If you've ever a research paper, you have more than likely used footnotes. In my undergraduate work I found myself flipping through sources, wondering where did this process get started? Why are they so important? The following journal article does an excellent job of answering both of these questions. All though the topic of footnotes at first may not seem very exciting, but try to understand a world without them? Without footnotes, how would historians track research through time? If you have the time its definitely worth the read!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/57504667/Grafton-the-Footnote
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