Improper citation ☝️🤓
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2025
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This isn't even correct.
And even if it was it would be a bad citation at it significantly changed the context
All citations must be in the form of memes.
"Yes" ^1^
- Lastname, Me (2023). Part 3. In A Book of Things I Wrote Just to Cite Them (37th ed., Vol. 1, pp. 1–100). story, Me Publishing.
I once argued this with my teacher in Uni.
"Do I have to find a quote of someone saying it if I say the sky is blue? Do I have to reference my parents when I put my name at the top of the page?"
Unsurprisingly, he said I was being obtuse.
"No"^1
1 No
I think he cited the wrong source. Technically William Shakespeare was plagiarizing that from someone before him
This issue is clarified in the second part of the next footnote. ^(See 2b)^