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You may get some questions on AskLive about how to reference a karakia or waiata for a TECM201 assignment. The students have been given some not-good-at-all advice from their lecturer, to reference ‘Tangata Whenua o Aotearoa’ as the author for karakia or waiata they cannot find an actual author for. I have been in touch with the academic, and we have come up with a solution.

Title of karakia. (n.d.). Retrieved March 30, 2020 from http://……

The first line of the karakia is an acceptable ‘Title of karakia’ if that is not obvious either. Usually we recommend that students do not source karakia, waiata and whakataukī from social media, pinterest or google images as these are not credible sources of Māori information. However at the moment, we also can’t take students into the collections to get these credible items. There is a list here on the Mātauranga Māori subject guide of credible website resources that students can use: https://canterbury.libguides.com/c.php?g=921512&p=6651650

However, if you find your student is very stressed and has used google images etc already, the above referencing option will cover that. If they have got a credible source like a book or iwi webpage, you can reference them as you normally would.

Any pātai, please ask me, and please feel free to refer any tricky queries or ones you are uncomfortable answering on to me.

Ngā mihi,

Lisa.