How old are you, and were you taught how to cite your sources in high school?
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I was born in 1987. In high school (California) I was required to cite sources on my papers, strict format with exact page numbers, only published works - NO INTERNET - were allowed.
So we’d find things on early Wikipedia, use that to write the paper, track down their citations, find the book on early Amazon, find a quote that supported whatever we needed on the preview pages, cite the book. Win.
I’m wondering if later students were still taught these same rules to “cite your sources”? Was it still in this professional style, like author, title, year, etc. (not just “here’s a link to a blog”)? I feel like I maybe only see that now in academic research papers.
Rockglen@reddit
Born '83
I don't remember having to cite sources in high school, but I think I knew the concept at the time.
Definitely had to cite sources in college.
TinyRandomLady@reddit
I’m 42, went to middle and high school (1995-2002) in northern Virginia and yes we were taught to cite our sources using the MLA or Chicago Manual style. Teachers had different preferences.
AuntieWatermelon@reddit
born in 1995. i think i remember being taught how to cite sources and do bibliographies in like 6th grade? we were allowed to use the internet but i remember a lot of teachers saying we weren’t allowed to use wikipedia as a source. i usually would go to the cited sources from wikipedia and use those. used books sometimes but rarely lol.
PopcornApocalypse@reddit (OP)
So crazy because Wikipedia is honestly STILL a better source than a lot of books.
inbigtreble30@reddit
What are you talking about? Wikipedia is an excellent source aggregator; it's a terrible source.
Acceptable_Tea3608@reddit
Back in the day, 20 years ago Wiki WASN'T a very good source. There were still encyclopedias around and they were better.
iowanaquarist@reddit
"still" and "then" are very different. 20 years ago wiki was much less reliable and reputable.
phantomsteel@reddit
Also 95. We couldn't cite Wikipedia directly but there was nothing wrong with using the primary/secondary citations we found there.
Not sure what you mean by saying wiki is a better source than books. The source material you cite is just a means to try and validate your thesis. You can either agree with what the Wiki says or refute it and it's up to you to write a coherent paper supporting your position.
alicelestial@reddit
same, born 1996 and we learned in 5th or 6th grade how to do it properly. then every major paper i wrote from then on into college needed to be cited. we used APA style 99% of the time, i think i used MLA twice in college for science classes.
Bibliospork@reddit
I'm 46, graduated mid-90s. I learned how to write a proper source bibliography (and also in-line and footnote annotations) in high school and we did a less formalized version before that. I think people who don't get taught at least the basics of sourcing before college are being done a disservice.
Kelly_Louise@reddit
I was born in 1991, we started learning how to cite our sources in fifth grade, MLA format. I clearly remember citing physical books and encyclopedias, even in 8th grade when we had more access to the internet. In high school I remember starting to use the online generators that made it so much easier. But yes, it was taken very seriously and on every research paper we were expected to cite our sources in proper format. In college, I think we used both MLA and APA format. I don’t remember it being very hard to learn how to do the APA format on my own.
itsmebrian@reddit
When I first started writing papers with references, few people had computers. Most had typewriters with spell correction, if they were lucky. We initially learned to use footnotes and moved to endnotes, both using Latin such as ibid.
I don't remember which format was used. Once in college, we moved to APA.
PopcornApocalypse@reddit (OP)
I’ve needed typewriters as props for theater a few times. People used to make fun of millennials for not knowing what records are (even though plenty of us had them) but I really didn’t know how little I knew about typewriters until that moment. I’m still not really sure how to even load the 40 lb thing. Felt like Zoolander with the Macs. 😂
Was spell correction just “delete”?? And what’s ibid??
GertyFarish11@reddit
"ibid" is latin, I believe. In Chicaog Manual Style, using footnotes and citing the same source twice or more in a row, rather than repeat the complete citation [author, title, date of publication, etc.], ibid is used.
So, it would look like this except the number is in superscript, i.e. tiny and raised [and I'm going from memory so this is an approximation, I probably have things in the wrong order]:
1 Johnson, Mary Sue. Science Fiction Tropes, Tor Books, 1974, pgs 12 - 13.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Kirk, James T. Captions Log, Federation Database, Star Date 178403.489,
Ibid
Acceptable_Tea3608@reddit
There were typewriters With the auto correct tape in them on a spool. Your just hit the correction key to correct. These were IBM Selectric ii typewriters.
itsmebrian@reddit
The response below is exactly what ibid is. If you check out https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/latin-terms-and-abbreviations/ and scroll down to citation shortcuts, you can see what some of the abbreviations are.
As far as spell check, it's more than what u/GertyFarish11 mentioned below. At the tail end of typewriters, probably the last five years or so, some modern typewriters had an LCD screen that would show you what was about to go on the page. It would highlight suspected errors, similar to Word's squiggly red line. I would not call it a computer per se, but more akin to an advanced graphing calculator but with a focus on writing. If you search Amazon.com for Royal Scriptor II Typewriter, that's a good albeit expensive example.
Adorable-Growth-6551@reddit
We had one of these. Thought we were really fancy
NPHighview@reddit
Born in the 1950s, went to high school from 1969 to 1973.
Citations were taught starting in 1st year of H.S., and we were shown the card catalog in the school library. We were expected to provide at least 10 citations for any paper, and encouraged to consult public libraries as well.
Strunk and White was the style guide, with allusions to the Chicago Manual of Style.
MamaLlama629@reddit
We were taught to cite MLA style and I haven’t the slightest clue now how to do it. But yeah, same basic experience. Except we could use the internet as a source as long as it wasn’t Wikipedia. Online news stories and journal articles…that sort of thing. But we used Wikipedia the same way.
I graduated in 2006 in Oregon
Practical_Goose_5842@reddit
I'm 20. In my freshman highschool classes I started learning how to cite sources properly with MLA format. We touched the topic again a few times over the years but no one really understood how to properly cite or even use quotes so the teacher stopped pushing for it so much. We mostly went online to .org or .gov websites and copy/pasted onto our papers, put quotes around it, and called it a day
madcatzplayer5@reddit
Y’all sound so dumb to me. We learned MLA to a science in 6th grade and every paper we wrote after that had to be formatted correctly and have at least 3-10 sources all cited and sourced correctly. This is so sad. Am 33.
Acceptable_Tea3608@reddit
They really didn't push that before the last 25 to 30 years. Why, IDK. was never necessary before except for certain teachers.
Zeverian@reddit
Im 50, we had to do all that and type it with a typewriter or word processor (physical not software) if you were rich.
PopcornApocalypse@reddit (OP)
You only had one teacher that asked for sources? For us it was history, English, science, pretty much any nonfiction writing.
That’s kind of sad that one teacher gave up on you guys so easily tbh.
StormFallen9@reddit
Yeah pretty much only English courses cared about writing papers. All the others just had a test about the info. I had to write a few papers in high school and college and pretty much same thing - MLA format usually, can't use cites like Wikipedia, just find a published paper (depending on subject could be from news sources like New York Times or be from other official, preferably peer-reviewed sources)
Quote what you need, throw the URL into Citation Machine and put that onto your citation page
Cheap_Coffee@reddit
It doesn't speak well for that school system, does it?
getElephantById@reddit
I'm 45, and we were taught Chicago style citations in high school. Internet citations were allowed, but I think I only ever used one—I graduated in 1999, so it wasn't that much of a factor. I only remember because of how strange it looked at the time to see a long URL printed out on a paper.
eyeroll611@reddit
High school English teacher. Still teaching this.
Tricky_Jellyfish9116@reddit
I'm your age and also learned to include a bibliography starting around age 10, and to use a citation format (MLA, mostly) in high school. I also learned an index-card research system for tracking and organizing ideas.
My 15-year-old niece is supposed to use MLA format for her school papers, too, but she goes to a private school, and most of her research is internet-based. The school doesn't have a library.
h4baine@reddit
Born in 86 and was required to cite sources in MLA format. I was super annoyed when I realized I had to use APA format for my major in college because I had MLA down by that point.
SnowblindAlbino@reddit
I'm 20 years older than OP and we were required to use Turabian (i.e. Chicago style) footnotes from middle school through high school.
I'm also a college professor, so I've seen the rapid collapse of abilities among American high school students over the last 5-7 years. It's shocking really...COVID did a number on a few cohorts, but now AI cheating and laziness has basically rendered a big portion of American teens unable to perform basic intellectual tasks. Some high schools have clearly just given up, so I have freshmen reporting they never read a book in high school nor wrote anything on their own longer than a paragraph, yet they have 3.50 GPAs to get into college.
spitfire451@reddit
In high school we were forced to use MLA when writing essays. MLA is the worst citation style because it is so verbose. In grad school I used IEEE exclusively because it is the most compact.
Certain-Monitor5304@reddit
S4ntos19@reddit
I'm 24 and I did learn how but have never once used this information in real life.
manicpixidreamgirl04@reddit
I was born in 2000, and was taught to cite all sources in MLA format.
iowanaquarist@reddit
No, I was not taught to cite sources in high school. In high school, the work would be rejected and marked incomplete without sources. In junior high, we were docked points. We were taught to cite sources in elementary school.
dgillz@reddit
64 and yes, we were taught this. No internet help though obviously.
MountainTomato9292@reddit
My middle and high school kids are still taught to do that now.
CupBeEmpty@reddit
43 and yes.
I forget which citation style we used but we did papers with citations.
Where citations really got drilled into me was law school. It’s almost like a religion there.
Good citations and good use of case law is critical.
Whatever court you practice in has a slightly different formatting style but will usually have their best practices written down somewhere. Certain judges may also have specific preferences too.
Serious-Mongoose-387@reddit
Learned MLA and APA style in high school in the 90s and Chicago style in college in the 00s. Got my master’s in history and they were super mega strict about Chicago style everything.
KW5625@reddit
I had Encarta on CD from late 94 and tried to use it a few times, I met resistance until around 1997... we were not allowed to use the internet as a source up until high school when one day in 2000 the teacher took us to the lab and said, "this is Encarta dot com, it's an encyclopedia... but on the internet".
sneezhousing@reddit
High school learned MLA that was in the 90's
astralTacenda@reddit
graduated high school in 2015. started learning MLA and how to put together a basic Works Cited in 6th grade (age 12). by the time I was in high school i was quite familiar with the process, and by the time i graduated i rarely needed to look up formatting.
but i also went to an IB school that entire time and was taught with the intention of being able to write those papers and take those tests, so my experience was definitely not that of my peers in the same school district.
BlueEyedSpiceJunkie@reddit
Born 1985 and yes, we absolutely were taught. Doing it properly and choosing sources of real scholarly value were a big part of a paper’s grade.
MechanicalGodzilla@reddit
The internet did not really exist in the same way when I was in high school. Wikipedia launched when I was a senior in college, so that was not really an option. I also didn’t really write “papers” outside of technical topics, so I used the IEEE style for citations
TrixieLurker@reddit
1972, so there was no Internet to use, may as well cite my sources as required as I usually had to go tot he library (school or city) to find my information directory anyway.
linkxrust@reddit
I just used books man. I dont got time to waste on the net to do all that shit. I was born in 83
Shot_Construction455@reddit
52 and absolutely taught and required to cite my sources. MLA and APA until law school and the blue book.
am123_20@reddit
Born in 2000. We had online tools to help us, but we still learned to cite sources with all the titles, names, publication info, etc. Throughout my schooling, I've used multiple different citation formats, including MLA, Chicago, APA, and AAA. Basically, yes, I learned to cite and format sources, and all of my teachers/professors were very adamant about using it correctly.
Traditional_Entry183@reddit
Im 48, and the internet was barely a thing when I was in high school. We were specifically taught how to cite sources from various materials, and were graded on it.
In college I was generally forbidden from citing anything online.
Adorable-Growth-6551@reddit
Hahaha i saw 1987 and thought you were saying that was when you were in Highschool and wondering how you had Wikipedia and Amazon. I was so confused
Hms-chill@reddit
I was born in ‘97; we learned MLA style in 4th grade and again high school and I used Chicago style in college. In elementary I know they taught us the actual ways to format everything, but by high school it was “use this online citing tool and plug in the info”. By college, I could drop a link to a website into a citing site, and I used Microsoft Word’s built in citing tool for everything else.
CraftFamiliar5243@reddit
I am 67, graduated HS in 1977. I wrote a term paper in AP English and we cited sources in the academic style with footnotes and a full bibliography. My dad had his secretary type it for me. He owned the business.
IthurielSpear@reddit
Older Gen X (so most younger people think I’m a boomer lol). Yes. Taught to cite sources in California high school (Bay Area)
The0wl0ne@reddit
I’m 25, I remember starting out having to do those bibliography cards for everything. I really hated those. Later it became easier with just in text citations and references lists.
sammysbud@reddit
1997 here- I was in middle school when they taught us MLA. We had to do it manually a few times the they just let us use citation generators online. We used the Internet to research, but had to make sure the source was credible (no Wikipedia). We could use other websites though if they were educational.
I used MLA all through college whether the prof allowed it or not (never affected my grade). It wasn’t until grad school that I started using Chicago. It seems like the few Gen Z undergrads that I interact with have a better understanding of the different styles of citations than me lol.
crimson_leopard@reddit
I'm in my early thirties and was taught how to cite books and websites. Wikipedia wasn't allowed, but you could use it as a guide and reference the actual sources listed at the bottom.
We definitely were taught MLA and APA format in a few English and history classes starting in middle school through college. I specifically remember there were websites you could use and it would create the refernce page for you in the correct APA or MLA format and i think there were other formats. I don't work in an environment where I need to cite sources like this, so I really don't remember the details.
_nousernamesleft_@reddit
Born in '93 (CT) and starting in probably 7th grade we needed an MLA works cited (though in 7th and 8th grade it was probably only required for 1 or 2 assignments per year). In high school it was required on many more assignments though probably not on every assignment. Usually there was a certain number of sources required including at least one book.
I have taught high school since '15 and in every school I've taught at (CT and MA), MLA citations are still taught and required for most research projects in English and History classes (the psych classes do generally teach APA though). I assume the science classes also do citations though I'm not sure what style they use.
AlternativeWild3449@reddit
I was taught the basics of citation back in high school in the early 60's, and as a published writer, I applied those principles throughout my career.
After retiring from my first career, I moved into a second career as a technical editor. Back in the 'naughts', we were told that the internet wasn't a reliable source. In particular, citing Wikipedia was discouraged 'because it isn't peer reviewed'. That may be true in the sense that there is no formal 'peer review process', but I would argue that today, there are more eyes on the typical Wikipedia article that there are on things that received a classical 'peer review'. If incorrect information is posted in Wikipedia, it is likely that someone will recognize it and make a correction.
But in general, we are experiencing an evolution, and today, the internet has become the primary source for most information. There is stuff on the internet that cannot be found in any physical publication. So my view is that there must be a citation to a specific, identifiable source, but its less irrelevant whether it is on paper or digital.
Today, I think the greater concern is for the impact of AI - specifically in the sense that what AI composes a summary of applicable tidbits on information found on the internet, but with limited validation of the sources for that information. My sense is that when you ask an AI engine a question, you get the most popular answer and not necessarily the best and most thoughtful answer.
CraftyFraggle@reddit
I’m older than you. Most of my paper writing was pre-internet.
So yes, I knew how to properly cite my sources.
Now, students are often just taught how to use sites like MyBib or EasyBib to do it for them.
MacaroonSad8860@reddit
I’m older than you and yes. I think we were taught Chicago style but I might be misremembering that and could’ve learned it later. As an adult I’ve had to use Chicago and legal Blue Book style in jobs.
tangledbysnow@reddit
Im in my 40s. I was going for a science degree for a while and nearly all my college prep in high school was science but I love (loved) history so took AP classes on those too. I know for a fact we were taught APA, Chicago and MLA. I also know we used mostly MLA for everything where I went to high school.
PopcornApocalypse@reddit (OP)
I’d never heard of Chicago or Blue Book before. Unless that’s where Kelly Blue Book comes from?
grassesbecut@reddit
No, there is a Blue Book of citation for legal work. The Kelley Blue Book used to be a book published annually, but is now online that tells approximate fair market values for used cars.
Chicago Style is a form of citation that requires the writing of footnotes at the bottom of each page of a paper citing the works used when writing that specific page, and then a bibliography at the end of the document.
Then there's MLA and APA formats as the next most common ways of writing papers. MLA being from the Modern Language Association, and APA being the American Psychological Association.
SufficientProject273@reddit
Huh.. we never were taught "styles". Just this is how you cite and anything else is wrong.
SuperPomegranate7933@reddit
I couldn't think of the name, thank you! We used MLA format.
MacaroonSad8860@reddit
It’s possible we were taught MLA, I can’t remember. I went into social sciences so I typically use Chicago now
Party_Seesaw798@reddit
i feel that bro high school was all about that struggle
TrainingLow9079@reddit
I went to high school in the 90s. We were taught to cite as in always name authors, use quotation marks for exact words, have a bibliography, etc. But they didn't emohasize particular styles like MLA or APA. In fact back then didn't have to learn MLA until graduate school.
SufficientProject273@reddit
83. I didnt even have Wikipedia. Online sources were considered unreliable. Had to be physical books from the library
Fieryfight@reddit
I'm 33 and was taught to cite my sources but by the time I actually had to write papers that required cited sources I figured out how to make word automatically cite for me so I definitely wouldn't be able to do it manually today.
WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit
Old enough that the internet as we know it did not exist. I learned to use the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (biiiig hardcopy books) in 7th grade, it was a required part of the curriculum in New York State at the time, and it included how to do citations for the periodicals therein.
sideshow--@reddit
Older millennial here. They taught us (kind of) in high school and I recall we used MLA style. It’s very simple and easy: just author, title, publisher, year, and page number. They weren’t very exacting and so long as you could identify the book and page number it was fine. The teacher knew the books you were citing to generally anyway. It wasn’t too exacting. Similar in college and graduate school.
Once I got to law school everything changed. Bluebook citations to the letter, and if you got so much as a period or a comma in the wrong place, or too many spaces, you got marked off. To get on journals and when you’re on law review you have mad To spend spend lots of time ensuring your citations are bluebook perfect.
Ph4ntorn@reddit
I was born in ‘82 and went to school in Pennsylvania. We learned to document our sources and weren’t allowed to use the internet at first. But, before I graduated high school, we were allowed to cite internet sources too.
We were always discouraged from citing Wikipedia, but we were also discouraged from citing paper encyclopedias. The point was to go a bit deeper than an encyclopedia summary.
Bluemonogi@reddit
I am 51 years old. I was taught to cite sources in high school. The internet wasn’t a thing people were using when I was in high school.
No-Contact6664@reddit
High school? No
We were expected to know all this in college with no advanced prep.
wieldymouse@reddit
We were taught MLA citation in junior high and high school (late 80s/early 90s). I was taught Chicago style, APA, and AAA at university.
firerosearien@reddit
40, yes, and some internet sources were allowed (things like new york times, ap, cia world factbook)
Poolcreature@reddit
I’m 31 and it was beaten into me from all angles—parents, school, church—to always cite my sources. Once, as a punishment, my mom had me watch a documentary on tsunamis and hand write a paper about what I learned. Then, I was further punished with no dessert after dinner because I didn’t cite the documentary.
I’m an editor now.
JohnMarstonSucks@reddit
I'm 48, we didn't cite things in high school. In college we were told to do footnotes.
Wak3upHicks@reddit
Born in 85 but I dropped out in 10th grade. I didn't mess with source citing until college
CycadelicSparkles@reddit
I'm a year younger than you. We learned similarly.
machagogo@reddit
Younger than high school when I first had to cite. Maybe 7th grade? I don't recall the formats required. The internet was barely a thing, talking Prodigy days in the mid to late 80s so "no internet" wasn't a concept
Been decades since I graduated college and I didn't do a whole lot of advanced research there either.
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Imaginary_Ladder_917@reddit
Graduated in 1987. It was all books and magazines at that point, and we used MLA citation. My daughter is 20. She used citations throughout high school and now college. Now that so much research is done online, usually the online source has a button to click to add the citation. You choose the correct citation type for whatever class the paper is for.
WhatABeautifulMess@reddit
I’m year younger than you and I learned it middle school but there was already multiple citation generator websites that would do it for you by the time I was in high school. I did MLA til college and then college I had to use MLA, APA, and Chicago styles, depending on the course.
Revolutionary_Bit_38@reddit
Born 1991 Taught MLA citing
synterfire@reddit
Wrote my first research paper in the 3rd grade, 1992/93, on comets, and we used MLA then through high school. Once in college, we used APA.
TheBimpo@reddit
10 years older than you. We were not allowed to use the Internet at all. We were taught Chicago style, spent all day in the library, looking at everything from magazines to microfilm.
OneNerdyLesbian@reddit
I’m in my early 30s, and we were taught MLA citation. I had to use it from middle school all the way through college (where I was an English major).
We could use internet sources. In fact, that was the majority of our sources, but the internet sources still had to be properly cited in MLA format.
Abi1i@reddit
Nice-Contest1499@reddit
You learn to cite your sources in high school in the US? WOW.
I am from Croatia and we don't do it in high school, only in college.
Quirky-Invite7664@reddit
Graduated high school in 1986.
No. Learned in college.
Jealous-Lychee-5084@reddit
Yes, but I graduated HS in 1986 so put it in perspective. I also taught HS and taught students to cite correctly. I left teaching for a while, went back late 90s, and was told by other teachers to give it up.
I don’t know - all that formality is t probably necessary for HS but the understanding of why cite and how to do it is something kids should know. It’s part of critical thinking: who is saying this? What’s their authority? Should I trust this information?
leavesandgrassart@reddit
Im 26 and yes. Had to cite sources using MLA format for all of my big papers throughout high school and college. We were allowed to cite online sources as long as they were legitimate (like research papers for example). We were allowed to use generators like the citation machine to create our bibliographies, so I have never typed one out myself. You just input your sources and all the info and the website created it for you.
Clear_Task3903@reddit
born in the 80's and nope not at all
MadeEntirelyOfFlaws@reddit
1984, schooled in california from preschool through undergrad. STRICT citations always required. i had teachers that would take off points if citations weren’t proper down to the punctuation.
Quix66@reddit
I am a generation older than you, and yes, we did have to decide our sources in high school. However, the format was not as strictly done as the ones I learned in college.
Last-Radish-9684@reddit
I'm 73F, and I absolutely had to cite sources. They were much more difficult to locate in a rural area in the late 1960s, btw.
HotButteredPoptart@reddit
I'm the same age as you. I never did anything in highschool that required me to cite a source.
Adjective-Noun123456@reddit
Born in '93.
Looking at the different styles, I'm pretty confident we were taught MLA.
OptatusCleary@reddit
Yes, I learned to do formal citations in English class in high school in California.
I am a high school teacher in California and we still teach this. Most English classes teach MLA style, some social sciences classes might use APA.
holymacaroley@reddit
Born in 1973. We were taught how to do a bibliography on papers. No internet was accessible to us in the late 80s early 90s, so that wasn't applicable.
Copper-Alchemist@reddit
I'm 46 and I've had to, can't remember the "style" I had to use. Last time I had to do it was in highschool
IPreferDiamonds@reddit
I'm 58. Yes, I was taught how to cite my sources.
BaseClean@reddit
I'm 51 and yes. Taught it freshman year of high school. Of course that was before the internet so it makes sense.
Level_Mastodon_8657@reddit
I am 70. I learned Chicago style, MLA, APA, and Bluebook for some of my legal work.
kinnikinnick321@reddit
I'm about ten years older than you, California public educated K-12. I learned this as early as fifth grade.
beamerpook@reddit
I was born a few years before you were, and yes I absolutely had to cite my sources in the MLS way
Ugh, so glad I no longer have to write thesis paper that require thi.bullshit
Buga99poo27GotNo464@reddit
Yes. 80s. Library. College more specific. Better library resources, computers just for finding some articles, not really seeing them, had to go find the hardcopy. I don't think scientific evidence is valued anymore in general. I think it's become devalued due to lesser school systems than ours incapable of teaching young people basic research skills and the importance of proper citations. When I got my masters in the South in the early 90s, I had to help teach my classmates basic library/citation skills, tho all were passed with decent grades despite poor research/essentially illegal citations. My take has been, if it's too difficult for an American to even try to accomplish or teach, it must be wrong.
reyadeyat@reddit
Early 30s. I was taught to cite sources (usually using MLA, I think) beginning in early middle school. We were taught to carefully evaluate whether or not a website was a reliable source of information and to strongly prefer books, newspapers, research articles, etc.
NegotiationStatus727@reddit
Had to name the source like 4th to 8th grade. Learned MLA in 9th grade. Learned Chicago style in 11th grade. This would have been 2010s. Reputable online sources were allowed but this mostly meant pulling quotes from the preview on Google scholar.
TownZealousideal1327@reddit
Looking at the general discourse around politics and media, belief systems and social issues in the US… I’m quiet confident the majority of you have nfi about reputable sources let alone citing.
erilaz7@reddit
I'm 60, and I remember learning this in high school in Central California in the early 1980s. I don't recall which style we were taught, though.
mrggy@reddit
I'm about 10 years younger than you. We were required to formally cite sources from middle school. Online itation generators existed by then, so we mostly just used those. In college, I was requires to learn to write citations by hand (as in we literally had paper and pencil quizes about it). It was actually so useful. It's so much faster to just write the citation yourself than to use a citation generator
1nfam0us@reddit
I am in my thirties and I was taught how to make a basic bibliography in high school, but not how to do in-text citations. I was, however, taught how to reference information through a discursive reference to the source. I think the format I learned was roughly MLA. I remember using an online citation maker tool because I could never get the format right myself.
It wasn't until college that I leaned a specific style and how to do citations on my own.
Odd-Significance-17@reddit
i’m ten years younger than you and yes but just barely, i think it stopped being emphasized while i was in high school
joeinsyracuse@reddit
I had assigned my students (college music majors) to do a paper on the history of the instrument they played. One student used only one internet source. Unfortunately, the site was created by an enthusiastic amateur who had no real knowledge and virtually everything was wrong.
Phoenix_Court@reddit
Yes. In high school I was taught MLA. Unfortunately it was not helpful because in college I had to use APA.
Ok-Process7612@reddit