I am starting to think that someone went back in time and changed all the books on us as a cruel trick, frankly.
I wonder if it's a common trick for high school and lower-level college course teachers to tell their students to single space long quotations to avoid having them take up half the paper with quotes, because you know the brats would do it if you gave them half a chance.
(It's a sad commentary on my life that I now think of so many things in terms of "how freshmen would screw it up.")
I also prefer an indent on the right as well as left, but I was never taught to do it that way. Then again, journal articles generally do, and in theory I'm supposed to be looking forward to writing them in the near future. Of course, journal articles usually use Chicago, rather than MLA style. My undergrad education is frickin' useless. Glad I paid attention to the citation style used by the history department.
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Date: 2008-11-30 05:03 am (UTC)I wonder if it's a common trick for high school and lower-level college course teachers to tell their students to single space long quotations to avoid having them take up half the paper with quotes, because you know the brats would do it if you gave them half a chance.
(It's a sad commentary on my life that I now think of so many things in terms of "how freshmen would screw it up.")
I also prefer an indent on the right as well as left, but I was never taught to do it that way. Then again, journal articles generally do, and in theory I'm supposed to be looking forward to writing them in the near future. Of course, journal articles usually use Chicago, rather than MLA style. My undergrad education is frickin' useless. Glad I paid attention to the citation style used by the history department.