Reflective Learning in Health and Social Care

REFLECTION IN
HEALTH AND SOCIAL
CARE

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................1
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................1
Importance of referencing in Academic Writing........................................................................1
Personal reflection project...........................................................................................................3
Importance of reflection in health and social care project..........................................................4
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................9
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1

Introduction
Referencing is the practice of acknowledging the sources from where the data is
collected in the body of work. This project will cover the importance of referencing in
academic writing and how it helps to keep a check on plagiarism. Academic writing is
based upon the ideas, opinions and experience of more than one one author. Academic
writings are generally carried out with the help of research from sources like books,
journal articles, websites etc. These may help the writer to support his ideas with
realistic and fundamental concepts and theories already framed by various authors.
TASK
Importance of referencing in Academic Writing
Academic writing is the presentation of ideas and opinions in a discussion or
argument. Referencing refers to enhancement of academic writing by the inclusion of
realistic theories and studies given by various authors and recognising them in the body
of article (Bailey, 2014). Referencing often aims at appreciating the research and
fundamentals given by other writers and thus including them to provide a strong base to
the original report. Referencing is all about tracing the authenticity of views given by the
writer in academic writing. This practice helps the readers to identify the source from
which the information is taken and to further read about the topic if they wish to.
References provide links of the resource from where the information is collected. These
links include the name of author, type of resource such as book, journal, online and
time when the information and the year when the study was originally published.
Reference is the bracketed or footnoted piece of information that communicates to the
reader the source of evidence provided in report (Horstmanshof and Brownie, 2013).
Furthermore, it creates a link between the original study and the way a writer conveys
those ideas without changing the basic idea proposed by author. This is more
commonly known as paraphrasing. In this phenomenon, writer has to cite from where
the main idea is taken by providing proper evidence for readers.
Referencing ensures the security of work provided by various authors. This can
be done if academic writing is done by following the proposed structure. Thus
referencing prevents plagiarism. Plagiarism refers to the act of presenting an author's