GeminiGemelo wrote:Killjoy Dixon wrote: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.
We even had to cite the assigned textbooks in my schools. Technically, it's plagiarism if you don't cite it. I doubt anyone was gonna take little kids to court, but they implied they would. Scared us into trying.
Marizzle wrote:Killjoy Dixon wrote: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.
At college, it was all printed from a computer or submitted digitally, like what you describe, but in all the other levels of school, we wrote them on paper. We didn't have computers at the school to just use willy nilly, and back in those days it wasn't expected that there'd be a computer in every single house.






I was gutted! Really got into it then BAM, no more. 