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Originally Posted by Catlady
I still want to know what grammar manuals were filled with these pronouncements.
Academic writing is a specialized form of writing with more stringent rules.
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It was one of the more backward MLA Handbooks. It had just added a section on citing "online services" when I graduated in 2000, and still didn't have anything for citing internet articles.
Katsunami- Using "its" exclusively is still a bit of a typing quirk of mine. It comes from me preferring to be wrong less than half the time (since "it's" doesn't show up much outside of dialog), than 100% of the time. Like I said, some of that big hoopla the school made over grammar might've been to induce nervous breakdowns.