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When you reference,
what you're doing

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is you're communicating
something to your reader, which

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is simply, this is where I found
the thing I'm talking about.

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Students, at a
level, of have been

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given quite a lot of free
rein in the type of sources

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which they are allowed to use.

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And they can actually go to the
web for sources of information.

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We wouldn't necessarily
want that at university.

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We want the students to
be more critical in terms

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of the references which
they are then using.

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The number of
journals is growing.

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The number of papers is growing.

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And so the base of
which the students

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are expected to draw
from is growing.

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So I think to
effectively reference,

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you need to be on top
of that growing base.

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The principle
problems students face

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when referencing,
in my experience,

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is that they only reference
things they quote directly,

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which leads them
to over quoting.

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They need to understand that
they can also reference sources

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of information,
sources of ideas,

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even when they have
paraphrased them.

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And they don't need
always to quote directly.

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They're not familiar with
the right way of referencing

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a piece of paper or a book,
or some scholarly work,

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and makes the output less
clear than it should be.

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I think it can be confusing
for students at the start

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to work out how to
reference accurately,

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and what's the frequency with
which they should reference.

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So does every single
sentence that one writes need

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to reference, or can they
be more widely spaced?

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When they start
seeing why it's there,

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then they start to find it much
easier because they understand

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the rationale.

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But when we're
simply saying, you

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must follow these
guidelines, then

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it can all be quite
confusing and pointless.

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