Perils of unclear footnoting

Ten years ago, a Newfoundland college student wrote a term paper on juvenile sex offenders for her social work course. As "Appendix A" she reprinted a case study from a book, a first-person account by a teenaged girl who had been sexually abused as a child and was now abusing those in her care. The student didn't provide any source information for the appendix. "What happened next is a chilling lesson in the perils of unclear footnoting."

Posted on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 9:05 AM