Academic English > Referencing
When writing academic texts, it is necessary to highlight the use of other author’s ideas and words in order to:
- give the original author credit for their own ideas and work
- validate your arguments
- enable the reader to follow up on the original work if they wish to
- enable the reader to see how dated the information might be
- prove to your tutors/lecturers that you have read around the subject
- avoid plagiarism