On 14 May 2013 12:08, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 13 May 2013 14:39, Charles Matthews <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> >> The point about not citing encyclopedias is really old hat. Once you're >> in tertiary education you shouldn't cite tertiary sources? >> >> > May not be addressed depending on the field. Back when I was doing my > degree they just insisted that you cite journals so the issue of primary > secondary and tertiary (and to be fair significant chunks of wikipedia are > secondary rather than tertiary) didn't arise. > > > Sounds as if it did, though. Matthews's law from now on will state that if you are in the mth tier of education and cite nth level sources, m + n must not exceed five.
Charles
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