{"id":2020,"date":"2010-11-17T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2010-11-17T17:22:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T00:22:12","slug":"lo-it-is-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Lo, It Is Written . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

I came home from the post office this afternoon to find M. typing on her PowerBook at the dining room table.<\/p>\n

“Cleanse your mind of impure thoughts,” I said. “Assume an attitude of reverence, for the new Holy Book has come.<\/p>\n

And then I sat the carton on the sofa and lifted it out: The Chicago Manual of Style, Sixteenth Edition<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Only editors’ hearts beat more quickly when they read text like, “We now recommend, for example, a single approach to ellipses\u2014a three- or four-dot method (chapter 13, where we also explain the European preference for bracketed ellipses.)”<\/p>\n

Or “More attention has been given to the role of software for manuscript editors\u2014for example, with the addition of a manuscript cleanup checklist intended to benefit authors and editors alike.”<\/p>\n

There are indeed times when it is good to have Authority.<\/p>\n

And for those needing only modest amounts of Authority, I recommend the Online Citation Quick Guide<\/a>, covering both humanities style (footnotes) and author-date style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came home from the post office this afternoon to find M. typing on her PowerBook at the dining room table. “Cleanse your mind of impure thoughts,” I said. “Assume an attitude of reverence, for the new Holy Book has come. 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I have been taking fish-oil capsules for several years, as well as lutein for my eyes.\u00a0 Now I crave some sardines: \"health food in a can,\"\u00a0 as someone said.","rel":"","context":"In \"food\"","block_context":{"text":"food","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?tag=food"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":477,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=477","url_meta":{"origin":2020,"position":5},"title":"Extreme AcademiaThe normally serious people\u2026","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Extreme AcademiaThe normally serious people at the American Association of University Professors have produced this.If, like me, you know these programs only from being occasionally trapped in a high-rise hotel room, this site can help.Sample: Average JoeJournal editors deliberately select mediocre articles for their next issues. 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