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
If that were the case, though, my kids would be showing up with a different set of guidelines. I thought maybe I'd just misremembered the whole thing, since it's been almost 20 years since I finished high school, until I talked to Mike, and then saw your post. Go figure. Also? Wouldn't it be nice if we could all agree on one style? Even at my school, we can't, so we've got kids learning MLA in English and APA in History--because what we really, really want to do is confuse the living hell out of them (though don't get me started on HIstory at my school, which is taught like a college course no later than 10th grade--and that's assuming that it's not taught like a graduate level course. Those kids do stuff I didn't have to do in college (I'm doing my first annotated bibliography NEXT SEMESTER! These kids don't know enough to be able to evaluate a source yet, but they're expected to!). Gah.
ETA: I'd always assumed that the reason for single-spacing was to keep a quote from taking over the whole page/paper. Shows you what I know, I guess.
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Date: 2008-11-30 05:22 am (UTC)If that were the case, though, my kids would be showing up with a different set of guidelines. I thought maybe I'd just misremembered the whole thing, since it's been almost 20 years since I finished high school, until I talked to Mike, and then saw your post. Go figure. Also? Wouldn't it be nice if we could all agree on one style? Even at my school, we can't, so we've got kids learning MLA in English and APA in History--because what we really, really want to do is confuse the living hell out of them (though don't get me started on HIstory at my school, which is taught like a college course no later than 10th grade--and that's assuming that it's not taught like a graduate level course. Those kids do stuff I didn't have to do in college (I'm doing my first annotated bibliography NEXT SEMESTER! These kids don't know enough to be able to evaluate a source yet, but they're expected to!). Gah.
ETA: I'd always assumed that the reason for single-spacing was to keep a quote from taking over the whole page/paper. Shows you what I know, I guess.