Today's #ResearchTip is referencing is not just for work you are directly quoting. If you've read a book, paper or report, or watched a podcast or someone's talk that is directly informing your work THAT needs citing too! #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #gradschool #PhDChat
A lot of academics seem to believe if they're sharing other people's ideas but from their perspective, or they aren't using a quote or image directly, then this does not need crediting. It does! If you're passing off someone else's work as your own it's unfair and dishonest.
It's very much an issue that academics, often those with higher profiles, lift work from minoritised scholars and/or those not working in universities. They get credit for stuff that is not their work while the original authors remain unacknowledged and further sidelined.
I'm often asked about this in writing sessions and my advice is if you got an idea from someone then your audience needs to know who that somewhere is so they can locate and use their work or even collaborate with them.
And if you've got an idea from somewhere but you aren't sure where, all the more reason to track down the original source and cite it. Both to ensure credit is given and also to check you understood it correctly and are passing on accurate ideas.
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