Gearing up

[twilight33]

I thought I was a relatively good writer, then this came along.

Wow. I wish I had had this resource as an undergrad, but am definitely glad I have it as a grad student because I am guilty of many things cited in here. It's free for all to use with appropriate credit, so I thought I'd share with my fellow student friends and/or anyone else interested.

Comments

[tim-wright.livejournal.com]

OK, I'm stealing part of that...or, I mean, "borrowing"....

Nice resource and succintly put.

Of course, most students will not read it.....

[twilight33]

OK, I'm stealing part of that...or, I mean, "borrowing"....

... and citing. Don't mess with Texas.

Think of those students who will read it though, even with an AP/HP background so much of this was never mentioned to me.

[nlguy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this!

I got a 'C' on a paper a few weeks ago just because I didn't understand the format the instructor wanted (that, and he viewed my essay in his e-mail client, which stripped my paper of all its footnotes... but we won't talk about that).

[twilight33]

You'd think a distance learning prof would know better than that, is he new to this realm?

[nlguy.livejournal.com]

Yep, first year prof.

Although I've also been at this job for 4 1/2 years and my coworkers still do that all the time and then complain about the formatting of a Word document they're trying to view in Novell Groupwise. Including the ones I've reminded not to do that.

[tim-wright.livejournal.com]

Your professor is a doofus, but just send him the file as a PDF—which is incredibly easy to do with a Mac..in... oh nevermind.