[Sca-cooks] Slap me in the face

[Laura C. Minnick]

Suey, no one is slapping you in the face.We're simply saying that you 
need to do what I tell my students: show your work. Heck, my kids always 
got that from their math teachers. My kids can do complicated stuff in 
their heads, but they can't tell you how the arrived at the answer. They 
can only tell you the answer. But when you're doing historical research, 
the _process_ and the documentation of the process, is as important as 
the answer, if not more so.

Just saying "But I know this! Don't question my knowledge!" doesn't 
work. You need to tell us 1) what you know, and 2) how you know it. I 
could say "I know what Charlemagne ate" but that is of no use to others 
unless I say "He liked to eat roasted meat" and "Einhard says so in his 
biography of Charlemagne."

We're not asking for a dissertation. We're simply asking that you show 
your work.

Liutgard

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