‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’: Recontextualization in Writing from Sources

Science and Engineering Ethics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1297-1314

  Li, Yongyan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

English as an additional language (EAL) authors; Expert scientist writers; Note taking strategies; Plagiarism in scientific publishing; Recontextualization in writing from sources

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; WRITING;

AUTHORSHIP; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; PUBLICATIONS; PUBLISHING; SCIENCE; WRITING;

EID: 84941931297     PISSN: 13533452     EISSN: 14715546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-014-9590-4     Document Type: Article

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