Re: Documentation

[Judy Estabrook <ESTABROK@SLAB.UNT.EDU>]

Having been a high school English teacher for several years and a
community college freshman English teacher fairly recently, I believe
that the colleges and even specific departments within the colleges
will teach whatever documentation method they want their students to
use.  That should take the pressure off of high school teachers,
whose job is to teach students how to take material that is not their
own, weave it together, and to give credit for it in a systematic
way.  Students should be taught to follow the guide that is used in
their school--be it high school, college, or grad. school.  We all
know that documentation styles change, and the student who has been
out of high school for ten years or more was taught a different
method of documentation anyway and will need to learn whatever method
is currently used.