Blogpost#4 research and citing

Many times I have to think about, how to treat all those reference lists of so many readings to be covered while I am doing journal entries. It is highly possible that every citation included by an author hardly carries equal weight, as the motives of which differ and so does the validity; thus it is highly essential to take differential treatment upon the citations of a given article. The normal way I have been taking to make journal entries when dealing with citation (and reference list) is marking down the citation that is thought provoking, novel or that could be used as support of argument for my writing, and that is all. It is not easy not to unwittingly miss the citation out of motives of providing further reading for readers when there are citations around, especially when some of which are not that valid and essential and the motives of which are not that clear to me as I had not enough knowledge of the motivation of citing behavior. The idea of treating citation differentially as the motives differ would probably inspired me to analyze the reason(s) and motive(s) behind each citation I would come across for the next article to be studied.