I do APA, so cannot confuse myself with Harvard! It's so frustrating because you get docked marks for getting a comma or a full-stop in the wrong place. Until university, I don't think I realised that misplacing italic text would signify the end of the world...
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you.
But there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
I aint no abacus but you can count on me.
I do APA, so cannot confuse myself with Harvard! It's so frustrating because you get docked marks for getting a comma or a full-stop in the wrong place. Until university, I don't think I realised that misplacing italic text would signify the end of the world...
I know, frustrating isn't it!
I also have to do APA.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break
that its heart may stand in the sun,
so must you know pain.
There are only two ways in which one can live their life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is.
Its the only referencing my course will allow. Completely different to any I've done before I share your pain, its horrendous. But my uni has done a good reference help link, I'll post the link in a sec
my uni did a whole 15 page booklet on it and it still doesnt make sense!
There are times to stay put, and what you want will come to you.
But there are times to go out into the world and find such a thing for yourself.
I aint no abacus but you can count on me.
The book Cite them Right has been invaluable in regards to referencing. I have to do Harvard and it does my bloody head in. But I'd hate to do that one with all the numbers and footnotes, that looks confusing! For my last assignment, the uni's rule on word count and references changed to include references at the last minute and my course were unable to change our word count - that was a little piece of hell on earth - I hate uni. Fact.
I used to have to do it at uni, but I loved it because it looks so neat and orderly at the end of the work. I actually took huge pride in making sure it was perfect and done exactly how it's supposed to.
I'll see what happens when I submit to 'Turn-it-in' ... just another invention to make my life more complicated!
Ugh, I hated Turnitin. Even though I'm not a one to plagiarise, it still made me paranoid in case I accidentally wrote the same sentence as someone else without realising it (there are so many essays being submitted each year about the same topic that this is just bound to happen at some point).
Last year I used the Harvard University website to do the referencing correctly & my tutor told me it was wrong. How can it be wrong?!
I used to have to do it when I was at uni & every time I handed in an assignment, I'd be told that the referencing was wrong. So I'd find out the correct way that it should be done from that specific lecturer & then use that way the next time, only to be told that it was wrong again. I don't think I ever got it completely right, even when I read up on how to do it or copied the format of other people on my course who didn't get told it was wrong. Yes, referencing is a pain in the backside.
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