{"id":852,"date":"2015-06-03T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=852"},"modified":"2015-06-03T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T11:39:49","slug":"do-not-make-vague-attributions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/writing-in-english\/concision\/do-not-make-vague-attributions\/","title":{"rendered":"Do not make vague attributions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authors often try to justify their statements by suggesting they have acquired the information from an authoritative source. If you wish to refer to a source, however, do not do so vaguely as in the following example. A straightforward statement is preferable to a vague attribution. Therefore, not<\/p>\n

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\"ExclamationPoint\"<\/td>\nStudent registrations have been observed to be increasing in some subjects that were previously determined to be unfashionable.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

but<\/p>\n

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\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nStudent registrations have been increasing in some previously unfashionable subjects.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

and not<\/p>\n

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\"ExclamationPoint\"<\/td>\nIt has been shown that visiting lecturers have been using this new resource.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

but<\/p>\n

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\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nVisiting lecturers have been using this new resource.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

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Authors often try to justify their statements by suggesting they have acquired the information from an authoritative source. If you wish to refer to a source, however, do not do so vaguely as in the following example. A straightforward statement is preferable to a vague attribution. Therefore, not Student registrations have been observed to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":825,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-852","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/852\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}