Category: Writing Tips
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Mirror Mirror on the Wall –
Reflection on Reproducing a Figure Across Publications Let’s imagine that with many many hours of effort you have managed to produce a creative figure that effectively communicates theoretical insight about a phenomenon. You publish the figure in one article that reports on the research that led to development and, no doubt, endless rounds of refining…
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Framing Your Contribution
Related You Tube Link: Avoiding Self Plagiarism https://youtu.be/igtJ8o8XMLQ I once reviewed a manuscript by senior person in my field. It was on a topic that he’d written on before. He cited himself, one article in particular, more than 60 times. That’s three times a page on average. Is this shameless self-aggrandizement? Or is it scrupulous…