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Self-Plagiarism

August 29, 2011 by

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By now most authors have at least heard this term, but it has only recently begun to be more clearly understood!  So if you are still wondering what the fuss is all about – take heed!  I won’t go into a lot of detail here because the details are described very well by in a… [Read more…]

Evaluating Web (and other) resources

July 14, 2011 by

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In just the past few short years, the World Wide Web has become like a physical library.  Academic libraries, to a significant degree, now provide journal articles to their constituents as PDF files, replacing the old, large, and very popular “copy machine” room housed in their physical spaces.  A natural extension of this is the… [Read more…]

Attention to detail

April 29, 2011 by

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“Your great attention to detail is both a blessing and a curse”  - Chinese proverb This message, found in a fortune cookie, inspired the folks at Oxford University Press (the publishers of the AMA Manual of Style, used by ANS), to start a blog!  The blog is the AMA Style Insider, and I highly recommend… [Read more…]

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