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Chris -- 2025-05-10
“About once a year I get a student who asks whether the research paper must be written in “Emily format.” This was in response to someone who quoted a student writing about “Lehman’s terms” (layman’s).
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That’s a wonderful addition to our collection of Lehman’s terms. I use MLA but have never encountered this before—I’ll have to keep an ear out.
The thread you point to is also interesting to me as a writing instructor—people express a really broad range of attitudes towards discussing student errors online.
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