bibliographies: the new prettiness-based strategy

[cimorene]

today there was an optional lecture on how to write academic essays, which i went to in the interest of a) seeing what sldl will be looking for and b) finding out if there were some things swedish-speaking people do completely differently (there are:  citations.  their method is to only kind of have any sort of method at all.  "you can use parentheses around the year, or without the parentheses and use a period instead, and you can write the name out or abbreviate it, and sometimes it says 'editor' after the name of the editor...").  (but that's another post.)

so in my notes i've written:

did he just say you should find your own sources because the bibliography looks prettier if there's more than one book on it?

--which, in fact, i'm pretty sure he did say.  um.

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[perhael.livejournal.com]

♥

[cimness.livejournal.com]

was that a heart that got eaten?

[perhael.livejournal.com]

sonuvabitch ate my heart! oh well, yes it was :D

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

I HEART THIS POLL IMMENSELY.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

it has a kind of gestalt of fun or something, now you mention it...

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I'm in the middle of a remarkably similar experience, trying to finish the citations for a history paper and going, "And under the Irish system they do WHAT?" A lot. With frequent wide-eyed blinking. But ANYWAY...this post just made me feel so much better about it. Because now I know that even if my bibliography is incorrect, it's still pretty!

[cimness.livejournal.com]

the guy actually stood up there and TOLD us that you can put the year of publication in parentheses without punctuation OR without parentheses and followed by a period and it didn't make any difference, "as long as you're consistent".

what is this? new math? do we get points for TRYING?

have these people heard of a style book?

my eyes were trying to roll out of my head.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I was given two handouts to work with and they contradict each other! So if anyone ever asks why I take such frequent LJ breaks? This, this is why! Because otherwise I will go INSANE.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

okay, you win. contradiction is worse than wishy-washiness.

try this on for size: a book that actually takes time out in the introduction to tell you that there's a list of works cited at the end of the book. that's two seconds of my life spent reading that sentence that i can never get back!

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

Once when I was in Chicago I saw the most awesome boots EVAR in a shop window. They were covered in monster fur and had scary muppety faces on the toes.

I'm waiting for THAT to come in style.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

when i was shopping for my winter boots there were some that were probably very similar, but without the faces. they were like moonboots covered in loooong black and green shag carpeting!

but i'm with you, the faces are better. when that becomes trendy fashion will finally have Arrived.

[pickledixy.livejournal.com]

You need to start slashing them, I need stuff to read. :P