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Mellon Mays Guide to Research

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personal with quote thought bubble Citation and Attribution

Citation and attribution are the foundation of scholarly conversation.

undefinedLiterature Review

Learn practical strategies and organizational methods for writing a literature review.

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Learning Objectives

This guide was designed to help you:

  • Recognize that information has social and scholarly value
  • Identify the traditional and emerging processes of information creation and dissemination in the scholarly conversation
  • Give credit to the original ideas of others through attribution and/or formal citation conventions
  • Explain and compare the distinguishing characteristics of copyright, fair use, open access, and the public domain
  • Understand that intellectual property is a social construct that varies by culture
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Attribution

Icons by Noun Project: citation by Nithinan Tatah, TH licensed under CC BY 3.0 represents organizing and using information; Learning by Iconstock, TH licensed under CC BY 3.0 represents literature review.