Glossary of Terms

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Paraphrasing:

A restatement of a text or passage in another form or other words, often to clarify meaning.



Password:

UWS student/staff password for off campus access is their Library barcode.



Peer-reviewed Journal:

In scholarly journals, articles must be submitted for evaluation by the editor and a subject specialist or an editorial panel before they are selected for publication. This helps ensure that the article will be of a particular academic standard. Refereed is another term that is frequently used to mean peer reviewed.



Periodical:

A publication issued in successive individual parts at regular or irregular intervals with no foreseeable end, for example, journal, magazines or newspapers. Also known as serials. See also journals.



PIN - Personal Identification Number:

UWS students and staff need to allocate a PIN for all printing and photocopying in the Library.



Plagiarism:

Using the ideas or work of others without acknowledging the source.



Primary sources:

Primary information sources are original materials, documented and reported on around the time of an event and used as a basis for further study and analysis. A primary information source is often the record of an individual observing or participating in the event. For example:: novels, memos, manuscripts, records (eg:: births, deaths and marriages), poems, interviews, diaries, court records, photographs, surveys, speeches, autobiographies, music, art, buildings, patents, etc.