Ars Technica ran a story today about "print no longer being the default" for MLA citations. I guess print really will some day go the way of the dodo. The biggest change the article covered was that URLs are no longer necessary for online sources. I guess we no longer need "stable URLs" a la JSTOR. I suppose this makes it easier for everyone, from students such as ourselves to the code masters of archives who no longer have to be concerned with implementing such systems. The habit is kind of ingrained, though! Will I be penalized for including URLs?
So, what's the procedure in academic circles? Is the new MLA immediate law - thus it is written, thus it shall be done? (Sorry, I watched The Ten Commandments over the weekend.) Or can professors choose to take a while to "catch up"?
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