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Johonny

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11. I have

Reply to aolwien (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 06:31 PM

Sep 2013

The best advice I can give is to document everything and let your editor recommend to remove or reduce them. It is vastly easier to remove things post editing than to remember where you found a source after the fact. In general you should not have to annotate every sentence since presumably you will be adding your own opinion, insight, work to the material being cited.

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Good advice aolwien Sep 2013 #7

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