/lit/ - Literature

>>22745675

>>20329928

Here's another good one, it's a citation in a mathematics article.

teddy bear

>>14883534
kek

>>14842009
This

Citations are the hyperlinks of old media. They are there to point scholars to sources that discuss the topic in more detail, so you can stay on topic and avoid repeating yourself. If your thesis is subjective, you don't need to do this as much; in fact, too much makes you look like an ass-kisser. But there's no way around it If you're writing about a real-world topic like science or history.

The biggest sinners are:

1. Crappy scientists who pad out their publications with references to pretend that they actually did research

2. People like DFW and Garrison Keillor who write multi-page footnotes because they're too lazy to edit

3. Writers that forget to add references to genuinely interesting stuff. Conspiracy theorists do this a lot because they are usually untrained writers trying to discuss a complex topic.

>>13952386
>I know that I'll never be able to use him in any kind of academic writing

Smuggle arcane allusions into your footnotes.

>>10764906
Hitler isn't really known for his rhetoric anymore, he's more famous for other things.

He was actually more /sci/. Pretty sure he was the youngest person to ever teach at Berkeley at the time, or maybe just the youngest to teach math.