Also, for this “oh my god, and then I have to cite my sources!” I find that what makes life easier for me is to do in-place citations as I write (sometimes not completely correctly). That way, there is no “and then”, as I’ve done all the thinking about my cites as I was writing.
I did this in a rather haphazard way–saving my pdfs of articles under short descriptions, example ‘em. reg. overview’, and then putting that in brackets when I cited that article in my text, later to be replaced with the actual author’s name and date. Still kind of a pain.
An informative read, thank you.
Also, for this “oh my god, and then I have to cite my sources!” I find that what makes life easier for me is to do in-place citations as I write (sometimes not completely correctly). That way, there is no “and then”, as I’ve done all the thinking about my cites as I was writing.
I did this in a rather haphazard way–saving my pdfs of articles under short descriptions, example ‘em. reg. overview’, and then putting that in brackets when I cited that article in my text, later to be replaced with the actual author’s name and date. Still kind of a pain.
If you were going to do this regularly, it would be worth installing, and getting used to a tool like Zotero. If you’re not, it probably isn’t.
That actually looks useful for schoolwork, so I should probably get into the habit of using it for that reason.