This article provides a landing page for participants attending the International Symposium of CENSE: Beyond Listening: Re-Sounding Rights of Nature, 15-17 October 2026, Gdansk, Poland (original call). This will also be of interest to readers who follow my academic and composition work.
This post contains the original abstract, a link to the poster (PDF), a link to an illustrative composition, and references. I might update this in advance of the conference.
Possibly the most important part of research is acknowledging your sources. This allows readers the opportunity to trace your ideas through the web of knowledge, uncovering further details, testing the usage of that source in order to validate your claims, or simply to find more fun stuff to read. Plagiarism is the most serious academic crime a researcher can commit, so acknowledging sources is mandatory.
Referencing generally consists of two parts. First we need an inline citation whenever a quote or idea is borrowed from another writer. Second, we need a reference list that gives the reader all the information they require to locate the source.
In the following I will compare popular referencing styles and explain why I use none of them. Or rather: I use a combination of the best qualities of these, in order to guarantee simplicity, consistency, and clarity. Referencing should be as readable as possible, simplifying the tasks of both writer and reader.
Researching the history of the internet I came across this image in Wiki Commons. It is a diagram of the NSFNET backbone on paisley notepaper, dated 1 October 1990, by B.S. Blair (CC BY-SA 4.0). I am fascinated by this palimpsest so will expand on my original social media post below.
