dcernst / IBL-IntroToProof

A textbook for the transition to proof course for mathematics majors utilizing IBL.
http://dcernst.github.io/IBL-IntroToProof
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Address comment at end of Intro about referencing things by number #102

Closed dcernst closed 3 years ago

dcernst commented 3 years ago

Reviewer 5: p. 11, paragraph 2: Referencing by number alone really shouldn’t be encouraged in general, since an instructor may or may not have additional results or alternate numbering. In fact, this instruction to the reader directly contradicts the Style Guide #2 in Appendix A. To be more general, encourage students to summarize the result in addition to referencing by number – as well as be reminded that different sources will have different numbering for the same results.

I'd like to split the difference. Here suggest that student quickly summarize the numbered result. If I do this, I should reword Item 2 in Appendix A.

dcernst commented 3 years ago

Done.