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EDC1001: Researching and referencing your assignments

EDC1001: Researching and referencing your assignments

This tutorial covers how to find reliable and academic information for your assignments and how to references these sources.

You will learn the type of information you need to use for your assignments and how to effectively search the library catalgoue for this information.

Referencing is an important component of all academic writing and you will learn how to use APA7 for your work.

Click on the link or the image below to go to the tutorial.

EDC1001: Researching and Referencing Your Assignments - Tutorial

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Referencing FAQs

 

Frequently asked referencing questions from EDC1001 students

You reference any presentation the same as a written essay. Use in-text referencing to indicate your source of ideas, including page and paragraph numbers for quotes and images from other sources. Then these appear in your reference list, usually at the end of the presentation on a separate slide. This video (3:41) shows how to reference different types of information in a presentation, including:
  • images
  • quotes in text form
  • covers of books (literature)
  • an infographic created from more than one source
  • a graph or image from a website
  • an embedded video from another source.
The BRiTE program should be referenced as a web page, and the author is Caroline Mansfield (as stated on the website). Instructions for referencing a webpage in the Guide can be found here.

 

So, not knowing what the title of the booklet or page is you are referencing, your reference would look something like this:

Mansfield, C. (2014). Title. URL.

Some of the information may be from other sources. If you are referencing secondary sources, it is always good practice to locate the primary source. Look at the source's reference list and try locating the original source in the library catalogue or perhaps on Google Scholar.

Information about referencing secondary sources can be found here.

Yes, you need to reference every source each time you refer to it or paraphrase it. This can be multiple times in a paragraph. It does look funny at first, but when you get used to academic writing and its formatting, you will see it is perfectly normal!

More information about in-text citations can be found here

This video introduces in-text referencing.

When referencing an image or icon from Canva you need to locate the title, creator, and URL, and this can be a little difficult to find! To find this information:
  • Open your project
  • Hover your mouse over the image in the graphics panel on the left
  • Click on the ellipsis, or three dots, to the top right of the image
  • The title will be hyperlinked, click on this title.
  • The image will open on a separate web page.
  • Use the URL of this page in your reference, and the title and author information.

This video demonstrates this process and also includes how to use the APA7 referencing guide for referencing your image.

If the in-text references are from the same document, such as a book, online PDF, or webpage, then you only have it once in your reference list.

However, if you use two different web pages from the one website, then each web page should appear in your reference list.

Google is a search engine and should never be included in a citation or reference list. Always go to the original source page of the image and use information from there for your reference.
Short answer - NO!

MyBib and others like it are called referencing generators, and there are many available online, in Word, and even in our library catalogue and databases, such as EBSCO. Because the references are generated by an algorithm that cannot think for itself, most of the time they are incorrect, mostly in their formatting which is an important aspect of referencing. There may be components you need, such as authors, titles, etc, however you are responsible for your referencing. Always use the UniSQ APA7 Referencing Guide to create your own references. Unfortunately, there is no quick fix!