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Quick essay writing question:
In a bibliography for an essay, do you only put in books that you have mentioned in your footnotes (ie one's you've quoted from or used ideas directly from), or do you also include books you've read on the subject but haven't used directly?
I always used to put in books that I read, but didn't use, just to show I'd done some wider reading, but now some of my friends have said that was wrong. Just wondering what everyone here thinks.
Thanks.
In a bibliography for an essay, do you only put in books that you have mentioned in your footnotes (ie one's you've quoted from or used ideas directly from), or do you also include books you've read on the subject but haven't used directly?
I always used to put in books that I read, but didn't use, just to show I'd done some wider reading, but now some of my friends have said that was wrong. Just wondering what everyone here thinks.
Thanks.
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It's up to what your course organiser thinks. Ours has changed in the last year. It used to be all the books you'd read, but now it's just the ones you've quoted. So my biblio is 4 books instead about 10. Makes me look like I tried less! Boo!
Ours used to be like that but now we can add in books we have just read from and not just quoted directly from, it makes me look like I've tried harder
Though I just look at refrences included in the books I've read and throw a few of them in
I also didn't put in the Ladybird book on Robert the Bruce which I read when doing my essay on the Medieval Warfare, because I thought the lecturer might have a sense of humour failure
Nah, we're not allowed to. Our biblio is only to be things that we have quoted in our essays. Gash.
Whoops!
Uni is so confusing, and it's eating my brain at the moment...