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From: "Chad R. Milliner" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] syllabus/handout bibliography
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:04:12 -0700
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Why not include it, but then annotate your bibliography with the type of
usability information you included in your e-mail message.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat at Continuity Press" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 7:58 AM
Subject: [APG] syllabus/handout bibliography


> In preparing the bibliography for a lecture handout, if there is a book
that
> has a good deal of information (genealogical, anecdotal, historical) that
is
> not in any other publication and the book is pertinent to the lecture
topic,
> would it be appropriate to include that book in the bibliography if the
> book, overall, does not meet the GPS? Here are some of the specific flaws:
>
> 1. no index
> 2. poor reference notes, i.e., unclear, incomplete
> 3. ambiguity
> 4. statements of opinion based on information that supports what the
author
> already believes but ignoring the information that conflicts with the
stated
> opinion; apparently written from the angle of, "Here is what I believe and
> here is what proves it." <shudder>
> 5. poorly styled without standard publishing format or design coupled with
> poor writing skills and poor editing.
> 6. poor reasoning; conclusions often reached without enough evidence
>
>
> I know it sounds like this book should be thrown out the window <G>, but
it
> does have a lot of viable information that isn't available elsewhere, or
at
> least not easily found and retrieved. In addition, I am a friend of the
> author and I will be in the position of being asked, "Why didn't you
include
> my book in your stinky old bibliography?"
>
> I am in a push-pull situation about including it in a bibliography for a
> lecture. All advice will be considered and appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pat
>
>
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