It’s easy to manage time when you know exactly how to get projects done. What if you don’t know where to go for resources? Motivation can significantly drop when you don’t know what you’re doing or how to do it. Research papers, especially, can be infuriating when the right resources just don’t seem to exist. Even when you feel you’ve finally made progress and have a few sources that relate to your topic, boom! Your teacher doesn’t think they’re reliable. How are you supposed to write a research paper when the only sources you can find just aren’t good enough? Well, perhaps you aren’t looking in all the right places.
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Over the decades, hundreds of different citation styles have been developed. Organizations such as the American Psychological Association (APA) or Modern Language Association (MLA) have attempted to standardize the format of their styles by creating style guides to make them easier to use (Gratz, 2016). The three main styles used in the United States are the APA, MLA, and Chicago styles. But why, after all these years, do we still use so many different citation formats? Why haven’t we come up with one universal, standardized style for every occasion? Read more to find out.
Late last Spring, two different professors of mine assigned major research papers for their classes. One paper needed to be four to six pages long with four outside sources, and the other needed to be five to seven pages long with five outside sources. Both made up a big chunk of my final grade, and both were assigned around the same timeframe. On top of that, I still had my weekly responsibilities to take care of: meetings every Tuesday night for my fraternity, rehearsals to plan and lead for my a Cappella group (also on Tuesday nights), sectionals to go to, a job to work at, all my other classes to attend, an exercise routine to uphold, and date night with my boyfriend (which, admittedly, I did my best not to cancel. Ever). That’s pretty overwhelming, right? Which event is more important than another? Which paper should I work on first? How much time should I expect each paper to take? It’s hard enough to start working on ONE daunting project, let alone two, and the phrase “free time” wasn’t even in my vocabulary before they were assigned. Well, unfortunately these projects had to get done, and I am not the kind of person to pull an all-nighter, so I took a deep breath and began to plan:
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