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[batman]

have you ever had to write an essay with extensive footnotes?

my professor for my art humanities class basically said "make sure you add a lot of footnotes!" without elaborating on what exactly she wants in the footnotes. i'm not exactly sure how i should go about doing this.

all the "how to write footnotes" websites i look at tell me it's pretty much just an in-text citation with the reference at the bottom of each page, but all the art articles i read usually include some type of brief description or blurb about the article/reference/etc in their footnotes.

do u know 'bout dis?

[hi-C]

Jeez. What style? Chicago? I'd ask her though =\

[batman]

THERE ARE STYLES???

man, i never had to write footnotes before. i remember asking her how she wanted the footnotes and she said "just write a lot of them."

just like when i asked her how long this paper had to be (i heard 8, 10, 12, and 17), she said "just write as much as you think you need!"

[Insurmountable]

Oh god I wouldn't be able to have a teacher like that >_> If someone wants something done then they need to be direct and get straight to the point, don't ask me to just assume something. Then I'll be wrong more than likely

I would say that you its just more information than what is needed and that you wouldn't typically include in the actual paper *shrug, but of course it depends on what the paper is, if you have a lot of things that you took things from then the footnotes would be the references that you received them from and stuff.

I've only had to write like 3-5 papers that required footnotes and of course they weren't a big deal to the teacher, they just wanted them.

Good luck, as Carrie said though go ask her.

[hi-C]

THERE ARE STYLES???

man, i never had to write footnotes before. i remember asking her how she wanted the footnotes and she said "just write a lot of them."

just like when i asked her how long this paper had to be (i heard 8, 10, 12, and 17), she said "just write as much as you think you need!"

In what style do you have to write your bibliography/works cited? That'll generally help you out with what to include in your footnotes.

And yeah, I've had to do that before, write a paper with footnotes when I didn't have too much experience. Coming from an English major using MLA (since you do in-text citations with those, you don't need footnotes) to having to use Chicago for a couple of Africana Studies courses, it was frustrating. But footnotes are awesome because they make your papers look longer than they actually are

I hate professors who tell you to write how much you think you need. It's so aggravating! It's like, tell me what you want (what you really really want), don't be so damn vague. But hey, I at least got to write a 3 pager for a final paper once.

[batman]

Yeah, I'm switching between MLA, APA, and I have no clue what style she wanted for a bibliography, so I just emailed someone else from my class - maybe I zoned out the day she was talking about all this.