Citing Sources

[IsmAvatar]

Disclaimer of Citation:
The preceding information's reliability is upon yourself. I present the information as I have found it and expect it to be reliable, and refuse to entertain the silly idea of "citing sources." Go cite your own sources. The information is out there, stop being lazy and find it yourself. If you find that the information I have presented is faulty, feel free to prove it and I'll change my views to be in your agreement. When you're making your argument, I may even take it upon myself to research sources that prove your point.


I've noticed how schools often over-emphasise a student to present their own researched citations when presenting information. The above is my responce. Anyone have their own views on the matter?

Please, don't start flaming teachers, school board, school, etc. Keep it somewhat civil.

[Xenith]

the way you worded everything kinda confused me ism, i was waiting for someone else to post here so maybe i could understand, but so far noones posted, so if you don't mind can you rephrase?

[edit] i wnet over it again, and i think i get it, you're saying that people can't get the info by them selves and they have to quote someone, and a teacher wants you to cite your source but you don't want to because you got the info on your own?

;D i probably didn't understand you right or even answer you right.

[IsmAvatar]

No, I'm saying that teachers ask us to cite our sources because they're too lazy to look it up on their own. If a topic interests someone and they want evidence, rather than asking for the person to provide evidence, they should go out and look it up on their own.

Occasionally, I can understand, evidence can be hard to find. Like in cases of adult-child sex, most information is heavily biased towards the Abusive relationship, and there is very little information available on relationships where no harm was done. As such, if you are trying to defend the actions, it might be a good idea to provide your own evidence, because it would be hard for someone to actually find evidence then - if they go searching for it they'll probably just come across a lot of hysteria and pedophile bashing websites that would totally put your arguments to waste.

[Xenith]

oh i see, kinda reminds me of when i had to write some report about aboriginal art and i wrote that i'm more into fantasy art and the work of Frank Frazetta then the teacher wanted some info on him, and i had to get home, and I was all like "go look him up on the internet it's , you got a computer right over there", so yeah.