Question

What is one main characteristic of secondary sources intended for academics and students?

Answer 1

To be a responsible scholar by giving credit to other researchers and acknowledging their ideas. To avoid plagiarism by quoting words and ideas used by other authors. To allow your reader to track down the sources you used by citing them accurately in your paper by way of footnotes, a bibliography or reference lis

Answer 2

They include a bibliography and citations to credit the sources.

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