The attached may be of interest - an article of mine on footnotes published
in 1999...
James Hartley
School of Psychology
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG
UK
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From: "Russell Kent" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: The purpose of academic citation: a request for help
Dear Gavin,
I would argue that who you are governs the nature of the academic
enterprise. If you are a student who just wants to graduate and needs the
paper to do so, you will approach the task (enterprise) in the most
minimalistic of ways. Do as the professor says, have the paper with a
passing grade.
If you are a student with aspirations to carry on in the academic world,
Masters, Research or Phd, for example, then all of the examples given by
list members are valid.
What citation isn't, or shouldn't be, is a form of currency for repaying
other authors who have cited your own work. Increasingly, I get the feeling
this is the case when I read extensive bibliographies in books or research
papers. For me, references of works cited, not bibliographies are far more
relevant.
On a separate issue, what do list members think of footnotes. Personally, I
think they are extremely annoying and distracting. If the comment is not
worth putting in the actual text, why bother?
Regards,
Russ Kent
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From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing -
discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fairbairn, Gavin
Sent: 19 February 2010 01:58
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Subject: Re: The purpose of academic citation: a request for help
Dear Russ,
Thanks for writing. Actually I disagree, and in a way it is because I think
the purpose of academic citation does not depend on who or what you are, but
on the nature of the academic enterprise, that I circulated my request for
people to let me know what they think the purpose of academic citation is
and isn't, in the first place.
I'd be very very happy if you were willing to try encapsulating your views
in those two ways.
Thanks again.
Best wishes,
Gavin
Gavin J. Fairbairn
Professor of Ethics and Language
Leeds Metropolitan University
The Grange
Headingley Campus
Beckett Park
Leeds Met University
LS6 3QS
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From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing -
discussions on behalf of Russell Kent
Sent: Thu 18/02/2010 11:38
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Subject: Re: The purpose of academic citation: a request for help
Surely, the purpose of citation depends on whether you are a student or not.
If you are a student, then the purpose of citation is so the professor does
not fail your paper.
If you are not a student, then all the previous reasons are valid.
Cheers,
Russ Kent
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Hi,
This was one of the issues that I stuided during my PhD Dissertation,
within the framework of genre analysis. I am quoting a few paragraphs
from my dissertation below. I hope it will help you.
"Citations serve multiple purposes in scientific texts that contain unique
works such as research papers. These purposes include, but are not limited
to connecting new information to information that already exists in the
field, structuring of new information by the interaction of the writer and
reader, recognition of novelty of the information (Berkenkotter and
Huckin, 1995; Hyland, 1999), putting forth the attitude of the new
information towards the old (Charles, 2006). Citations, because of such
functions, are viewed as one of the founding components of academic texts.
In other words, citation is 'sine qua non' in the genre of scientific text
(Bazerman, 1988; Swales, 1990; Berkenkotter and Huckin, 1995; Hyland,
1999; 2000; Charles, 2006).
Using citations to refer to former texts in a new text, that is; to
'explicitly' put inter-text relationships into code (Fairclough 1992),
helps justify the new information in the practices of research society.
Therefore new information conveyed via a new text becomes dependent on
contextual information.
Explicit references to certain texts, which demonstrate how prior studies
are described and perceived, are accepted by many to be significant clues
as to how writers structure the information using this particular
communicative method in the course of academic communication. Writers in
search of a position in the field for their work and the information they
will present often resort to discourse-oriented functions such as
contextualising, starting field-based discussions and informativity. These
functions are coded in the surface structure of the text by the use of
citations. These discourse functions are in fact society and
information-oriented tools to implicate the existence of the writer in the
surface structure of the text."
<<Fidan, Özden (2008)GENRE ANALYSIS OF INTRODUCTION SECTIONS IN STUDENTS'
RESEARCH ARTICLES IN THE FIELD OF LINGUISTICS IN TURKEY, Unpublished
Doctoral Thesis>>
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> course. What I usually tell my students is that the purpose of academic
> citation is to avoid plagiarism and draw the line between the writer's
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> thanks for asking - I enjoyed thinking about this. I'm still usure how to
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> The purpose of academic citation is to make visible one's position within
> and relationship to a discourse, to draw on the energy of other people's
> work and reflect back, in its mirror, one's own contribution.
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> state, as simply as possible, the purpose of academic citation, I have
> been asking colleagues from a range of academic disciplines, for their
> views, which are surprisingly diverse. Then it occurred to me that it
> would be interesting to gather some views from EATAW members, to see
> whether their views are also varied. I would therefore, be grateful if you
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> From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing -
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> From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing -
> discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Zulfiqar Ahmed
> Qureshi
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> UK/European universities on such courses (in addition to the default
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