Really. Tell them to
have Microsoft or any number of other programs format those citations for them.
Although you may not guess it, interviews with SNL students indicate that they
spend an inordinate amount of time and energy worrying about how to format
their citations, time and energy that would be much better spent on developing
and organizing their ideas; researching, evaluating, and synthesizing sources;
and drawing conclusions.
Similarly, teachers
spend an inordinate amount of time teaching, correcting, and being frustrated
about students' formatting of citations. Time that would be better spent
giving students feedback that challenges them to develop, support and organize
their ideas.
As
the videos below indicate, students can use Microsoft Word to format their
citations and bibliography. The nice thing about this tool is that when
students enter the information for a source once, they do not have to enter it
again when they are working on a new paper. Similarly, Zotero is a free web-based
tool. To learn more about it, see http://libguides.depaul.edu/zotero
To share this
information with your students, send them to http://snl.depaul.edu/writing/Writing%20Help.html#helpsources
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