Benefits of referencing

Avoiding plagiarism is not the only reason for referencing. There are many others.

• Receiving credit for your own hard work and research
  
  
• Demonstrating your intellectual integrity by conforming to agreed academic standards of good practice
  
  
• Receiving meaningful feedback from your tutor that is targeted to the level you are really at (not pretending to be)
  
  
• Contextualising your work to show how it relates to current research and debates
  
  
• Directing your reader to sources of information and enabling them to 'pick up the thread'