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Originally Posted by Krystl
Sil, you are most correct and I completely agree when that format is used in the text, but not all texts use that form of formatting (sections). That is a style popular by some but not all academic fields or texts used in academics. Not using it, however, is not a sign of "bad writing" or a bad academic text. A lecturer uses page numbers as well as section numbers in lectures--especially in the humanities (think literature books, philospohy books--they are not written in the style of a research paper) where there are no sections to quote from (think oh, Pride and Prejudice--simply because it is on almost every e-book shown in adverts) and it may be faster. I have known many professors with very different styles of "citing", as pertains to the style of text currently used (academic lecturing does also use "citing" despite the belief it does not because it is not writing).
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I guess that we have a difference in perspective because my field is physics. Organizing the text in sections and subsections is essential, and I rely on it more than page numbers. During lectures, we are shown figures rather than text from books, and the figure number relates to the chapter and subchapter in the book.