# HG changeset patch
# User Robert McIntyre <rlm@mit.edu>
# Date 1384642119 18000
# Node ID ca1cd5bab77d31a5ba2d28cbe4a24ac5a665889e
# Parent  135fabc13f8a67416dcf14e175a2173280eb1e5c
thesis bibliography.

diff -r 135fabc13f8a -r ca1cd5bab77d org/ideas.org
--- a/org/ideas.org	Sat Nov 16 15:16:04 2013 -0500
+++ b/org/ideas.org	Sat Nov 16 17:48:39 2013 -0500
@@ -31,6 +31,18 @@
 getting credit.
 #+end_quote
 
+- better bibliography :: when writing a thesis or paper, have the
+     biblography not just be an opaque list of resources, but have it
+     be a list of /summaries/ and /qualities/ that each paper has in
+     the context of the paper being written. When examaning a
+     biblography, I want to know if reading the papers in the
+     bibliography are worth my time, and I also am probably also
+     interested in exactly the things that are being discussed in the
+     paper I'm reading. The bibliography is the perfect place to
+     provide information about the referenced papers from the
+     author's perspective. I will use this biblographic form in my own
+     thesis. 
+
 - digital inter-library loan :: libraries at universities already do
      interlibrary loans for books, so why not do the same for access
      to stupid paywalled digital papers? All the universities could