Ok boys, settle down, it is not what you are thinking ;) My secret fantasy is simple: a huge fire in each and every university in the world, where students can throw their APA manuals in it, while dancing around it :) Oh, I can just imagine myself singing and jumping around the fire while I watch it burn! "Burn baby burn!" (singing loudly and madly). Sorry to disappoint, but that is my fantasy.
Remember when you were in fourth grade and you had to write a paper about something like the local folk stories or about this or that battle? And you could pick a nice color for your file, where you would put your hand written work, including that nice cover page with your best handwriting and glued pictures? And then you would compare with the work of your friends and see witch one was the prettiest (and there were always the ones that had the moms do all the nice art work for them... I didn't have that privilege). Anyways, on those days I would always get good grades, because what mattered was the content of my work. as long as it was presentable, my ideas were what counted.
Now I have grown up and gone to University, and to make matters worse, into a Master's degree. Then all at sudden my ideas are only relevant if I don't forget the dot after the "et al" (dot)... Does that make any sense?? I can see the importance of crediting sources and etc, but the precise space between the paragraphs, and the margin, and the length of the tab space... oh give me a break! I vote for the PPP rule: pretty, professional and presentable. Who cares if your subtitles are centralized or not? Looks PPP, then you're good. Just simple. Just like that.
Now the biggest joke is this: the latest edition of the APA manual is actually being recalled. Why, you ask me? Too many mistakes! LOL, not even them can get it right!! So why should I try? Vote for PPP!
Raquel - (Listening right now to Aerosmith: Dream on)
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