Peter
Are we going anywhere with this? It seems to me that any attempt
to
'discover' the 'true' meaning of 'list of references' and
'bibliography' is senseless. Personally, I can't see any reason why
we'd want students to list texts they ***claim*** to have read. But
we
surely do wish them to engage in the academic practice of citing
(indicating a source at the appropriate point in the text) and
providing full bibliographic details (references/ bibliography).
As for ***how*** these are presented, I do know that the
bibliographic management program EndNote can produce
bibliographic/ referencing outputs in over 1300 styles!
see
http://www.adeptscience.com/products/refman/endnote/new9.html
WriteNote, which is web-based and intended for student use, has
over 1000 output styles
see
http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/products/refman/writenote/features.h
tml
Talk about 'letting a thousand flowers bloom'!
These are the actual styles of real-live publications/ publishers,
although most are variations/ 'flavours' of Harvard (author/ date) or
Vancouver (numbered). They're not some never-published-teacher's
half-baked idea about what is 'the correct way'.
Personally, I can't understand why teaching staff in higher
education do not use one of the software packages for managing
their bibliographic work. At the very least, the free (yes!)
BiblioExpress package
(http://www.biblioscape.com/biblioexpress.htm)
which can output in the APA (American Psych Assoc), MLA
(Modern Language Assoc) and ACS (American Chemical Soc)
styles.
As for problems students seem to be having, well there is plenty of
guidance, not least the Online Writing Lab stuff
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/
But it still seems to me that it's more a problem that teaching staff
have **and create**, and better to be addressed as a training issue,
not a policy matter.
regards
Len
On 3 Feb 2006, at 14:48, Peter Wilson wrote:
> I attach the latest (developing) blast in my concerns about the
> dispute that will run and run...
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Wilson
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