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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Source disclosure?
Hi. I have two questions on subject matters that might arise when posting a question using an outside (if I could call it that) source like a book or online reference source.
1. Could we take one or two sentences out of articles or books to ask a grammar question without divulging sources?
2. When we copy and paste, or copy and write (if that is the right word) it in MS Word and then paste the content on the post (I am not sure I have said what I have to say right), do we have to say we copied and pasted it from a source? Or is it sufficient to say something is from a source and let people know what that source is but not say it is copied and pasted?
1. Could we take one or two sentences out of articles or books to ask a grammar question without divulging sources?
2. When we copy and paste, or copy and write (if that is the right word) it in MS Word and then paste the content on the post (I am not sure I have said what I have to say right), do we have to say we copied and pasted it from a source? Or is it sufficient to say something is from a source and let people know what that source is but not say it is copied and pasted?
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"Divulging"? You don't have to, but it's sometimes helpful for us to know. If you've copied from an 18th century novel, it might give some context that we wouldn't otherwise have.
- "Divulging"?
- You don't have to, but it's sometimes helpful for us to know.
- If you've copied from an 18th century novel, it might give some context that we wouldn't otherwise have.
- I don't understand your issue about copying and pasting.
- No one cares if you typed it all over again or used the good old "Control+C" -- however, sometimes doing that imports lines and lines of formatting code that is very annoying, so drop it into something like "notepad" without formatting first.
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"Divulging"? You don't have to, but it's sometimes helpful for us to know. If you've copied from an 18th century novel, it might give some context that we wouldn't otherwise have.
I don't understand your issue about copying and pasting. No one cares if you typed it all over again or used the good old "Control+C" -- however, sometimes doing that imports lines and lines of formatting code
I don't understand your issue about copying and pasting. No one cares if you typed it all over again or used the good old "Control+C" -- however, sometimes doing that imports lines and lines of formatting code
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