{"id":1771,"date":"2012-03-04T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2012-03-04T16:47:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:47:40","slug":"scientific-citations-in-popular-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/04\/scientific-citations-in-popular-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Citations in Popular Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s the revised version. Rather than just including linked references [in that middle section as you suggested]<\/em>, I actually expanded that section so that it was clear who I was citing and what I was claiming they said.<\/p>\n

Citations work for science types but I want to learn (create? promote?) a new way of including references for popular literature in which, rather than saying something like, “Scientists think it’s OK to start sentences with a conjunction [Wolfram 2002].” I instead want to say things like, “In the foreword of his mammoth tome A New Kind of Science<\/em>, computer scientist Stephen Wolfram defends starting sentences with conjunctions, arguing forcefully that it makes long, complex arguments easier to read.” <\/p>\n

Yes, it’s longer, but it’s more honest, and the [cite] style was aimed at scientific papers with enormously compressed length requirements. Tell me what you think.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What do you think about the use of citations in non-scientific literature? I think we can do better. I’m just not sure what it is yet. Textbooks have generally solved this problem with “info boxes,” but that’s not always appropriate.<\/p>\n

-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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