Your research log holds the trail of what you used. Today every entry becomes a full reference in the class format, or it leaves the project.

A reference is the full credit for one source, written so a reader could find it again. Your log note becomes a complete reference.

Check the board example against the five fields. What would make this reference unusable?

Board checklist (match the order your class agreed):

• creator or organisation
• title or short description
• link
• date accessed
• licence or permission (the rule that says whether you are allowed to reuse an image, clip or sound — e.g. free to use with credit, or permission from the owner)

(n.d.) means no publication date was given on the page. Write n.d. only when you truly cannot find a date on the page; still add the date you accessed it in the date-accessed field.

A marker reading your project should be able to open every source you used in one click. Today you make that true, or you cut what you cannot stand over.

Match the order and labels on the board (the format your class agreed). Copy-ready template if you need the fields laid out:

Creator: ____ | Title/description: ____ | Link: ____ | Date accessed: ____ | Licence/permission (if reused media): ____

If you used AI help (for ideas, wording, or images), add a separate reference: tool name | what you used it for | date you used it | note that it is AI-generated.

Each full reference you finish is one less thing a marker can challenge. Treat cutting a mystery source as a win, not a fail.

1. Read the first log entry. Write a full reference for it in the agreed format: creator, title or description, link, date accessed, and licence or permission if you reused media.
2. Mark the log entry as referenced once the full credit is written.
3. If a field is missing (no creator, broken link, no licence for reused media), mark the entry incomplete and move on. Do not invent details you cannot check.
4. Repeat for every source that appears in your draft or log. Your aim by the end of this stretch is a reference for each source you can still trace.

At about minute eight: hold up one finished reference or one incomplete flag for a 60-second stand-and-show, then back to work.

Before you finish, check:

• every traceable source has a full reference in the agreed format
• incomplete entries are clearly flagged, not silently skipped
• your reference list is saved the class way so it is still there next session

Now deal with every entry you marked incomplete.

• Spend about four minutes on one recovery pass: re-open the link, check your browser history, or re-find the page from the title. If you recover it, finish the reference. Anything still stuck gets a replace/remove/plan note — do not keep hunting.
• If you still cannot trace creator, link or licence, choose: replace it with a source you can credit fully, or remove it from the draft and the log. Write a one-line note of what you did and why. If you need time to gather a proper replacement, note that plan for before the next checkpoint rather than inventing a credit now.
• Save the updated reference list and log the class way.

Before you finish, check (in this period):

• every incomplete entry has a decision note (replace, remove, or plan to replace before next checkpoint)
• no source left in the project without either a full reference or a clear cut/replace note
• list saved the class way
• partner gap noted if you had time for the swap

Pull together what this period changed about your project. A complete reference list is part of the evidence of your process, not an extra task bolted on at the end.