Essays FTL.

[linmeister]

Especially ones that don't use the standard MLA format that all my previous humanities teachers pounded into my head. Oh no, that's not good enough! This professor wants Chicago format! With footnotes. What, parenthetical citation isn't fancy enough or something? Stupid footnotes

Comments

[litespeed]

Get used to funky formats. My systematics class uses some format that I've never encountered. Folks say that each professor has their own way of citing sources. Just get used to the idea of a system, know how to look up the format they want. Don't expect any given format. It's the only way to not go insane. Just be happy when they don't request anything specific.

[dunfalach]

I remember Chicago format, vaguely. Had one teacher who wanted it in that format. What are the three topics you had to pick from?

Scientific Writing

[dr_daven]

It's nice that scientific papers are have a standardized format for writing. Of course, they do that by forcing you to write in a pathetically boring, completely oppressive passive voice. Data was analyzed, and mind-numbing results was written. At least, you can ad a whole crapload of techincal wordage to confuse laymen, but the reviewers know more about the subject that I do.

Also, the citation format is so obsessively anal-retentive that you have to count periods and commas. And, every SINGLE scientific journal has their own preference, resulting in a 100 page PDF document, with each page listing 30 different ways of adding periods to a citation.

Not to mention I have to produce 30 pages of writing from somewhere in the next month, and as of right now, it doesn't look like it was produced by my brain, if you know what I mean.

So, Lin, I'll trade ya!

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