Notes on Book Notes
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| - | * To create a Book Note, you much have an account at Science Besieged. If you don't have an account, request | + | * To create a Book Note, you much have an account at Science Besieged. If you don't have an account, request one via the [[Special:CommentForm|Comment Form]]. |
* Book Note pages have titles made up of | * Book Note pages have titles made up of | ||
# the author's last name; | # the author's last name; | ||
# a colon; and | # a colon; and | ||
| - | # the book's title | + | # the book's title (if the book has a subtitle, use just the main title for the page name) |
: The colon follows the author's name without a space, but is itself followed by a space. Every word in the title begins with a capital letter. Recall: when typing the page name as a URL, use the underscore "_" in place of the space " ". | : The colon follows the author's name without a space, but is itself followed by a space. Every word in the title begins with a capital letter. Recall: when typing the page name as a URL, use the underscore "_" in place of the space " ". | ||
Revision as of 22:25, 9 July 2006
- To create a Book Note, you much have an account at Science Besieged. If you don't have an account, request one via the Comment Form.
- Book Note pages have titles made up of
- the author's last name;
- a colon; and
- the book's title (if the book has a subtitle, use just the main title for the page name)
- The colon follows the author's name without a space, but is itself followed by a space. Every word in the title begins with a capital letter. Recall: when typing the page name as a URL, use the underscore "_" in place of the space " ".
- To create the empty Book Note page, type its URL into your browser's location window:
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http://ArsHermeneutica.org/besieged/Lastname:_Title_Capitalized
- Every Book Note has these four parts:
- A filled-in ratings template;
- The book citation;
- Notes on the book; and
- A category template.
- In the editing window, those elements look like this (using Sacks: Uncle Tungsten as an example):
{{BNR-table|scienticity=5|readability=5|hermeneutics=5|charisma=5|recommendation=5}}
Oliver W. Sacks, ''Uncle Tungsten : Memories of a Chemical Boyhood''.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. viii + 337 pages.
Oliver Sacks is a neurosurgeon and writer. His writing is engaging, lucid, and enlightening.
In this volume he recounts events from his own youth with an immediacy that turns the personal
into the universal -- with enough amusing yet harrowing anectdotes to convince parents never
to give chemistry sets to their children.
[[Category: Book Notes]]
- You can cut and paste this example, replacing the necessary information for your own Book Note.
- In the ratings template, put in your own rating for each category using numerals 1 through 5. Ratings are discussed on the Book-Note Ratings Page.
- NB: the ratings template is surrounded by two curly braces, not square brackets. However, the "Category" at the bottom is surrounded by two square brackets.
- In the citation, italics are created by two aprostophes on each side of the italicized element; in the editing window, you can also select the text to be italicized and click the "I" button above the editing window.
- For the citation, we follow the US Library of Congress. Use a space around colons, and periods for punctuation between elements.
- The notes part of the Book Note may be abbreviated or extended; it is intended to inform visitors about the rationale for the ratings.
