Practice Context/Course guide/Referencing

Referencing
Referencing helps your reader/assessor to know where the information that supports your learning and thinking has come from.

To aim for the highest marks with your portfolio assessment you are asked to provide:
 * Comprehensive integration throughout narrative and reflective discussions of a broad range of educational literature and other forms of information that strongly support the discussion.
 * This supporting literature and information can be easily identified and located.

A specific referencing format has not been requested to ensure that you are not restricted in your choice of portfolio format.

When presenting written work it is the APA referencing format that is preferred but for this course not required.

For more information on APA referencing explore the following sites:


 * What is referencing?


 * APA referencing

There is also Citation Machine a great website that takes you through all the steps of adding the information required for a reference then produces the formatted reference for you. You can then cut and paste it into your document. Very handy.

Additional Resources

An easy guide to referencing from Writing with Confidence

A handbook with an easy question and answer approach from Massey University

APA Formatting and Style Guide from OWL Purdue Online Writing Lab, Purdue University.