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  2. Annotated bibliography - Wikipedia

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    An annotated bibliography is a bibliography that gives a summary of each of the entries. [1] The purpose of annotations is to provide the reader with a summary and an evaluation of each source. Each summary should be a concise exposition of the source's central idea(s) and give the reader a general idea of the source's content.

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    The lead sentence should describe the person as they are commonly described by reliable sources. The noteworthy position(s) or role(s) the person held should usually be stated in the opening paragraph. However, avoid overloading the lead paragraph with various and sundry roles; instead, emphasize what made the person notable.

  4. Help:How to write a readable article - Wikipedia

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    On 5 April 2021, the "Logic" article first two paragraphs looked like this: Logic (from Greek : λογική, logikḗ , 'possessed of reason , intellectual , dialectical , argumentative ') is the systematic study of valid rules of inference , i.e. the relations that lead to the acceptance of one proposition (the conclusion ) on the basis of a ...

  5. Bibliography - Wikipedia

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    English author and bibliographer John Carter describes bibliography as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or ...

  6. International Standard Bibliographic Description - Wikipedia

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    Standardized punctuation (colons, semicolons, slashes, dashes, commas, and periods) is used to identify and separate the elements and areas. The order of elements and standardized punctuation make it easier to interpret bibliographic records when one does not understand the language of the description. 0: Content form and media type area

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout - Wikipedia

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    Sections usually consist of paragraphs of running prose, each dealing with a particular point or idea. Single-sentence paragraphs can inhibit the flow of the text; by the same token, long paragraphs become hard to read. Between paragraphs—as between sections—there should be only a single blank line. First lines are not indented.

  8. Wikipedia:Citing sources - Wikipedia

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    If a word or phrase is particularly contentious, an inline citation may be added next to that word or phrase within the sentence, but it is usually sufficient to add the citation to the end of the clause, sentence, or paragraph, so long as it's clear which source supports which part of the text.

  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    The lead paragraph (sometimes spelled "lede") [Q] of newspaper journalism is a compressed summary of only the most important facts about a story. These basic facts are sometimes referred to as the "five Ws": who, what, when, where, and why. Journalistic leads normally are only one or two sentences long.