Can I cite my own previously submitted work?

In general, you shouldn’t duplicate text from your own previously submitted work. To duplicate your own text without proper citation is not allowed and considered self-plagiarism.

It is possible to use your own previously submitted work as a source (with citation), but you need a good reason to do so. If you find that it is necessary to use your own work, the use should be limited. Note that when you submit a home exam or an exam essay, you need to confirm that your submission has not previously been submitted for assessment. This also pertains to parts of the text you are submitting.

Even though it is your own previous work, you must still refer to it, both in the text and in the list of references. Otherwise, your work may appear to be plagiarism for the examiner.

Standard rules for referencing apply, with some exceptions: Because exam submissions must be anonymous, you should write |Own Work| instead of the author’s name. The title of the cited work may for instance be presented as |Home exam in EX1022: Examen Facultatum|. It should be noted if the source is unpublished (see information regarding unpublished material in your style of reference at https://sokogskriv.no/en/. In the list of references, the sources should be placed under the letter O.

Exception: You do not need to cite you own work if you re-submit an exam in a course where the form of exam is essay submission, portfolio exam or master’s thesis. The most common example of this is when you have failed an exam and later submit a revised version.