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Develop your digital literacy skills – Referencing

You need to understand why it is important to acknowledge and reference others' work – this is an important digital skill.

Image of hand writing Referencing
Image of hand writing Referencing

Start by taking our etutorial Introduction to Referencing and Plagiarism.

If you are a Keele student book onto our RefWorks course to learn how you can use a reference management tool to help you to keep track of your references.


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