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I have seen students do some odd things in their bibliographies with such frequency that I am sure it cannot be a coincidence. But I am not sure where they are getting these practices from.<\/p>\n

The strangest part is the tendency, when citing online sources, to repeat the title of the article, web page, or blog post a second time in italics, as though it were the title of a book or journal from which the article was taken.<\/p>\n

But there are other oddities \u2013 for instance, the tendency to\u00a0add \u201cn.d.\u201d (not dated), often even if the article or blog post has a date.<\/p>\n

Any idea where students are picking up these very odd bad habits?<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is the same place they learned to say \u201cbased off of\u201d instead of \u201cbased on\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

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