Dear fellow footnote readers:
That celebrated scholar of the footnote, Anthony Grafton, wrote:
“Devisedto give texts authority, footnotes in fact undermine. They democratizescholarly writing… The reader hears, and even takes part in, a conversation, with the author andthe author’s witnesses alike — a conversation more intense, more critical, andmore suggestive than the reading of a bare text can ever be.”
Grafton,A. (1997). The Death of the Footnote (Report on an Exaggeration). The Wilson Quarterly 21(1), page 77.
Heidi
From: Paul Mike Zender <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: How to Search
Gunnar and Ken:
I chime in only because sometimes simple and short advice is both easy to overlook and the most important at the same time.
Looking up and reading key footnotes (references if the style is to put them at the end with in-line citations) is essential, joyful, and something you never 'outgrow.' I do it all the time. It's fun, like being a detective. Sometimes I encounter old friends as well as meeting new ones.
For example...
While working on a book about icons this fall I looked up a reference by a new author (to me), Paul Kolers, who wrote "Some Formal Characteristics of Pictograms" in 1969 in American Scientist. He was a celebrated scientist that until then I was unfamiliar with (shame on me). With a bit more digging I learned that Paul had co-authored a book with Merald Worlstad, founding editor of Visible Language, the journal I edit. That's what I mean by making new friends and encountering old ones, which to me, is great fun, one of the best parts of scholarship.
Enjoy...
Mike Zender
University of Cincinnati
Visible Language
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