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Just had a student correct me on citing a YouTube video in MLA format
I was teaching a gen ed class Wednesday and gave out my old template for citing online videos, but a freshman pulled up the Purdue OWL page showing the format changed in 2021. Apparently they now require the uploader name before the video title, and I've been doing it wrong for 3 years across dozens of handouts. Has anyone else run into citation rules that quietly got updated and made your old materials useless?
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leo5679d ago
Man I feel this. My whole department got caught out when APA quietly changed their in-text citation rules for direct quotes a couple years back. We had boxes of old handbooks sitting in the storage room. It's honestly kind of ridiculous how these style guides can just shift the goalposts mid-semester. Like who decided the uploader name needed to come first in MLA now anyway. Makes me wonder what other citation rules are gonna get silently swapped on us next year.
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oliver8119d ago
Honestly I still have a scar from when they changed the Chicago Manual rules for citing ebooks back in 2017. Everyone had to redo their footnotes three times that semester. Tbh it feels like these style guides are run by a committee of bored academics who just wanna stir up drama. Ngl I'm half expecting them to announce next year that you gotta cite the font size or something ridiculous.
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