Referencing / Sarah Eaton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eaton, Sarah Elaine, author.

Series:

Student success.

SAGE skills: student success

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bibliographical citations.

Plagiarism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Academic writing is mainly associated with formal language. In academic texts, we aim to ensure that the meaning that we would like to transmit does not vary from person to person. For this reason, we avoid vague language as its comprehension changes in accordance with individuals' background knowledge. In addition, we also benefit from terminology in academic texts to avoid communication problems. Supporting our claims with reference to other sources is the main characteristic differentiating academic writing from the other types of formal writing. Our citations, whether through quotations, paraphrases, and summaries, provide evidence to our readers about the accuracy of our claims. References to other sources give our readers the impression that as the author of that paper we are knowledgeable about the relevant literature, and we make previous researchers' ideas traceable by our readers so that they can find the sources we cite to retrieve more information directly from these original sources. In the case of benefiting from someone else's ideas or expressions, we need to inform our readers that these are coming from other sources; otherwise, we would be plagiarizing them. Yet, it is not a good idea to provide all details about the cited sources in our main text because it spoils the readability of our paper. That is why we use in-text citations to cite the other sources in the main text of our papers. Depending on the academic writing style that we are using, we may be expected to cite the author's surname along with ...

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (SAGE Publications, viewed December 24, 2022).

ISBN:

1-0718-9312-2

9781071893128

OCLC:

1341862868