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Dubois, Betty Lou – English for Specific Purposes, 1988
Examination of how biomedical scientists cite the published work of others in their own journal articles revealed that subjects tended to summarize or generalize others' articles and used few direct quotations and little paraphrasing. The results suggest ethical and instructional questions relating to which citation forms should be taught to…
Descriptors: Biomedicine, Citations (References), Ethics, Plagiarism