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14253591 No.14253591 [Reply] [Original]

is 22 sources in an 6 page paper too little or too much?

>> No.14253604

Just right for America, but too much for Europe.

>> No.14253614

Euro here
Back in uni I'd get straight As on 8-15 page papers using as little as 3-4 sources. Quoting tons of unrelated articles turns your paper into a concept salad.

>> No.14253680

>>14253604
>>14253614
It's mostly just statistics I'm citing. Barely any quotes.

>> No.14253692

>>14253591
what kinda paper is it?

>> No.14253712

In the sciences it looks good if you're trying to make a point but don't feel like summarizing because you have 6 sources in a row to support it. My final had 30 sources in 15 pages and most of that was taken up by procedure and results tables.

>> No.14253764

I actually graded a bunch of 5-7 page papers recently, and still, all I can really say is that it depends completely on the paper and the discipline. A few people got great grades for doing very close readings of just two texts, a few people got great grades because they did actual research and had a bunch of actually relevant and interesting citations, and then there was a whole lot of in between. And that's within one discipline. For all I know, social psychologists would get a hard-on if you cited 250 things per page.

It used to be popular in my field to include exhaustive bibliographies in the footnotes for every goddamn thing you talk about, so that the first 2-3 pages of any article was a solid wall of footnotes. But I think that's frowned upon now.

>> No.14254261

>>14253712
It's a generic English paper I have to do for a uni class. Nothing scientific, though my paper is data heavy due to the topic.

I got As on my other 3 papers (which I'm assuming count as 100%), so I think I just need a 70% or above. That should be easy, considering I don't write like a complete retard.

>> No.14255125

>>14253692
"research paper" about why the death penalty should be abolished. Most of the citations are from court cases or official government statistics.

>> No.14255164

>>14255125
most of your citations should be pretty distinct one-offs then. if that's the case, you're probably fine at that number. I'd otherwise say it's overkill for a paper of that size.