Miniature review on the Theoretical Discussion of Citations

Some researchers or authors (e.g., Bavelas, 1978) agree that citations are the basic tool to persuade your reader to trust your researches. Because they can collect a lot of research papers or experiment evidences about their field study. However,others may not agree with that. The other researchers may just focus on their own research or believe what they saw in the whole studing period. In doing this way, the team has to spend a lot of time to build their own data base. It is a time consuming process. Most people will not pay too much attention on the basic thing before starting their research. Another basic idea about citations is that it is a way to show respect to previous scholars (e.g., Ravetzs, 1971). Take the Nobel prize for example, it is the best way to show other scholars or the world's people to show their respect to the most useful research or authors. Other researcher may focus on different aspects about academic writing.


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