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icepixieThings I should not do:
1. Try to grade all twenty-two papers from a section of 101 in one day. Hahaha. Yeah, that was courtesy of the bad idea bears. Somewhere in the middle of the sixteenth paper, I had to give up before I started writing gibberish on the page. (These were 4-5 pages each, so not horrible, but not insignificant.) However, I was victorious today. I am not thinking about the six revisions to the first paper and sixteen extra credit personal essays I still have to grade.
2. Go two weeks without grocery shopping. Because then I will inevitably have to go do it in a downpour, because I'm out of everything. (Then again, there have been precious few days in the last couple weeks without rain, so perhaps it was inevitable.)
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Unrelated to any of this, I found out the other day that the MLA guidelines for the works cited list have changed again. TO STUPID ONES. Seriously, they don't want the URL of a website anymore. Let me repeat, they don't want the URL of a website anymore. I...professors are the ones who make this crap up! They of all people should know how much more work that's going to create when we have to go check our students' sources because some piece of writing they included sounds a whole lot better than anything they've turned in all semester!
And now they also want the word "Print" after an entry for each print source, which is...redundant, to say the least. "Asinine" might be a better word. I mean, presumably if you've got Author/Title/City/Publishing Company/Year it's a book, yes? There is no confusion here? Then again, at least it's not losing functionality. We should count our blessings.
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I have many words on narratology to read. I should get on that.
1. Try to grade all twenty-two papers from a section of 101 in one day. Hahaha. Yeah, that was courtesy of the bad idea bears. Somewhere in the middle of the sixteenth paper, I had to give up before I started writing gibberish on the page. (These were 4-5 pages each, so not horrible, but not insignificant.) However, I was victorious today. I am not thinking about the six revisions to the first paper and sixteen extra credit personal essays I still have to grade.
2. Go two weeks without grocery shopping. Because then I will inevitably have to go do it in a downpour, because I'm out of everything. (Then again, there have been precious few days in the last couple weeks without rain, so perhaps it was inevitable.)
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Unrelated to any of this, I found out the other day that the MLA guidelines for the works cited list have changed again. TO STUPID ONES. Seriously, they don't want the URL of a website anymore. Let me repeat, they don't want the URL of a website anymore. I...professors are the ones who make this crap up! They of all people should know how much more work that's going to create when we have to go check our students' sources because some piece of writing they included sounds a whole lot better than anything they've turned in all semester!
And now they also want the word "Print" after an entry for each print source, which is...redundant, to say the least. "Asinine" might be a better word. I mean, presumably if you've got Author/Title/City/Publishing Company/Year it's a book, yes? There is no confusion here? Then again, at least it's not losing functionality. We should count our blessings.
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I have many words on narratology to read. I should get on that.
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Date: 2009-10-15 10:42 pm (UTC)That's like saying, "Oh, we don't need author names on texts anymore. I'm sure the title will be sufficient for location purposes." UGH.
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Date: 2009-10-15 10:54 pm (UTC)I KNOW. The actual guideline is that you should include the author and title of the page, and once your reader knows those, it should be easily searchable. Uhhh, except for those big websites with lots of pages that aren't necessarily titled separately, leaving your reader hunting for hours to find the damn source you used. (They do say that if it's not googlable, you should include the URL. For damn sure I'm making all my kids include it in their citations, googlable or not, because this is screaming to be abused.)
That's like saying, "Oh, we don't need author names on texts anymore. I'm sure the title will be sufficient for location purposes." UGH.
Exactly! Dear god, I hope sanity reigns in the next edition.
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Date: 2009-10-16 01:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-16 03:59 pm (UTC)