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[theyellowhobbit]

How much of an academic dork would I be to have a footnote on the title of my paper?

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[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

I think you'd win cookies, regardless.

[joriejc2.livejournal.com]

Heehee I think that'd be awesome :)

[dr_whom]

Usually a footnote on the title of a paper is there to list acknowledgements or previous versions, like:

Toward a Postmodern Hermeneutic of Things Referencing Other Things*

*I am grateful to Cecil Harvey and Rosa Farrell for their helpful comments and assistance. This research was supported by grant #CMSAB24601 from the National Endowment for the Humanities. A previous version of this paper was printed in Proceedings of the 11th International Colloquium on Things Referencing Other Things.

That said, I really dislike that convention. If you want to put a real footnote on your title instead, more power to you.

[autumnblackbird.livejournal.com]

I've done that. But then again, I am, without question, an academic dork. :) Did quite well on that paper, actually.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

It would be like this:

City Upon a Tel:¹ (#1)Sarah Palin and Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.


¹ (#1_back)[Something about Tel in the archaeological sense being an appropriate metaphor.]

Though she knows about archaeology and whatnot, so she probably will get the reference and maybe the footnote should not be there.

Also, look how good I am at resisting the urge to have the title be something like "City upon a Hill: How Sarah Palin was made of Epic Fail in the VP debate." I will not use the phrase "epic fail" in my paper. I will be good.

Also, I really like your footnote.

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

What about footnoting footnotes? Have you done that? (I've done it a few times, most recently in my last exegesis paper. I haven't gotten that back yet so I'm not sure how I did, seeing as it had gigantic tangential footnotes which were almost as long as half the paper.)

[sen-ichi-rei.livejournal.com]

Yay, cookies!

Can they be chocolate chip?

[autumnblackbird.livejournal.com]

I think I was tempted to do so once, but resisted, fearing that the strain would cause Microsoft Word to crash. :)