Plagiarism- ‘presenting someone else's work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.’ (University of Oxford, 2017) 

Referencing and citing allows you to include other people’s ideas into your work, strengthening your essays, and showing your readers that you have fully researched your subject, without appearing to steal another’s intellectual property. It allows the reader of your work to see where you gathered your information or ideas. 

Your Tutor will submit your assignments to a website called Turnitin. This website is a plagiarism prevention service. Turnitin will identify similarities to existing sources and other people’s written work- if you haven’t credited this work you will be found to be plagiarising.  

If you have inadvertently or deliberately plagiarised, your work may not be marked and you can face serious consequences, such as disciplinary action or expulsion from the course. So make sure you check you have given the relevant credit before handing your work in. 

You need to reference all your sources of information.

‘Pupils need to be aware of the boundaries within to manage their behaviour, so that they understand what is expected of them’ (Burnham, 2011, p58)

If the citation is a direct quote you will need to include page numbers in the citation, if it is a summarised idea or paraphrased by yourself, only include the author’s name and year. Include page numbers with a “p.” or “pp.”, if you are quoting from several pages.

You should then put a full reference at the end of your work in a reference list or bibliography. 

Burnham, L. (2011). Supporting teaching and learning in schools (Secondary). Essex, England: Heinemann. 

We cite throughout our work so we can easily find where information came from, by looking at our reference list.