Comments on: More Collins brothers Radio Interviews http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639 Anti-Theory Conspiracy Sun, 26 May 2013 03:22:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Phillip D. Collins http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4844 Phillip D. Collins Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:28:23 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4844 Thank you so much, Terry! That was always our goal! Thank you so much, Terry! That was always our goal!

]]> By: Terry Melanson http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4820 Terry Melanson Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:06:21 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4820 The main thing is that you guys cite judiciously. Transparency in research is paramount. And if everyone were as consistent as you guys - with as much integrity, precision, and accuracy - then the term "conspiracy theory" would be uttered far less frequently - if at all. The main thing is that you guys cite judiciously. Transparency in research is paramount. And if everyone were as consistent as you guys - with as much integrity, precision, and accuracy - then the term “conspiracy theory” would be uttered far less frequently - if at all.

]]> By: Phillip D. Collins http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4819 Phillip D. Collins Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:41:53 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4819 Thanks, Terry! Truth be told, I am actually so sick of the "no pagination" method that I am abandoning it entirely. "Ibid" is fairly unambiguous, so I'll stick with that. And, to the readers that were confused by the method, you all will be relieved that I'm no longer using it. But, understand, I was just following the MLA guidelines. I appreciate your consternation over the method, but please direct all of your complaints to the Modern Language Association. I didn't invent the system. If I had, I would have adhered to the criterion of K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple, stupid). Unfortunately, the MLA is not so pragmatic about research methods. Thanks, Terry!

Truth be told, I am actually so sick of the “no pagination” method that I am abandoning it entirely. “Ibid” is fairly unambiguous, so I’ll stick with that.

And, to the readers that were confused by the method, you all will be relieved that I’m no longer using it. But, understand, I was just following the MLA guidelines. I appreciate your consternation over the method, but please direct all of your complaints to the Modern Language Association.

I didn’t invent the system. If I had, I would have adhered to the criterion of K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple, stupid). Unfortunately, the MLA is not so pragmatic about research methods.

]]> By: Terry Melanson http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4816 Terry Melanson Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:25:43 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4816 Phil, Here's something from <a href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/15/" rel="nofollow">MLA Update 2009</a> --- Online-only Publication For articles that appear in an online-only format or in databases that do not provide a page number, use the abbreviation n. pag. for no pagination. End the citation with the medium of publication, Web, and the date of access. Kessl, Fabian and Nadia Kutsche. “Rationalities, Practices, and Resistance in Post-Welfarism. A Comment on Kevin Stenson.” Social Work & Society 6.1 (2008): n. pag. Web. 10 Oct. 2008. --- It would appear that "no pagination" is used once, in the citation only (rather than continuously repeated in-text). Phil,

Here’s something from MLA Update 2009

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Online-only Publication

For articles that appear in an online-only format or in databases that do not provide a page number, use the abbreviation n. pag. for no pagination. End the citation with the medium of publication, Web, and the date of access.

Kessl, Fabian and Nadia Kutsche. “Rationalities, Practices, and Resistance in Post-Welfarism. A Comment on Kevin Stenson.” Social Work & Society 6.1 (2008): n. pag. Web. 10 Oct. 2008.
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It would appear that “no pagination” is used once, in the citation only (rather than continuously repeated in-text).

]]> By: Phillip D. Collins http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4814 Phillip D. Collins Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:04:51 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4814 The "no pagination" method of citing Internet sources is part of the standard MLA citing system, which changes every year. I don't know if it is still part of the MLA system, but it was the only available means for Paul and I when we were writing the articles. As Terry previously mentioned, we are no longer using it. I am going to check out a new edition of the MLA Handbook and see if a new method for Internet sources has been developed. The “no pagination” method of citing Internet sources is part of the standard MLA citing system, which changes every year. I don’t know if it is still part of the MLA system, but it was the only available means for Paul and I when we were writing the articles. As Terry previously mentioned, we are no longer using it. I am going to check out a new edition of the MLA Handbook and see if a new method for Internet sources has been developed.

]]> By: Terry Melanson http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4806 Terry Melanson Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:06:39 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4806 It's a standard way of doing it in scholarly papers. Instead of cumbersome end notes, they cite the sources right in the text (and at the end they give the full source in the biblio): i.e. (Hopsicker 377), and at the end - Hopsicker, Daniel. Barry and the Boys: The CIA, the Mob and America's Secret History. 2001. Florida: Mad Cow Press, 2006. It's problematic for internet sources, because of no page numbers. After many emails asking what is "no pagination" and that it gets in the way of the flow - which it does - they finally acquiesced and have dispensed with it. If a source has no page number and it was cited as the last source, they just put "ibid" now. Check out the last three or four <a href="http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Articles/index.php?n=54" rel="nofollow">articles they wrote</a> to see what I mean. It’s a standard way of doing it in scholarly papers. Instead of cumbersome end notes, they cite the sources right in the text (and at the end they give the full source in the biblio): i.e. (Hopsicker 377), and at the end - Hopsicker, Daniel. Barry and the Boys: The CIA, the Mob and America’s Secret History. 2001. Florida: Mad Cow Press, 2006.

It’s problematic for internet sources, because of no page numbers. After many emails asking what is “no pagination” and that it gets in the way of the flow - which it does - they finally acquiesced and have dispensed with it. If a source has no page number and it was cited as the last source, they just put “ibid” now.

Check out the last three or four articles they wrote to see what I mean.

]]> By: Phyllis Robinson http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4804 Phyllis Robinson Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:00:40 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4804 So, why don't they just say that???? So, why don’t they just say that????

]]> By: Terry Melanson http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4796 Terry Melanson Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:01:14 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4796 A citation that is an internet source. If it was a book, they would cite the exact page number; but since it is not a book - there is "no pagination." Tada! A citation that is an internet source. If it was a book, they would cite the exact page number; but since it is not a book - there is “no pagination.”

Tada!

]]> By: Bob van Wyk http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4795 Bob van Wyk Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:31:58 +0000 http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/Blog/?p=1639#comment-4795 For gos's sake what is meant by "no pagination" Will somebody please tell me! For gos’s sake what is meant by “no pagination” Will somebody please tell me!

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