You will need to read books, journal articles, conference papers, theses,
technical reports, WWW pages and other material from the first day of your
work on your theses, mini-project or project. It is important to record
accurately sufficient information for you to be able to identify the items
you have read so you can find them again or so you can give details (for
instance when you write your own reports) to enable other people to find them.
This part introduces the essential data elements needed to record bibliographic
information but does not deal with formatting this data in reports.
After this part, you should:
- know the basic data elements to be collected for common forms
of technical literature (eg books, journal articles, conferences,
theses and technical reports);
- explain why it is important to record such information fully
and consistently;
- appreciate that a high standard of data is taken fore granted in
the School's theses and reports;
- understand that a very few items will present difficulties and
know how to cope with difficult cases;
- know the proportions of the forms of material that typically
occur in the literature of computing.
