Yeah, that critique is part of why “use more links” is among my least confident advice of the stuff in this post. I like links mostly as an alternative to nothing—if there’s a term of background that ideally your readers should already know, a link is an economical way to give readers below your target audience in background knowledge a leg up. But for really central terms, yeah, better to summarize in your own words.
Yeah, that critique is part of why “use more links” is among my least confident advice of the stuff in this post. I like links mostly as an alternative to nothing—if there’s a term of background that ideally your readers should already know, a link is an economical way to give readers below your target audience in background knowledge a leg up. But for really central terms, yeah, better to summarize in your own words.
I find footnotes superior for that sort of thing.