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Matthew @ 12:59, November 7, 2005 to Miscellaneous | Comments (8)


Comments:

Mr E

It is standard practice when talking about academic books to refer to a book by the author’s name, e.g. “in Stuart and Tall, p. 67…”. The title would be given in the appendix.

There must be dozens of books called Physics, even out of those published by OUP.

Comment added at 15:50, November 7, 2005

Mr E

For “appendix” read “bibliography”.

Comment added at 15:50, November 7, 2005

Rory

Mr E, Matthew’s not an academic. And it would just be a hassle if his blog had an appendix.

Comment added at 16:53, November 7, 2005

Mr E

My point was that referring to the book “Physics” is not helpful. There must be dozens of books with this title. He could have written: Physics (Smith and Jones) or something.

Comment added at 17:49, November 7, 2005

Matthew

…especially as I actually misremembered the title. It’s Advanced Physics, the only one of its kind from OUP. I remembered that it was the only book with its title, then forgot the title…

Comment added at 08:31, November 8, 2005

Owen

Think i had a flick through that in the library (where i’m guessing you saw it too) for physics revision. Thought it was pretty good.

Comment added at 13:51, November 8, 2005

Rory

There are many books with the title Historical Linguistics. I one day intend to write the parody, Hysterical Linguistics.

Comment added at 01:15, November 9, 2005

Matthew

Find a university that will accept it as a PhD thesis and you’re sorted, really.

Owen: I actually managed to find it on Amazon. At the time I bought it it was the only A level physics text book with only positive reviews.

Comment added at 08:06, November 9, 2005

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