Wow! Thanks for your response Tania. I'll have to mull over this one
for awhile. And thank you for an opportunity to skip out and take a
well needed break from dissertation writing!. glo
uoting Sandy Dorley <[log in to unmask]>:
> 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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