I’m finishing up a paper for one of my classes, and I’m battering my head against a brick wall. You see, the original professor of this class was replaced… because he died. The replacement is bound and determined to keep to the original’s syllabus, including the portions of it that make no sense… whatsoever. Including that the paper be in APA format, with 1 1/2 line spacing– not double spaced. (Really? 1 1/2 line spacing? Is that kinda like “we want white space, but not enough to be useful?”) Cue me emailing the replacement about whether or not I could use Turabian style instead.
No go… the Computer Science department requires all papers, including theses, dissertations, and ALL term/course papers to be in APA style… which was designed for publication, not for classwork. The irony? Turabian style was designed from the ground up for classwork… not for publication. Hence why it’s officially known as “A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations…”
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to return to beating my head against my desk, and seeing which breaks first.
Bob S.
31 Oct 11 at 6:42 PM
I would bet that most papers will be scanned into a OCR system and checked for plagiarism — hence the requirement for APA.
Dixie
1 Nov 11 at 3:35 PM
I know that pretty much every paper is checked for plagiarism… but the history department does that, too… and they use Turabian.