I would like to declare war on citing sources in academic papers. I have until midnight tomorrow to upload a three-page research paper for Government. Not a problem. Three pages? If I can't do that in over twenty-four hours then I deserve to fail, but I'm spending more time trying to figure out how to cite sources than I am actually writing the damn thing. All of my sources are electronic, and the methods for citing electronic sources are byzantine and confusing. Even citing eBooks isn't as simple as citing printed books. And don't get me started on my Crusade to figure out how to cite the documentary I watched on Daily Motion. You'd think it'd be simple, but I'm assuming the people who write the guidelines are nerds who assume they're talking to people with more access to their instructors than email.
I officially submit that citing sources be ended as an academic practice, and that all forms of formal learning become as unreliable as 99% of the internet. Let the Evangelicals win. At least I won't have to figure out whether or not I have to cite the page number of a PDF file.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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