It's one thing at the undergrad level, where you're the only one doing it.
Remember -- it's the witty and intelligent ones who get tapped for grad school. So we've all done that. And every magazine is receiving dozens of papers to publish. You can imagine how many witty statements they get, and how after awhile it starts to wear on the nerves.
The really bad ones, though, arre the ones that are thick slabs of gristly jargon, with a witticism thrown in apparently at random. Those are painful
But this one isn't always bad. Done with subtlety, and well-placed, cleverness can be quite good.
As for MLA, that's the only one I completely disagree with. MLA is a lot more sensible, intuitive, and easy to use.
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Date: 2006-03-04 04:37 pm (UTC)Remember -- it's the witty and intelligent ones who get tapped for grad school. So we've all done that. And every magazine is receiving dozens of papers to publish. You can imagine how many witty statements they get, and how after awhile it starts to wear on the nerves.
The really bad ones, though, arre the ones that are thick slabs of gristly jargon, with a witticism thrown in apparently at random. Those are painful
But this one isn't always bad. Done with subtlety, and well-placed, cleverness can be quite good.
As for MLA, that's the only one I completely disagree with. MLA is a lot more sensible, intuitive, and easy to use.