Librarians' advice is available to help you improve your referencing skills.
- If in doubt, you may check with a Librarian, whilst considering they can only check small samples of your referencing work. Librarians will not help with making corrections to all of your references because that would be giving you an unfair advantage (and receiving proof-reading services is an academic offence).
- BU Librarians can help check over a sample of student’s referencing, typically, when it's in draft form/stage, before it's submitted and marked. If you have queries about marks you have received for referencing in any assessment, it's best to liaise with the BU academic(s) who graded your work and discuss it with them first. After that, you may contact a Librarian for advice on how to improve your referencing skills. Librarians do not mark your submitted assessments, lecturers do.
- You are being awarded course marks for your own efforts with referencing. Using proof reading services is an academic offence, therefore you should not expect to receive that type of support at university (see 'Using an editor/proof reader' in BU's webpage How to avoid academic offences).
