Referencing your essays: The most boring task in the world!

[chilango]

*wanders off to buy indexcards*

 

[Leica]

it apparently had no first edition

What do you mean?

 

[laptop]

What do you mean?

I found full bibiographic details for a translation into English (in a small mag in New York, as I recall it); for a second Buenos Aires edition in the original, later than that; for a second translation; but no hint where the first edition had appeared.

It was a joke. For Borges readers.

 

[Leica]

Thanks... I only asked because I was curious about the story behind what you said. I like Borges.

 

[equationgirl]

I can't believe anyone actually likes referencing their essays. I hated it. You'd be so chuffed that you have finished an essay and think 'oh i've only got to do the bibliography' and it would take ages.

Totally hated it!

I'm like maestrocloud, I enjoy referencing and find it clears my head a bit. Plus there's something satisfying about sorting out your references - it's a relatively straightforward thing to do if you're not up to doing anything that require major amounts of thinking or if you're stuck on a complex problem doing references can help you work the problem out.

But then, I love books and reading and am working as a bibliographic assistant and part-time evening assistant in my uni library so I'm kind of quite good at the referencing stuff and find it easy.

And the point is, you DON'T leave the bibliography to the end, you keep notes on it as you go along, so the most work you'll have to do is typing in the details of a dozen or so references. If you're doing a larger project you absolutely have to do it as you go along else you'd never manage it.

 

[Zinedine*]

I'm like maestrocloud, I enjoy referencing and find it clears my head a bit. Plus there's something satisfying about sorting out your references - it's a relatively straightforward thing to do if you're not up to doing anything that require major amounts of thinking or if you're stuck on a complex problem doing references can help you work the problem out.

But then, I love books and reading and am working as a bibliographic assistant and part-time evening assistant in my uni library so I'm kind of quite good at the referencing stuff and find it easy.

And the point is, you DON'T leave the bibliography to the end, you keep notes on it as you go along, so the most work you'll have to do is typing in the details of a dozen or so references. If you're doing a larger project you absolutely have to do it as you go along else you'd never manage it.

I was terrible at uni! The only books I wanted to read, had little to do with the work I was doing. I always left essays to the last minute, I'd be up all night rushing and panicing like mad. Afterwards i would reference the books I was using, then check my shelves and course materal to see if there was anything else I could throw in. then I would sprint to the uni office to hand it in, usually about a minute before the deadline

 

[crimethInc]

the referencing within the text is completely different to end of essay reference


ie reference within the essay; As Pilger (2005 pp.456) observes ‘the failure of the international community to act whilst one million people…were slaughtered [was scandalous]’. He highlights the ....

and end of essay

Melvern, L. (2000) ‘A People Betrayed’, in Pilger, J. (2005, ed) Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and its Triumphs, London, Vintage, p. 433-464

^ that is how you reference???

that must make reading a fucking chore.

moi:

As Pilger observes ‘the failure of the international community to act whilst one million people…were slaughtered [was scandalous]’ (Pilger,2005: pp.456).

^ reads much nicer...