Dear Academic Universe,
Why on Earth do we need to have 9725 different types of citation guidelines? This is a serious question as a personally see absolutely no reason why we can't just pick one? One of the main complaints I hear from educator's is that they don't have enough time to teach everything that they are supposed to. Well here's an idea....eliminate all the irrelevant citation styles and that's a few extra days of teaching the important stuff!
I do think that plagiarism is a huge problem, and in integrating new medias into our classrooms it is a constant worry, but maybe kid's would be more open to citing information if we didn't make it so stinking difficult! For instance, if everyone who is reading an academic article (which is a very specific audience to begin with) can't find the original article based on an MLA citation and works cited page then isn't this a problem with comprehension? I don't think that capitalizing or not capitalizing a title makes any difference at all, nor do I think that it matters what is in the parentheses after the citation as long as it references the proper article in the works cited. It's annoying for me as a future educator so I can only imagine how my future student's will respond. Just saying. In my opinion, sometimes simplicity really is best!
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