The document discusses the significance of referencing in academic writing, emphasizing its role in avoiding plagiarism. It outlines various referencing methods, including APA, MLA, Oxford, Harvard, and Chicago, with a focus on the Harvard method. The document provides guidelines for creating a reference list, including organization and formatting rules.

1. REFERENCING
What is it actually and why is it important?

2. Why do we need to reference?
 Key to academic writing
 Acceptable practice
 Avoid plagiarism

3. What is plagiarism?
 Copying of information
 Cut and paste
 Changing words from copied text
 Summarising ideas without acknowledgement
 Translating material
HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM?
Acknowledge sources that you used

4. REFERENCING METHODS
 APA
 MLA
 Oxford
 Harvard
 Chicago

5. Harvard Method
 Widely used in academics
 To be used in referencing in coming videos
 Name of the game is uniformity
 Acknowledge in-text and at reference list

6. REFERENCE LIST
 All sources used
 How to do it?
 On a separate sheet
 Organized alphabetically
 If there is no author order by the source title
 For multiple work by same author, order by date
 For multiple work by same author in the same year, order alphabetically by
title and allocate a letter (a,b,c etc.)
 Be double spaced