Here's a question for you: Since about a year ago, I copied/pasted into txt-documents pieces of writing-wisdom from all over the net. I made myself a little (or not so little by now) 'primer'-collection. I included things I should look out for when writing, grammar stuff, plot development hints, character-motivation, how to make a first chapter worth it,... the list goes on for about two hundred primer-txt-files. I copied from all over the net (though not from here on WF). So. I want to share. Say I want to make a blog-post about crutch-words (since that was the topic I researched right now). But unfortunately, it only now occurred to me—after I'd perused about twenty different websites and copy/pasted the pertinent bits into my 'primer'-txt-file, that I might need references. So what do I do now? The 'history' function in my browers was turned off: and I pulled a list of words and definitions from all over the web, from i.e. blog-posts and pdfs where freely available. I want to share this 'wisdom', because I think it could be of benefit to others. Sure, I could rephrase, but some definitions are brilliant and I don't think I can come up with anything better. Thoughts?
Honestly, references that cannot be traced are worthless. You need to find out who they came from- if you cannot, why should your potential employer care?
If you've cut and pasted you have the exact text, right? So pull a couple sentences out, paste them into Google with quotation marks around them, and it should take you to wherever on the web those sentences have been used.
@Pinkymcfiddle : You mistook me. This is not for an application/work, but only for a potential blog-post here @BayView : Yes, that should work (at least for the most current txt-files). For older ones, I can at least try. Thanks!
oh hoho sorry, extra-curricular fun as opposed to those five days of hellish subservience we all have to suffer out of every seven. The life-destroyer that is work.
