His heavily footnoted style is a tribute to another writer probably less familiar to his fans: David Foster Wallace.
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That is, the program tucks your added, deleted or reformatted text and numbers into the original documents, without disturbing whatever fonts, graphics, footnotes, styles and other formatting elements were there.
Half "Serious Investigative Science Writing," half "Gleefully Macabre Cocktail Party Fascinators," Roach's footnote-studded style marries witty good humor with remarkable discoveries from dusty government archives.
Don't knock it just yet: Judging from the current book up for discussion in HuffPost Book Club, footnotes are in style anyway.
Blair had the Balkans and Northern Ireland, and Dave wants international success, too (without the whole awkward, Iraq-style footnote), so is making moves to create some kind of legacy other than those vandalised billboards and policies that make life harder for disabled people.
If you are using footnotes, know the Style Manual applicable to your subject and school.
In Chicago style, footnotes are used in place of parenthetical citations and are more common.
This pleasure licenses his own digressive and colloquial style (a footnote that begins "This is nothing to do with anything …" gives you the tone of voice).
Type the footnote in the correct style.
