Maggie and I both went to ‘good’ girls schools so maybe that has something to do with the prevalence of history courses, much better than math at any rate. I almost didn’t get into medicine because my math was so bad I had to take summer school, never again.

Well… technically my ideas about citation don’t make it improper per se. 😉 If you still cite them in the agreed format with all the relevant information and accurate quotations and paraphrasing no one would be able to tell if you have actually read all the books or not. I get away with it all the time at uni, with all the anti-plagiarism software we have to put it through before we can submit any assignment.

Anyway, don’t listen to me, you be a good student and do it the right way, I’m a bad influence.

LOL the principal at my school was actually pretty cool. I got to know her pretty well since I was sent to her office so often for letting down the tires of teachers cars, putting flour on the ceiling fans and getting caught in… ah compromising positions while ‘studying’ in the library 😆 She used to roll her eyes whenever she saw me coming and had that “what have you done now” look that my mother is so good at.

The concept that benieth all the plaid catholic school girls are badder than public school girls probably has some merit. Our skirts are just longer… from 9-3 anyway.

You could get away with what the authors of “Born Gay” did (sorry I can’t recall their names offhand) which is to present the info for the ‘avrage reader’ but reciognise the sources in footnotes or endnotes which don’t interfere with the flow of the text. It means the same amount of work for you but easier on the reader. Unfortunalty if you don’t cite any sources its classified as plagarism because no one would be able to tell if they are your ideas or those of some high ranked psychologist. Also, while the book may be a gold-mine for the target audience it couldn’t be used in any academic studies at universities or bible colleges, even for assignments because they are seen as ‘unreliable’ when not sourced, the same reason websites are a no-no.

Sounds like a great idea to me, the easier to understand it is the more people who are likely to read it, or better yet, actually understand it. I guess the crisis then becomes the does simplicity always have to be at the expense of depth and critical analysis?

😆 sorry getting side tracked. I need to stop studying and start working or my brain goes around in endless circles like this.

Unless you happen to have written the paper yourself I think communication is a problem for all of us. I am eternally grateful to all those authors who write ‘dumbed down’ versions of classic works like ‘Human sexuality’ by Masters and Johnson which in its original form reads like a medical journal and I understand about three words.

But without academics, however painful the expression, we wouldn’t have all this wonderful depth of knowledge that we do on so many topics. Someone has got to do it, we are just lucky the lot didn’t fall to us. 😆