A Sea Of Red

As someone who is an ongoing student, does anyone remember in English 100 or 101 learning to type papers in any other format except MLA? I never remember doing it, and as some of you know most professors no longer use MLA and require APA or (God forbid... Turabian). I was just wondering if anything has changed because it would really had been nice if I was taught to write papers in that format. Now I'm left to figure it all out by myself for Philosophy papers and so on...

If not it's something that needs to be recommended because I would have much rather been taught how to write in these formats instead of guessing.

I know for my PSYC 210 class we had to use APA and in seminary some of the professors require Turabian (well they are all supposed to but for some classes they really arent gonna drop 50 points on your grade if it isnt exact). I havent heard anything about "most" professors requiring APA. I'll have to talk to a friend of mine who is the chair of the English Department about that one

BJWilliams wrote:I know for my PSYC 210 class we had to use APA and in seminary some of the professors require Turabian (well they are all supposed to but for some classes they really arent gonna drop 50 points on your grade if it isnt exact). I havent heard anything about "most" professors requiring APA. I'll have to talk to a friend of mine who is the chair of the English Department about that one

Okay thanks. I'm not angry about it or anything I'm just seeing if I just missed something because I never remember preparing papers in those formats in 100 or 101 (which if I remember those are basically "how to write papers" class).

All of my seminary classes required Turabian. No, we never learned it in ENG 100/101. Yes, it's stupid.

Most style manuals are discipline specific. That is to say, English and COMS use MLA; Psychology and Education use APA; and History and Religion use Turabian, for example.

And the MLA Style just came out with a new edition last fall, so what you learned years ago about MLA has changed somewhat--including titles of books and journals are now in italics instead of underlined.

Cider Jim wrote:Most style manuals are discipline specific. That is to say, English and COMS use MLA; Psychology and Education use APA; and History and Religion use Turabian, for example.

And the MLA Style just came out with a new edition last fall, so what you learned years ago about MLA has changed somewhat--including titles of books and journals are now in italics instead of underlined.

Thank you. I was just wondering if in ENGL 100 and 101 they could teach all 3 styles so we are able to learn it without bugging other professors about how to write it in whatever style they wish. I know this would have been helpful to me.

I'm not positive, but I think the LB Brief Handbook used in the freshman composition courses (101 & 102) may have examples of multiple style formats, like both MLA and APA.

Cider Jim wrote:I'm not positive, but I think the LB Brief Handbook used in the freshman composition courses (101 & 102) may have examples of multiple style formats, like both MLA and APA.

I have the "Prentice Hall Reference Guide" from ENGL 101, which I still use. It has an example paper for APA, but just a works cited guide for CM/Turabian.

APA is of the devil. Anytime you can cite someone and NOT include the page number you got the information from (unless you're quoting directly), it's a bad thing. It was created as an experiment by psychologists to see if people would blindly follow an academic style that was totally bogus, and it has worked. Unfortunately, it's pretty much the accepted format in education, so I'm stuck with it.

I used modified Turabian in seminary at Southern, and liked it well enough (especially once I got the template set up in Word). I used MLA in high school -- it was ok.

Thankfully, Mendeley Desktop lets you cut and paste citation formats, so I don't have to really worry about it anymore. I set my margins and go -- and have http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/ in my bookmarks