Hey did you all have to do that class in high school or college or maybe grad school where you learn research methods,

and it was really dry, and it was really tough to get through,

and it's usually a class that is meant to compliment

other stuff, and they teach you a few different,

how you call it, formats for how to do

notation and citation and your research work depending on what kind of discipline you were into

I know in my discipline there were a couple of different formats that people used and what happened

when I actually got into a class setting is the professor would usually be like

look I want you to basically use this format but I understand that that's always

evolving and that people have different preferences and that maybe you learned a

different system here's what I want from you just Just be consistent. Whatever it looks like is fine but if you put a

comma after the name of a book or you put the name of a book or an essay in italics every

time just do it every time because then I can tell what's going on

I kind of know what to expect from you as we're working on this stuff.

I was like, oh that's great, yeah just be consistent in my formatting.

Okay, and I've tried to do that sense. I don't know, I've probably been knocked

for it a few times and probably deservedly so. There's a thing. There was a time not so long ago where

consistency I think was very very highly valued not just in

academic paperwork but I mean in general that ethic that my professors were

communicating is something that we all went for and I feel like there was kind of this shared

cultural agreement where we said look you can be into stuff if it's a little different weird or have opinions that I'm not really into

but I can respect a person who is consistent within their set of

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