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Foot Notes – why bother?

Foot Notes – why bother?. Ian Gent March 1, 2001. Map of Talk. What are Foot Notes? Some History and Statistics Why bother?. What are Footnotes?. easiest introduction is to show you the archive but Footnotes are not reviewed distributed cited good correct ….

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Foot Notes – why bother?

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  1. Foot Notes – why bother? Ian Gent March 1, 2001

  2. Map of Talk • What are Foot Notes? • Some History and Statistics • Why bother?

  3. What are Footnotes? • easiest introduction is to show you the archive • but Footnotes are not • reviewed • distributed • cited • good • correct • …

  4. History & Statistics • Idea stolen from ‘Blue Book Notes’ • from MRG in Edinburgh, Alan Bundy • Foot Notes started in Jan, 1995 • physical folders in Strathclyde, Leeds • Electronic archive replaced folders • Perl scripts by Dave Clark, Ian Gent • As of Feb 27, there are 597 Foot Notes • just under 2 a week over 6 years

  5. What happens if you spend too much time in Excel

  6. Some reasons to bother • Don’t lose unfinished work • steps towards papers • Don’t lose finished work • journal papers have come out of old notes • Document work in progress • e.g. recent notes by Evgeny • Circulate half baked ideas for discussion • trust in fellow APES vital

  7. Three real reasons to bother • The APES Audit • review at APES meetings by Ian & Toby • discusses every footnote since the last meeting • except notes forming part of submitted papers • discussion mainly about unpublished ideas • It makes you think about half formed ideas • It helps keeps APES together

  8. Any drawbacks? • You can be satisfied with limited circulation • “I’ve written a note about it” • Can be a “Write Only Medium” ? • e.g. were there too many notes in June 99? • 500+ history intimidating to new APES? • not many notes have introductory sections • Dangerous for PhD students? • lots of good notes don’t always make a PhD

  9. Should Christian and Muffy bother? • I think so! • Steal our Perl scripts! • Don’t take my word for it … • Patrick put his views in ‘The APES 500’ • as a footnote of course!

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