Sandbox discussion page: Best venue for small article-specific questions to accumulate?

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Dr. Lucas,

Is my sandbox discussion page the best place to put small, article-specific questions as they come up? Should I collect these for a set period of time until you check in with each student?

Thanks,
Sherrill

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Sure, you can do that, or post them here. If you’re just taking notes, you can keep those on your local machine. No one will really see the talk page for your sandbox.

Feel free to ask questions here as they come up.

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Dr. Lucas,

Thanks. I hate to pepper you with a bunch of individual questions, so I will group them since I’m at a stopping point. My draft is here. Here are the questions I have so far:

  1. How do I format epigraphs? In the original PDF, they look indented from both sides. Also, was it correct for me to use shortened footnotes here?
  2. What level of heading should subheadings be within the article? Was it correct for me to use third-order headings?
  3. How can I format the Project Muse or Literature Online portions of journal article citations? All of the ways I have tried to use existing fields (incl. date accessed) have returned errors. Examples include Buske, Lewis, Stolzfus, and Stoneback. My draft currently omits that information.
  4. How do I handle (a) citation(s) that appear(s) to have been omitted in the original PDF? The PDF references T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922) at the bottom of p.332, but I see no citation for it. I created a draft citation but I have no way to know if my information is correct. Also, later, on p. 340, the PDF references T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets (1943) but I do not see a citation for that either. I have not yet written a draft for it.
  5. How do I address the fact that no citations at all exist for the works listed in Endnote 4?
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There are several ways. I recommend you use another, finished article as a guide. For example, see my article “Norman Mailer and the Novel 2.0”; click the edit tab to examine the code. This should answer your next question, too.

Do these like they were in paper journals. If the article is behind a paywall, don’t link to it. We can’t support that capitalist nonsense. :wink: If you get errors, save it in your sandbox, and send me the link to have a look.

Those texts are pretty ubiquitous. Don’t worry about specific citations. This is the same for your next question: most of the texts there are well known.

Did I miss anything?

:peace_symbol:

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These citations sort of have two parts: (1) The paper journal part, which I retained, and (2) The Project Muse/Literature Online electronic access part, which I omitted. The closest analogue field in the Journal template was the Date Accessed field, which returned an error each way I tried to use it.

I guess my real question is: Do I need the second part? The first part is a full citation on its own.

Thanks,
Sherrill

P.S. Thank you for the epigraph formatting help. I had spot-checked some other articles to try to find an example but did not succeed. I think I’ve got it now.

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The access-date is only needed if you use a URL. If not, omit it.

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