• Swallowtail@beehaw.org
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      2 months ago

      Requiring students to cite work is pretty common in academic writing after middle school.

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      2 months ago

      The text has nothing unusual, just a request to make sure a certain author is cited. It has no idea that said author does not exist nor that the name is even vaguely not human