Reusing undergraduate work for postgrad (different unis)

Properly referenced, you could use it as a source.

Quoting your own unpublished student work would be a really bad idea. It will have been marked, but not peer-reviewed, for starters. It's therefore not a reputable academic source.

Assuming it's properly referenced then plagiarism doesn't come in to it.

My point was that you'll look very silly if you try it, will probably be marked down for it, and may (depending on the rigour of your marker(s)) be penalised for re-use of work which has already formed part of a formal academic assessment. Referencing it will merely serve to highlight that last point, which is an academic offence.

You can certainly go back to the same sources you used for undergrad work, and use them to answer a Masters question. But you can't re-use your own work which has previously been derived from those sources.

I have no idea about official rules on referencing your own work. But I can think of a couple of problems in doing so, from an academic perspective:

- How would they check your source? The point of referencing is so that the reader can look up the source and see for themselves.

- What exactly are you referencing? If you're referencing literature, then just reference the original source. If you're referencing data you collected in the previous paper then it is an unpublished, non-peer reviewed piece and has the same reliability and validity issues as any other unpublished, non-peer reviewed piece would have and if you're referencing conclusions or main points made in your previous work then just use the new information and your increased knowledge and experience to make these points again, without referencing your work. As I said before, the outcome of this new piece of work should be an order of magnitude higher than previously.

I'd have the same problem with Facebook posts, in that unless they are freely accessible, they are not a fully reliable source as I can't go and check it.