![]() Home for the heteronomous | "Get a job — and some human rights!" Wednesday, December 05, 2007Instructions to My Future Students: On Citing the DictionaryIf you find yourself writing, "According to the Mirriam-Webster College Dictionary, 5th edition..." in the course of an academic paper -- or even worse, "The Mirriam Webster College Dictionary, 5th edition, tells us..." -- you have gone badly astray. The only dictionary you are allowed to cite is the OED, which contains hidden lore. |
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