{"id":4429,"date":"2012-03-06T21:18:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T02:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4429"},"modified":"2012-03-06T21:18:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T02:18:06","slug":"citing-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/06\/citing-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"Citing Tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/03\/scholarship-twitter-and-the-mla\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mla.org\/style\/handbook_faq\/cite_a_tweet\">MLA Handbook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.leancrew.com\/all-this\/2012\/03\/scholarship-twitter-and-the-mla\/\"><p>The first problem, though, is the more important one. The purpose of citation is to show the antecedents of your work. And not just to show them&mdash;they must be shown in a way that allows others to look them up and check whether you&rsquo;re quoting or using the references properly. The information in an MLA tweet citation doesn&rsquo;t provide enough information for a researcher to find the tweet being cited.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang on the MLA Handbook: The first problem, though, is the more important one. The purpose of citation is to show the antecedents of your work. And not just to show them&mdash;they must be shown in a way that allows others to look them up and check whether you&rsquo;re quoting or using the references [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4429\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}