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Why do we have to do referencing? I don't see the point
What would you rather be doing?
playing on the Internet
Do you stay on one page all the time? Of course not
Then, how do you move around? click on the links
Do you know what the HTML for a link is?
yes
it's
H r e f and then the address ... and what does H r e f stand for?
don't know
"H" is hypertext and "ref" is reference
you couldn't do your favourite activity without using references ...Yes, but it's so much
easier to make a link, you just copy and paste the address
one piece of information only
not author, date, title, place of publication, publisher, and page number
How do you know whether a link is worth clicking on?
well lots of things
like some bloggers are really interesting
and some gamers are awesome and show you how to win ... so the author is important?
sometimes
and sometimes good authors get together and run an interesting site ... so
the site publisher is important?
sometimes
and sometimes you can tell what's good by where they come from
like the best anime sites are Japanese and the best K pop ones
are Korean
So the place of publication is important?
sometimes
but what's really important is new stuff
I want to know what's happening now
so the date is important?
sometimes
but sometimes I need background information
like if there's a game based on the movie
an older page on the movie's okay
so if you find a page, say on anime
by a Japanese person writing for Japanese anime site with a news section
will you read all of the news?
no I'm not interested in all of it
I look at the titles and click on the good ones ... so the title is important?
yes
I see what you're doing, all of the referencing stuff is like weblinks
yes but for paper
but on the web, I don't need all of the information
I know it already or I can work it out
think of the newbies
they are new to the topic, they don't have the background, referencing is easier
for newbies; they don't have to work things out
the reference contains the information they need
and in academic subjects, as a student, you are a newbie
but when you're writing references
it takes so long ... writing links on the web page takes time
but if you want to attract readers, you need to show them that the links
lead to pages they will like
it makes the site cool
referencing is cool??
you're kidding me
well if a site links to rubbish, is it a cool site?
no
but, what about the contents?
content is what you get by following links
the value of the network depends on the number of links
think of a fishing nets
the more knots a net has, the smaller the holes and the more fish you
catch
talking about fish and Japanese
I'm hungry
Let's go and get some sashimi
to use referencing language
I, as the author, will
publish your reference on my social network
with the place, title of the restaurant, date and links to some reviews
and then our friends will see it's cool
and come and eat with us!