I am perennially fascinated/horrified by the interest questions pertaining to APA style seem to generate. They just seem to me to be of about the same level of scholarly import as are, say, fights over whether the toilet paper should go over or under the roll.
Sure, students need to be familiar with stylistic issues, but the details of any stylistic prescription rank so far below, well, just about everything else, from an intellectual perspective... The level of drill and perfection required by some astonishes me. (Full disclosure: I was once an APA style maven, but then I started writing for journals that required other styles, and I gradually realized what a wasteful and arbitrary matter most of it is.) I think this Onion piece puts things nicely in perspective (and notice that APA isn't even a "player"). http://www.theonion.com/articles/4-copy-editors-killed-in-ongoing-ap-style-chicago,30806/ Discussion? Retribution? Chris ----- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 Canada [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=22742 or send a blank email to leave-22742-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
