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  2. Daniel Martin (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Dan Martin is a playwright and Hollywood screenwriter who returns to his native England when a friend from his time at university asks to see him before he dies. With flashbacks to his childhood in the 1940s and his Oxford undergraduate days, a tale of frustrated love emerges. The dying man, Anthony, asks Daniel to look after Anthony's wife Jane.

  3. Scientific journal - Wikipedia

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    Cover of the first issue of Nature (4 November 1869) In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication designed to further the progress of science by disseminating new research findings to the scientific community. [1] These journals serve as a platform for researchers, scholars, and scientists to share their latest ...

  4. Academic journal - Wikipedia

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    An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and discussion of research. They nearly universally require peer review for research articles or other scrutiny from ...

  5. APA style - Wikipedia

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    APA style (also known as APA format) is a writing style and format for academic documents such as scholarly journal articles and books. It is commonly used for citing sources within the field of behavioral and social sciences , including sociology, education, nursing, criminal justice, anthropology, and psychology.

  6. Impact factor - Wikipedia

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    The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science. As a journal-level metric, it is frequently used as a proxy for ...

  7. Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. [1] Keith and Lundburg describe a trope as "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". [2] The word trope has also undergone a semantic change and now also describes commonly ...

  8. Don Quixote - Wikipedia

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    Don Quixote, [a][b] the full title being The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, [c] is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615. Considered a founding work of Western literature, it is often labelled as the first modern novel. [2][3] Don Quixote is also one of the most ...

  9. Billy Joel breaks down his 'Piano Man' lyrics about 'real ...

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    Billy Joel talks about his life, career and what's in store for the future during a candid "Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist" on July 14. In the song’s third verse, listeners meet Paul, a ...