During your time of study you will write texts where you should demonstrate your knowledge within your field of study and where you should show that you have mastered academic writing. This method of writing is adapted to building up an argumentation which supports your own research results. In the argumentation it is important to integrate other people’s research in your own line of argument. Scientific work is never separate but builds on work done by earlier researchers.

If references to other research are not made correctly you could risk plagiarizing. Because of this it is important that you learn how you can use other people’s texts and how you should refer to those by adding references.

Refero is a web based tutorial which shows how you can use other people’s texts in your own text and how to avoid plagiarism. The tutorial contains 16 pages and takes about 30 minutes to go through.