HELP AN :XMAS: OUT Options

[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?

[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.