Research project part E

LEARNING ACTIVITY 7 1

LEARNING ACTIVITY 7

Name- Kiran Gill

Student Id- 2019052245

Yorkville University

Learning Activity 7

Professor- Sunny Mangat

An in-text citation is the brief form of reference used in between the text or in the work done, It differentiates the reference from other sources- because for every in-text citation there is the corresponding entry in the reference list at last (Libraries, 2020).

The APA format in-text citation includes the author’s name and the year of publication, for example (Gill, 1999)- this is for one author if there are two authors (Gill & Bhathal, 2017), three or more authors (Bhathal et al., 2020).

It is very important for one to cite to give credit to the original author whose idea or work has been used by us and it also helps the one who is reading your work to locate the sources and to learn more about the same if required (Libraries, 2020)

The same can be applied to why a reference is required, also reference helps one to differentiate what is our own idea and which are someone else’s, it helps to avoid plagiarism. It also helps readers to identify what sources were referred to (Sydney, 2019).

References

Libraries, P. S. (2020, May 26 ). Penn State University Libraries. Retrieved from https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/apaquickguide

Sydney, U. (2019, October 29). UNSW Sydney . Retrieved from https://student.unsw.edu.au/why-referencing-important