Worksheet 1: Introduction to APA Referencing

Task 1
Answer these questions with a small group:
1. What is referencing?
An acknowledge method that standardised sources information and ideas that you
used in your assignment or research that is not authentically yours.
2. Why do you need to reference?
To let your reader, know that you have done your homework and you are building
from the ideas and research of others
3. What do you need to reference?
Reference list includes the sources of the material that you have used in the actual writing of
the assignment.

4. What is a citation?
In text citation is a shortened citation that refers the reader to the full citation located
in the reference list at the end of your paper. From there the reader is able to look up
or retrieve the source aka reference the source.
Citation is known as a reference to a source of information that tells your readers
that certain material in your work came from another source.
5. How do you write citations using APA Referencing?

The in text citation consists of the author’s last name, the publication year and the
page number or other locator such as a time stamp, paragraph number, or even
heading. Page number do not required is you referring to your source as a whole.

6. What is a reference list?

A reference list is a list of the publication information for the sources you’ve cited in your
paper and is intended to give your readers all the information they need to find those
sources. In other publication styles, this list may be called a bibliography or a works cited
page, but APA uses the term reference list.

7. What happens if you use someone’s ideas but don’t reference them?
If you use someone else’s words or ideas without properly crediting them, you could
be committing plagiarism. The consequences of plagiarism vary based on the
severity of the offense.
Level of plagirism Example Consequences
Mild  Source cited in text Grade penalty or automatic
but left out of zero
reference list
  Quotation marks
omitted around a
quote

Moderate  Text copied from a Failing grade on course

source with a few
words changed
 Source paraphrased
without citation

severe  Patchwork of different Academic probation or

texts passed off as expulsion
original
 Paper written by
someone else

8. When and how will you be assessed on your use of referencing on the course
you’re currently on?
Everytime we do assignment that used others work, we need to used referencing.

Task 2
Read the following paragraph on the rise of women’s football and highlight all the
citations.
The rise of women’s football
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in women’s football in
the UK, both in attendance and on television. Many believe the women’s national
team’s success at the 2015 and 2019 World Cups accounts for the fact that turnout
at domestic games and television viewing figures have both risen by 174% and
231% respectively (Gregory, 2020). Sports Minister Nigel Huddleston MP (2021,
para.6) believes that the government “must do all [it] can to give [women’s football]
the visibility it deserves”, which is why the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and
Sport (2021) revealed it has provided grants, funding and Covid-19 testing kits to
several women’s football clubs so that players could continue to play during the
recent global pandemic. Despite the increased popularity and financial support for
the women’s game, more could be done in schools to encourage young girls to take
up the sport. As Roan (2019, para. 14) points out, although almost 200,000 women
in England play football regularly, this is in no comparison to our American
counterparts, whose figure is 9.5 million and counting, and also where “the 1972
Education Amendments Act, which enshrined gender equality into the federal
education system and college sport, lives on”. Thus, the objective that football in
primary schools and after-school clubs will be accessible to all girls between the
ages 5 and 11 across England (The FA, 2020) remains uncertain.

References
Gregory, R., (2020) Women's football audience more than doubled since 2017.
[online] Her Football Hub. https://herfootballhub.com/womens-football-audience-
more-than-doubled-since-2017/
Huddleston, N., (2021) Government announces additional support for women's
football clubs. Department for digital culture media & sport [online] GOV.UK.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-additional-support-for-
womens-football-clubs
Roan, D., (2019) What next after landmark World Cup? [online] BBC Sport.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48906848
The FA, (2020) New FA women's football strategy unveiled: inspiring positive
change. [online] www.thefa.com. https://www.thefa.com/news/2020/oct/19/new-fa-
womens-strategy-launched-191020
Worksheet 2
Task 1
Reorder the following sentences, then compare with a small group.
1. 2019 Amnesty International which campaigns for human rights is around the
world a non-governmental organisation according to Augustyn.
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2. reports that p. 6 “remains six months after the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine highly
effective its second dose” Hopkins 2021.
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3. Tuppen almost 10% of CO2 emissions the aviation industry in the UK
accounts for 2021 reveals that.
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4. “the world’s population 15% of live with 2020 a disability” according to para. 4
WHO.
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5. The Office for National Statistics compared to fell by between December 2020
and February 2021 the number of job vacancies report that a quarter a year
ago 2021.
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Task 2
Identify the referencing and/or use of source errors in the following sentences, and
then compare with a small group.
1. “The world’s fastest-growing ecommerce market is China with an estimated value
of $672 billion in 2017 (ecommerce guide 2020, para. 7)”.
2. The Child Poverty Action Group 2021 affirm that twice the number of UK children
fell into poverty in the last year.
3. (Baym, Larson and Martin, 2021) argue that despite an increase in the number of
meetings, employees feel more isolated and less connected, due to remote working.
4. It is claimed that ‘the equivalent of one garbage truck full of clothes is burned or
dumped in a landfill every second” (Ellen Macarthur Foundation, para. 6).
5. According to Nature Watch’s article (Nature Watch 2020, para 3) “up to 400,000
farmed puppies are sold to the British public every year”.

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