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Extended treatment of plagiarism – and how to avoid it
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Strathclyde University, UK, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the e writerʼs block
Higher Education Academy and Adjunct Professor at Swinburne
University in Melbourne, Australia. Understand the
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