I Miss MLA Formatting

[lleeder]

It really was the best way to write a paper.

[TheMojoPin]

Chicago all the way, baby.

[Mullenax]

Chicago all the way, baby.

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[Coach]

Every place I have ever attended classes only recognized MLA. I know not of this CHICAGO you speak of.
I am serious on that...

[TheMojoPin]

When was the last time you took a college course?

[DolaMight]

I don't miss threads where I have to google to understand what's understood. Fuck MLA, it's all MLC now.

[Mullenax]

Chicago style is preferred by the arts; in general ed classes it was MLA, in my education major classes I was required to use APA format. I prefer Chicago style especially for footnotes and (at the expense of revealing my ignorance) unconventional sources like audio recordings, online magazine articles, and art exhibits. Once I learned it I found it fairly intuitive.

[Coach]

When was the last time you took a college course?1998 Graduate school: Currently...all of my classes insist on MLA.
Of course, I am studying Literature..so I dunno.

[TheMojoPin]

Chicago style is preferred by the arts; in general ed classes it was MLA, in my education major classes I was required to use APA format. I prefer Chicago style especially for footnotes and (at the expense of revealing my ignorance) unconventional sources like audio recordings, online magazine articles, and art exhibits. Once I learned it I found it fairly intuitive.

Yeah, in terms of writing professional history papers nothing beats Chicago style.

[weekapaugjz]

Chicago style is preferred by the arts; in general ed classes it was MLA, in my education major classes I was required to use APA format. I prefer Chicago style especially for footnotes and (at the expense of revealing my ignorance) unconventional sources like audio recordings, online magazine articles, and art exhibits. Once I learned it I found it fairly intuitive.

i HATE APA format. and i prefer Chicago over MLA.

but i think strunk and white's elements of style had the biggest impact on my writing.

[weekapaugjz]

Yeah, in terms of writing professional history papers nothing beats Chicago style.

agreed.

and can't you even spell the name of your own city right?

[Marc with a c]

mla is the thin crust of formats.

[Coach]

Strunk and White I use a lot.

[Charlie_Don't_Surf]

As an engineer I had it pretty good until it was time for a humanities classes, after writing using MLA all through high school, I could have cried when I had to use APA for a psych class, it's just so inefficient.

[Coach]

Yeah, in terms of writing professional history papers nothing beats Chicago style.
When I got my Ba in History at Rutgers in 92..we had to use MLA in every class..When I got my Ba. in English in 93, had to use MLA in every class. Ba in Poli Sci in 98..it was, come to think of it, may have been either. Maybe I was just soo used to MLA?

[TheMojoPin]

When I got my Ba in History at Rutgers in 92..we had to use MLA in every class..When I got my Ba. in English in 93, had to use MLA in every class. Ba in Poli Sci in 98..it was, come to think of it, may have been either. Maybe I was just soo used to MLA?

No, the shift to Chicago has really only happened in the last few years.

[Coach]

No, the shift to Chicago has really only happened in the last few years.
My prof in "Arthurian Lit." last semester insisted on MLA. Sounds stupid...can you guide me to a good place to find out about Chicago in case I need it? (I mean on the Web) I know some asshat will say the library..but that is a pain in the ass.

[Death Metal Moe]

I still have my MLA book wrapped in it's original book cover I made from a shopping bag in a drawer.

[weekapaugjz]

My prof in "Arthurian Lit." last semester insisted on MLA. Sounds stupid...can you guide me to a good place to find out about Chicago in case I need it? (I mean on the Web) I know some asshat will say the library..but that is a pain in the ass.

here you go. (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/)

[ToiletCrusher]

All of the courses I have taken have been APA style.

[britneypablo]

<font color="deeppink"> your either in highschool or your a savage animal if your writing in anything other than Chicago

[Thebazile78]

I had to learn APA so I could edit my friend's MCSW papers when she was getting her social work Master's ... and then had to refresh it for my brother's community college papers.

But all I did through high school & college was MLA, but I wrote my last paper for college 9 years ago this week.

Before that, the only papers I ever wrote used footnotes. That was a pain in the ass and a half let me tell you! Between the antiquated style and the expectation that our class all had typewriters, not computers, and the fact that the teacher accepting the assignments was an ignoramus, it made my life a living hell for my final 2 years of what's effectively "middle school" in most school districts.

But, with word processing programs making it so easy to do footnotes or endnotes, Chicago style looks like it's keeping up with the times. Thank God. I hate parentheticals.

Nowadays, I check things at work for the appropriate Bluebook (http://www.legalbluebook.com/) format. God help me if we ever change over to ALWD (http://www.alwd.org/publications/citation_manual.html)!

[Freitag]

I had to learn APA

DAMN!

[Thebazile78]

DAMN!

Keep those comments to the rasslin' thread, you.