Comments on: Advice on making a book out of your dissertation http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/0020.html Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:09:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: EVC http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/0020.html#comment-124 EVC Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:46:19 +0000 http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2004/12/advice-on-making-a-book-out-of-your-dissertation/#comment-124 Excellent article. "Most dissertations are as dry as toast and not as tasty." Classic. Personally, I would like to change the referencing style to take out the mid-sentence citations (Smith, 2004). And, relatedly but not the same, why do we have to put place of publication in references? I mean, I think I'm well on my way to being a proper scholar, and I have never - not once - used the "place of publication" data for anything - to find anything, to search anything, to evaluate anything - it's like a little vestigial limb of the citation. Anita says it's because librarians want it there for reasons of their own. Excellent article. “Most dissertations are as dry as toast and not as tasty.” Classic.

Personally, I would like to change the referencing style to take out the mid-sentence citations (Smith, 2004). And, relatedly but not the same, why do we have to put place of publication in references? I mean, I think I’m well on my way to being a proper scholar, and I have never - not once - used the “place of publication” data for anything - to find anything, to search anything, to evaluate anything - it’s like a little vestigial limb of the citation.

Anita says it’s because librarians want it there for reasons of their own.

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