format and have used it in the past, but very few understand the underlying purpose of academic citation. It’s another one of those things to be done because the teacher said so, a toll to be paid on the academic road, where you have no idea why you’re handing over your money. You should hear the groans when I tell them that the citation scheme produced by the Modern Language Association is not a universal standard but is confined to the discipline of English and that they will have to learn other citation methods if they write researched essays in courses in different departments. To students
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