Presenation of Essays and Referencing

 some notes for guidance:

Presentation of Essays

 

Guidelines

 

 

Essays should be typed, 1.5 or double spaced. 

 

Please justify the margins on both sides. Fonts: use Arial, font size 12. 

 

The first page of your essay should include at the top; 

-       your name

-       student number

-       year and term of study (ie: autumn 2019-20)

-       module title and code

-       module tutor

-       full title of assignment

-       date written 

-       final word count (this excludes your cover page bibliography and any appendices)

 

 

Please do not use bold type or underlining in your essay, but italicize any foreign words as well as book titles and titles of choreographic works, plays or films.

 

For direct quotes in your essay use single quotation marks ‘…….’ followed by a full citation (author, year, pg).

 

For quotes of 3 lines or longer please indent the whole quote and citation from th body of the essay text (1cm margins on both sides).

 

 

References in bibliography:

 

A bibliography is a list of all source material you have used, whether or not you have quoted from it. It is important to show that you have extended your knowledge by referring to other texts/works. A bibliography should be presented in alphabetical order of author’s surname. There are various ways of setting out a bibliography, but the details should always include:

 

Book:

Surname, Initial(s). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place of Publication: Publisher.

 

ie:

Fraleigh, S.H. 1996. Dance and the lived body: A descriptive aesthetics. USA: University of Pittsburgh Press.

 

 

 

Edited book:

Surname, Initial(s). (ed.). Date of publication. Title in italics. Place: Publisher.

 

ie:

Fraleigh, S. ed., 2015. Moving consciously: somatic transformations through dance,

yoga, and touch. University of Illinois Press.


 

Book chapter:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Chapter title. In Name of editor (ed.), Book Title. Place of Publication: Publisher, pages in book.

 

For example:

Akinleye, A. and Kindred H. 2018. In-the-between-ness: Decolonising and Re-inhabiting our dancing. In Akinleye, A. (ed)., Narratives of Black British Dance: embodied practices. London: Palgrave, chapter 6

 

Journal articles:

Surname, Initial(s). Date. Title of article. Title of journal volume (issue no.), page numbers.

 

ie:

Nelson,L. 2006. ‘Fragment of a tuning run’, Contact Quarterly, vol.39. no.1

 

Videography / DVDs (a list of videos /DVDs you have used):

Name of choreographer. Date of work. Title of work in italics. [DVD/video, etc]. Place of distribution, distributing company.

 

ie:

Khan, A. and Cherkaoui, S.L. 2008. Zero Degrees [DVD]. Sadler’s Wells on Screen. Axiom Films International Limited.

 

Media broadcast, e.g. television programme

Title. Year. Type of media. Originator (e.g. channel). Exact date and time of broadcast.

ie:

TEDTalks. 2018. https://www.ted.com/talks. TED conference Boston July 2002

 

Live performance:

Choreographer. Year of premiere. Title in italics. Company (optional). [Location. Date seen].

 

ie:

Morris, M. 2018. Layla and Majnun. [Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London. 8 November 2018].

 

 

Check list: 

 

·      Whose essay is this? Remember to put your Name on your essay!

·      Guide your reader – PAGE NUMBERS and SUB-HEADINGS are helpful

·      Is it all your own thoughts? MAKE SURE TO REFERENCE OTHERS WORK YOU ARE INCLUDING

·      CITATIONS after quotes (WHO, WHERE, WHEN)

eg: (KINDRED, 2018:Pg.4) from a book or article, OR (https://www.helen-kindred.com/) from a website.

·      Talk to people whose work you’ve read or watched by name… FULL NAME at first mention, SURNAME, thereafter.

eg: Eric Franklin talks about alignment as dynamic and uses imagery to help dancers attain correct postural alignment…Franklin also discusses…

·      READ to LEARN, not for a QUICK QUOTE (Wikipedia is not a great source to use!)

·      Acknowledge ALL you’ve read and watched that has informed your learning for this essay.

·      NOTE your own experiences and how you can RELATE these to what you are reading. LOOK FOR THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE.