You're allowed to assume your readers have basic/common information -- basically, did it take special time and attention paid to this subject to find this? So, for instance, "The Earth is round" does not need to be footnoted; "The Earth has X particular curvature at this point" does.
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Date: 2011-03-22 06:00 pm (UTC)You're allowed to assume your readers have basic/common information -- basically, did it take special time and attention paid to this subject to find this? So, for instance, "The Earth is round" does not need to be footnoted; "The Earth has X particular curvature at this point" does.