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Communication Skills LibGuide

Communication & Interpersonal Skills

Style Guides

The standard for Australian Government writing and editing

The Style Manual is for everyone who writes, edits or approves Australian Government content. Use it to create clear and consistent content that meets the needs of users. The Australian Government Style Manual (Style Manual) is the definitive resource for Australian Government content. It helps you put people’s needs at the centre of the content you create. It’s the toolkit for making information easy to read, accessible and inclusive.

The Style Manual is produced and published by the Australian Public Service Commission.

Australian Government Style Manual

Referencing

Style and Grammar Guidelines

APA Style provides a foundation for effective scholarly communication because it helps writers present their ideas in a clear, concise, and inclusive manner. When style works best, ideas flow logically, sources are credited appropriately, and papers are organized predictably. People are described using language that affirms their worth and dignity. Authors plan for ethical compliance and report critical details of their research protocol to allow readers to evaluate findings and other researchers to potentially replicate the studies. Tables and figures present information in an engaging, readable manner.

APA Style and Grammar Guidelines

Plagiarism

Turnitin is an electronic text matching system. The database contains copies of electronic text on the Internet, in published works, on commercial databases, and in assignments previously submitted to Turnitin by students all over the world.

Turnitin provides an Originality Report in which 'matched' text is underlined, colour coded, and linked to either the original source or a similar document on its database. The report also provides a Similarity Index.