Course Glossary

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Here are some words that you should be familiar with for this course.

Unless otherwise noted, definitions from Wiktionary. CC BY SA

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Plagiarism

Remember, just because you put it in your own words doesn't mean you're not plagiarizing.

Noun

plagiarism (countable and uncountable, plural plagiarisms)

  1. (uncountable) The act of plagiarizing: the copying of another person's ideas, text or other creative work, and presenting it as one's own, especially without permission.

Primary evidence

Facts and details that have been drawn from documents rather than from other, more recent, explanatory articles or books. The main distinction is that primary materials are the documents or other non-text evidence (incl., newspapers, media programs, interviews, coins, etc.) that are produced at the time. (Also often referred to as “primary sources.”)

A Guide to Reading and Analyzing Academic Articles, by Amanda Graham, 1997-2012, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.