It’s not too late to embed referencing support into your course

Now is a great time to embed referencing support into your course. As your students are sifting through research and writing feverishly, they might be neglecting to reference as they go. Unfortunately scrambling to complete referencing in the hour before the assignment is due, is a common situation students find themselves in. In that moment of stress, they may make an uninformed guess at how to cite information or worse, they leave references unacknowledged.

To help avoid these situations the University Library is here to assist educators by providing the top 5 ways they can embed referencing support in their courses - at the right time:

1. Provide a link in MyUni to the Library’s Referencing support page at the times students are writing their assignments
2. If you ask your students to use the Harvard referencing style, link to the Library’s interactive Harvard UofA guide. For any other referencing styles, link to the guide on our webpage for other style guides
3. Contact the Library’s Learning Support team to have the useful ‘Acknowledge information’ module of our Library Essentials course embedded directly into your MyUni course
4. Demonstrate good referencing practice throughout your course by referencing and providing in-text citations where appropriate, following the style guide that you have asked your students to use
5. If your students are at the advanced end of their degree, or doing higher level research, consider promoting EndNote to help organise and manage the references they have accumulated, and provide links to our EndNote course and guide

The Library is more than happy to assist with referencing and EndNote questions, so if any of your students are having trouble, please send them our way

For more information about referencing or to discuss the Library’s support for referencing in your course, contact the Learning Support team.