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Posted: April 05 2013 at 3:15pm | IP Logged Quote cheesehead mom
When my older son got to the Major Papers section of Jensens Format Writing I had a college student tutor him as I thought some of the information (works cited page and such) might be outdated. With my second child, there is no school budget left for a tutor so I am curious if anyone has used this section as is or augmented it with something else...not really sure if the old notecard method I used in high school/college to organize major papers even makes since in this computer age...thanks for any thoughts.

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I think it's still a good system, because it's hands-on in the way that computer cutting-and-pasting isn't. You can spread out all your information and organize it on the floor, which you can't do on a screen.

Documentation styles do change some over time, and they vary from discipline to discipline, but the basic idea is the same: document what isn't yours. That I think is the concept you want to hammer home. When I taught college composition, we used a handbook which is now available as an online resource, and I would highly recommend it as a secondary resource. Basically I think Jensen is good, if not exciting, but this is good as a "second opinion" source if you're not sure about documentation format for a particular situation.

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