Traditionally title pages of papers were not numbered--just as you wouldn't
number the title page of a book. But the style is changing, I think. One
reason is that computers rule, and a lot of users wouldn't know how to tell
their wordprocessors to number as page one what the software counts as the
2nd page of of the document. In short, there are two ways of looking at
this: one makes sense to the human mind which is capable of perceiving the
title page as not a real page; the other makes sense to the software, which
has not been programmed for such subtlety.
Boo, hiss!
At 12:50 PM 10/4/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>We have found a discrepancy in the information we are giving students at
>my college. We have been telling them to number their documents,
>beginning on the SECOND page of text. That means that there are no
>numbers on either the first page or on the title page. We teach them
>APA documentation format.
>
>However, we have discovered that according to strict APA, numbering
>starts with the title page and continues thereon. The MLA style manual,
>however, says that page numbering should begin with the first page, but
>can be changed according to "teacher preference." For some reason, we
>have all been told, in our own education, NOT to number the title or
>first page of the papers we turned in.
>
>What is the accepted style? These students are in business classes and
>in technology classes. I realize that we have probably gotten two
>styles mixed up, but we want them to do what is generally accepted.
>
>Professor Sandy Dorley
>School of Liberal Studies
>Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON
>519-748-5220 x3819
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>Professor Sandy Dorley
>School of Liberal Studies
>Conestoga College, Kitchener, ON
>519-748-5220 x3819
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