Some reflections on plagiarism: The problem of paraphrasing in the sciences

European Science Editing

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 38-41

  Roig, Miguel ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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