[bksvol-discuss] Re: What does this mean?
- From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 22:14:49 -0400
You can also think of a sidebar as a picture caption without the picture.
On 8/24/2012 9:58 PM, Judy s. wrote:
Hi Netta,
A sidebar should be left as a sidebar. It's hard to understand if
you've never actually seen a printed page in a textbook, but let me
see if I can explain it a different way. A printed page can have
multiple kinds of text in multiple places, like the way you can have
multiple kinds of food on a plate. Think of the main text on the page
as the main entree. It's the sirloin steak. The footnotes are
something that gives extra reference information about the main text.
They're the steak sauce. Sometimes an author wants to add additional
information to the main text, or give information that they especially
want to emphasize, or that's just tangential to the information in the
main text. They do that by putting it in sidebars, which are columns
or boxes of text that are physically printed to one side or the other
of the main text. Think of sidebars as the side dish to the main
entree--they're the baked potato that sits by the steak on a plate.
Does that help?
Judy s.
On 8/24/2012 8:39 PM, Dornetta wrote:
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Hey guys;
I am reading a textbook, Traditions and Encounters: A Global
Perspective on the Past, which is copyrighted in 2000. This is a book
for my world history class and a bookshare download. I am currently
waiting for a updated copy but for now this will have to do. My
question is this (for all of you old bookshare volunteers), what does
the following mean:
[Side Bar: "Knowledge of winds and currents] Not the text within the
quotes but the Side Bar
Is the side bar a footnote? Can I treat it as one-footnote? There are
no numbers, I. e., [footnote 1:] or [***1***] etc... There are
several of these [Side Bar(s):] within the text and not for nothing,
I think that they are footnotes. Why else would such a "thing" be in
a history textbook. *shrug*
Please advise,
Netta
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