The Authority of Citations and Quotations in Academic Papers
I consider some uses of citations in academic writing and analyze them as instances of the “appeal to expert opinion” argumentative scheme to show that the critical questions commonly linked to this scheme are difficult to apply. I argue that, by considering citations as special communicative and ar...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2014-06-01
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Series: | Informal Logic |
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Online Access: | https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/3649 |