
is on page 18.

n.a. 2015. “Divorced couple fight for frozen embryos”. Guardian. 6 November. P, 18
(1 mark)

2. Someone called Andy Gillett wrote this web page, which is very useful, and he worked at
the University of Hertfordshire. It was published on May 6th this year. The title is; Using
English for Academic purposes. The URL is http://www.uefap.com/ and I copied some
information from it for this exercise on Sunday November 7th at 11.00 at night.

Gillett, A. 2015. Using English for Academic Purposes. http://www.uefap.com


(1 mark)

3. This was published in 1991 in Oxford and is a book by Professor John Sinclair. The tritle
of the book is: Corpus, concordance and collocation and the publisher was Oxford
University press.

Sinclair, J. 1991. Corpus, concordance, and collocation. Oxford University Press.


(1 mark)

4. This small book is called: learning purpose and language use. It was written by Henry
George Widdowson and published in 1983. Like all his books it was published in Oxford
by Oxford University Press.

Widdowson, H.G. 1983. Learning purpose and language use. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.

(1 mark)

5. This newspaper article was written by Jane Martinson in Kuala Lumpur. The title of the
article is; Microsoft faces defining moment, and it was in Berita Harian on page 10 on
Saturday November 6th, 1999.

Martinson, J. 1999. “Microsoft faces defining moment”. Berita Harian. 6 November. p.


10. (1 mark)
Section B: These statements below have been wrongly written. Please rearrange them according
to USIM style of writing bibliography.

1. Sagatelyan, Georgy. 2008. Silencio! In Your Face Publishing, LaSalle & Heather.

Sagatelyan, G. 2008. “In Your Face”. Silencio !. LaSalle & Heather.


(1 mark)

2. (Mikey Mladenova). A Proper Young Lady: A Guide to Manners and Etiquette for
Wayward Gentlewomen. Toronto: Leafs’ Publishing Ltd., 2008.

Mladenova, M. 2008. A Proper Young Lady: A Guide to Manners and Etiquette for
Wayward Gentlewomen. Toronto: Leafs’ Publishing Ltd.
(1 mark)

3. D’Agata, Mario Nicola. Riot is My Gift!. 1993, McGill University, Cambridge,


Massachusetts:

D’Agata, M.N. 1993. Riot is My Gift!. Cambridge, Massachusetts: McGill University.


(1 mark)

4. A Solitary Life . (D’Addario-Vanessa). New York: The MacMillan Company. (1957).

D’Addario, V. 1957. A Solitary Life. New York: The MacMillan Company.


(1 mark)

5. Stefan Del Gaudio. 1986. Riot is My Life! London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd.
Ogburn, Del Gaudio, S. 1986.

Del Gaudio, S & Del Gaudio, O. 1986. Riot is My Life!. London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul Ltd.
(1 mark)

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