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  2. Plagiarism - Wikipedia

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    In this example, the introductory paragraph of the Wikipedia article for the Trojan War (top) has been copy-and-pasted into a Microsoft Word document by John Doe (bottom). Doe, who is writing an essay about the Trojan War, has therefore committed plagiarism by attempting to pass off the writing as his own without sourcing the original article.

  3. Bullet (typography) - Wikipedia

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    See also. other types of bullet symbols, listed below. In typography, a bulletor bullet point, •, is a typographical symbol or glyphused to introduce items in a list. For example: • Item 1. • Item 2. • Item 3. The bullet symbol may take any of a variety of shapes, such as circular, square, diamond or arrow.

  4. List of proofreader's marks - Wikipedia

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    This article is a list of standard proofreader's marks used to indicate and correct problems in a text. Marks come in two varieties, abbreviations and abstract symbols. These are usually handwritten on the paper containing the text. Symbols are interleaved in the text, while abbreviations may be placed in a margin with an arrow pointing to the ...

  5. FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence ...

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    Amazon, for example, sued over 10,000 Facebook group administrators in July 2022 for brokering fake reviews. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the FTC’s new rule ...

  6. Wikipedia:How articles are usually written - Wikipedia

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    How creating an article on Wikipedia is supposed to go[edit] 1) Summarize at least three professional sources that are completely independent of the subject but still specifically and primarily about that subject . 2) Expand using other professional sources (that may not be independent or may only discuss the subject in some larger context)

  7. Longest English sentence - Wikipedia

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    William Faulkner 's Absalom, Absalom! (1936) contains a sentence composed of 1,288 words (in the 1951 Random House version) [6] Jonathan Coe 's 2001 novel The Rotters' Club has a sentence with 13,955 words. [6] It was inspired by Bohumil Hrabal 's Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age: a Czech language novel written in one long sentence.

  8. Positive feedback - Wikipedia

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    Positive feedback occurs when a gene activates itself directly or indirectly via a double negative feedback loop. Genetic engineers have constructed and tested simple positive feedback networks in bacteria to demonstrate the concept of bistability. [28] A classic example of positive feedback is the lac operon in E. coli. Positive feedback plays ...

  9. Talk:Cut, copy, and paste - Wikipedia

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    I oppose the merge of 'Cut and Paste' (^x, ^v) with 'Copy and Paste' (^c, ^v) on the ground that 'Cut and Paste' (^x, ^v) clearly came first. After this usage was established, then 'Copy and Paste' (^c, ^v) made sense and entered common usage.