Unveiling the Harvard Referencing Style: A Critical Essay

• Brief review of article.
• Aspects of article that are most important,most interesting and/or most contentious.

• Is the article conceptual or empirical? 
a. What type of methodology has been adopted? 
b. Criticisms of the methodology? 
c. What could the authors have done differently?
• What have other authors done for this type of research?
• What would you suggest for future research?

• What did you learn from the article? 
• What did you already know? 
• Is there anything in the article that surprised you? 
• What did you like/dislike about the article? Why? 
• How does the article compare with others in the same field? 
• What’s missing from the article? 
• Notes for yourself–could this article help you when you start work?What is it?Academic writing requires authors to support their arguments with reference to other published work or experimental results/findings.A reference system will perform three essential tasks.
? Enable you to acknowledge other authors’ideas.
? Enable a reader to quickly locate the source of the material you refer to so they can consult it if they wish.
? Indicate to the reader the scope and depth of your research.The Harvard style is a widely used referencing system to help you achieve these objectives.How do I use the Harvard Referencing Style?The Harvard style involves two tasks.
? How you refer to other authors in the body of your text (in-text citation).
? How you compile a list of reference sources at the end of your text (reference list).What does it look like?

Here is an extract showing what in-text citations look like in the Harvard Style (Where you are not quoting another’s specific ideas or exact words.See the next page for these.)It has been claimed that due to funding being almost exclusively available from the Irish Film Board (IFB),Irish film makers are restricted to the type of Ireland they can depict in their work(MacDougall, 2009).Jervir (2011)argues that subjects such as Northern Ireland are disproportionately represented as these are key areas of interest to the IFB.