What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

[HasiraKali]

Am I the only person who did that every year starting in like, third grade? Okay then.

You're not alone. I remember at least starting to reference things in early elementary school. I teach my students to cite sources and make references because it is the age of internet. I also teach them to analyze sources and how to determine good from not so good. I don't want to live in a world where people believe some of the stuff out here in InternetLand... or History/Discovery Channel...

[Ninaroja]

@HereWeStand: True true - don't think the teacher found it funny though

On a slightly darker note though I heard the N word in a movie my dad was watching when I was quite young and didn't realise what a disgusting origin it has (I refuse to say it today, even the slang term so often used in rap songs). I thought it was just another way of saying "black person". Luckily I never said it in front of anyone outside the house/anyone it would have truly offensive to, but it's another example of not exposing kids to language they won't necessarily understand.

[Marizzle]

I wish I had been taught how to reference/make bibliographies BEFORE I went to University. I'd never done it before and it's still really confusing

This. People make it seem so much easier, though.

This may be of some help to you then http://www.citationmachine.net/

Thanks! I'm currently saving every suggestion given here...I'm pretty I'll use them, somehow.

[HereWeStand]

Yikes yeah the N word is a different matter entirely, but I guess I wouldn't be offended seeing a kid drop the F bomb really. I guess it depends on the word.

Has Discovery Channel always been bad? I remember watching DVD documentaries by it as a kid but never had the proper channel for it to watch it after that.

[Carl]

I don't mind what the kids say personally, but I was watching The Boondocks and I can't imagine a 7 year old white kid saying the N word like they do on that show at school going well. His parents would prolly be mad at me if that happened.

[Gemini]

Am I the only person who did that every year starting in like, third grade? Okay then.

You're not alone. I remember at least starting to reference things in early elementary school. I teach my students to cite sources and make references because it is the age of internet. I also teach them to analyze sources and how to determine good from not so good. I don't want to live in a world where people believe some of the stuff out here in InternetLand... or History/Discovery Channel...

I actually was taught that way, too. lol Like I said, I did that a lot in elementary and junior high school. From like... 5th grade up until 9th grade. I was also taught to find good sources and all that, to be sure.

It's just... well, it's not that we weren't required to use sources in papers in high school, it's just that we were rarely made to do things like that. The computers sucked so badly towards the end that it literally took me twenty minutes to log into Google and print something out one time. Plus once they brought the 9th graders up and made it a 9-12 school, all the computer labs had to be taken out, so there was pretty much no way to get to them. So we did almost everything by hand on paper and almost never did research-type essays. It was just too damn difficult to do them, honestly.

//this is the same school where we had to use cassette tapes for an AP Spanish test, not joking

I know how to use citations and I was taught, but like I said, it's just not a skill I really ever need to use that much anymore. So I'm really very rusty. I'm just lucky that there's websites for that.

[Carl]

All of my research essays before college were written on paper done by hand and still had to have citations or we failed. We weren't allowed to print anything. And we had one pretty much every year of regular school.

[Marizzle]

I need to charge my 3DS. I feel like playing Pokémon AS.

[Gemini]

All of my research essays before college were written on paper done by hand and still had to have citations or we failed. We weren't allowed to print anything. And we had one pretty much every year of regular school.

^ Huh, interesting. I remember one time in 7th grade I got no points for my bibliography because the spacing was slightly off, or something... but that was before high school.

That being said, they didn't really ever make us hand-write MLA citations. In fact, I rarely even did actual essays 10-12. It was all papers based off stuff in class, so we didn't have to look up additional information.

My high school was weird though, and I hated it. But that's a rant for another time, ehhh.

[Marizzle]

All of my research essays before college were written on paper done by hand and still had to have citations or we failed. We weren't allowed to print anything. And we had one pretty much every year of regular school.

Here, any research essays could be done by hand or on a computer, although teachers preferred to have them done on a PC, then printed. We also utilize the school's/college's digital platform quite often. For example, instead of physically delivering an essay, we have to upload it to that platform and send it to the teacher, as a Word/PowerPoint/etc document.