Odd question, but, what other way is there to do footnotes. My daughter is in 6th grade and we are to do a final draft of her report on an artist. Our rough draft came back with the teacher’s note that she did not want numbers on the final draft. I thought that is how you did footnotes (putting a number at the end of the words to indicate which informational source you took it from)and that is what my reference said also. Is there a different way?
Re: Foot notes-another way to do it?
Agree — that’s what Parkland College uses. (I remember getting a bit of red ink applied to my first college paper ‘cause I did superscript footnotes.)
http://citationmachine.net/ is the new address for a “citation machine” which lets you type in the information about your source and it will organize it according to MLA style. Since you have to type the stuff in, and then cut and paste, for some people it’s more work than just following a model and putting it in yourself but some of my students really like it.
My guess would be that the teacher is looking for an MLA style paper, which seems to be the form used at most colleges these days, and is the form my sons are expected to use when they write papers at their middle and high schools. Rather than footnoting, you use parenthetical citations in the text, with the autors last name and the page number on which you found the information. Then, in your works cited page (aka bibliography), you give the full citation.
Here’s a link you might find helpful for a much better explaination:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html