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Your intern knew plenty of what he spoke; you just didn't understand that his knowledge was for a different audience and context. Should the day arise when you want to go get an MA or PHD is Technical Communication, you'd be wise to ask his advice about style.
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Phil
On 16 Sep 2011, at 01:53, Chris Morton wrote:
> And *if *APA style, please understand that much of the real world doesn't
> adhere to it.
>
> Four years ago a freshly-minted PhD was assigned to oversee our five-person
> (software) technical writing department and had never heard of any style
> other than APA. He had certainly never heard of the *Chicago Manual of Style
> *, nor style guides published by Sun Microsystems, Apple Computer and
> Microsoft regarding sw documentation. It took weeks to convince him that he
> knew not of what he spoke.
>
> </peace out>
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Kaye Adkins <kadkinsphd -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Teacher speaking here--ask for clarification.
>>
>> I'm guessing that what's going on here is something like APA style. In APA,
>> page 1 is a title page that includes title, author, organization, etc. The
>> number may or may not appear on this. (Personally, I don't make my students
>> fight with Word, and I let them show the running header with the page
>> number.) The text of the paper/report/project begins on page 2.
>>
>> Kaye Adkins
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>>> In two classes that I'm taking, we've been given specific formats for our
>>> projects... and they always start on page 2, with the cover page being
>>> considered as page one. I've asked both teachers about this, and they
>> both
>>> feel that this is the way it's always been done.
>>>
>>> Since when has a cover page been considered page 1? I've noticed in Word
>> 10
>>> that it takes a ton of finessing to get the first real page to be
>> paginated
>>> as page 1, that it's automatically determined that the cover page is page
>> 1.
>>>
>>> When did this change take place? and why? And why does Word enforce it
>> so?
>>>
>>> -becca
>>>
>>>
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