Holding myself accountable by recording my progress with Kathleen Spracklen's YouTube course. First post: The front sides of my bibliography (bib) cards ...
Thank you! Seeing the author and date (instead of a nickname) is important to me because seeing those elements will give me context for the main card work I know is to come in later lessons.
This is something I know about myself from having other “knowledge development” systems: I may be quoting or responding to something I don’t agree with myself, but for the sake of a character or realistic setting, I’m acting as if it is true. So a reference of “Jerome, 1889” might be a contemporary reference for my storyworld, but a “Goodman, 2003” tells me the reference is a historian’s perspective.
Just to record the comment I added to the conversation at LiLLiPub (https://lillipub.org) about my different way of naming bib cards.
My convention is "Author, date." If for some reason there are duplicate dates, I number them alphabetically by the title of the work.
The reasons:
1. The author's surname is very important because I reference many of the same authors and writers over and over again.
Because I know I will start to build "collections" of certain writers, content creators, etc. in my bib box, I wanted to make sure their bib cards will naturally collect in the same location and in an order that shows the progression of their thoughts.
For example, my bib box now has a Spracklen section. The advanced video you released this morning now has a bib card named "Spracklen, 2024-10-19". It falls right in line behind all the others I made this week. This way as I work my way backwards through your content, I can keep track of the order of your videos since there is a natural cumulative "conversation" in the content you release. It's important to me that if I check out a video you made six months ago, it's not falling in with content you just created.
2. The year is very important to the context of the card.
For example, if I have a quote about "mental science" with a reference to "Jetmore Reveille, 1890," my brain will activate the "radioactive hubris!" alert that this thing might be something that my characters might accept as fact in 1890, but we would never accept today.
But if I see a quote about "mental science" with a reference to Durvasula, 2024, that tells me I'm dealing with more modern understanding of psychology and the term represents a current understanding.
I love it. I especially enjoy seeing your choice of a bib card naming convention.
Thank you! Seeing the author and date (instead of a nickname) is important to me because seeing those elements will give me context for the main card work I know is to come in later lessons.
This is something I know about myself from having other “knowledge development” systems: I may be quoting or responding to something I don’t agree with myself, but for the sake of a character or realistic setting, I’m acting as if it is true. So a reference of “Jerome, 1889” might be a contemporary reference for my storyworld, but a “Goodman, 2003” tells me the reference is a historian’s perspective.
I like it!
Just to record the comment I added to the conversation at LiLLiPub (https://lillipub.org) about my different way of naming bib cards.
My convention is "Author, date." If for some reason there are duplicate dates, I number them alphabetically by the title of the work.
The reasons:
1. The author's surname is very important because I reference many of the same authors and writers over and over again.
Because I know I will start to build "collections" of certain writers, content creators, etc. in my bib box, I wanted to make sure their bib cards will naturally collect in the same location and in an order that shows the progression of their thoughts.
For example, my bib box now has a Spracklen section. The advanced video you released this morning now has a bib card named "Spracklen, 2024-10-19". It falls right in line behind all the others I made this week. This way as I work my way backwards through your content, I can keep track of the order of your videos since there is a natural cumulative "conversation" in the content you release. It's important to me that if I check out a video you made six months ago, it's not falling in with content you just created.
2. The year is very important to the context of the card.
For example, if I have a quote about "mental science" with a reference to "Jetmore Reveille, 1890," my brain will activate the "radioactive hubris!" alert that this thing might be something that my characters might accept as fact in 1890, but we would never accept today.
But if I see a quote about "mental science" with a reference to Durvasula, 2024, that tells me I'm dealing with more modern understanding of psychology and the term represents a current understanding.