Use and Misuse of Referencing in the Academia

It goes without saying that academic referencing is paramount in helping a reader identify important resources that would otherwise remain unexplored. Yet it may sometimes be employed deceitfully to substantiate weak or irrelevant points and perhaps show deference to some specific milieus, often the ones to which the author belongs.

The interesting article linked below focuses on the interpreting field, although it probably could be extended to others.

The author? Daniel Gile (who else?)

Use and Misuse of Literature in Interpreting Research

Filed under: Interpretation, Linguistics, Translation