It describes two kinds of notes for documenting sources. I found a section with descriptions for formatting parenthetical notes (endnotes or footnotes) about cited sources. Hey, you’ve got to find excitement where you can. This is what came to mind when I was browsing through my copy of MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers: Seventh Edition. We are no long held only to the value of the information we consume, but also to the information that we pass on or produce. Today we are full participants in the information economy and this compels us to accept new responsibilities that have, in my opinion, become a part of what it is to be literate today – contemporary literacy. In another time, we were mere consumers of content. It is equally our responsibility to assure and document that the information we are producing is accurate, reliable, valid, and appropriate. it is now our ethical responsibility, as information consumers, to assure that the information you are using is accurate, reliable, valid, and appropriate to what we are trying the achieve. One element of this literacy is, in nature, ethical. I continue to read comments on my blog promoting the integration of technology, like tech is the goal, rather than an essential tool for accomplishing the goal of contemporary learning-literacy.

Is it a message that’s been received? I don’t think so. In fact, I’ve not been asked to talk about it at a conference in a number of months. Contemporary literacy is a subject I’ve not written about in a while.

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