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To restate someone’s ideas using your own words and your own sentence structure. Paraphrasing offers an alternative method to quoting for using information from someone else’s work. It’s important to remember that even when you paraphrase you must give a reference to the original work. For more details see UnlockingResearch. |
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Portable Document Format. A PDF file is used for electronic versions of articles, books, pamphlets or flyers as it preserves the original formatting (fonts, images, layout, etc.). To open a PDF file you need to have installed the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software which you can download from the Adobe website. |
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Scholarly articles that have been evaluated by experts in the same field. The process begins when an article is submitted to a scholarly journal for publication. The editor first sends the article to a group of experts in the field. These experts review the article and make comments and recommendations about its publication. Not all articles make it through this process. Those that do are called peer-reviewed articles and are published in a scholarly or peer-reviewed journal. |
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évaluation par les pairs |
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The use of someone else’s words, ideas, images, statistical information or other original material without acknowledging the source. This is considered a serious offence and can lead to a failing grade. Examples of plagiarism:
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An introduction to a book or a document which appears before the main text. It is usually written by the author or the editor and explains the purpose of the document, describes why it was written and often establishes the credibility of the author. |
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Original material. This could be a firsthand account, a legal document, a memoir, a work of art, results of an experiment, or statistical data. Some examples include the Quebec Bill 101, the journal of Lucy Maud Montgomery, a research article presenting new research, and the letters of Sigmund Freud. Primary sources are produced by the individual (or group) who witnessed or created the event or information in question. See also: Secondary Source |
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