#how does she expect me to do my job of editing the bibliography when T h e r e I s N o F u c k i n g B i b l i o g r a p h y

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I just wrote a very long rant and deleted it again but!! if any of you EVER have even a tiny bit of imposter syndrome when it comes to academic writing I am very happy to inform you that you absolutely do not need any of that, because as I've witnessed countless times by now, even some professors (especially professors) do not know how to use citation software but will also refuse to put any bibliographic information into the WIP document, and instead rely on their asistant's psychic powers to figure out what needs to go into the bibliography of their texts.

#rant #ramblings #like i'M BEGGING YOU AT LEAST GIVE ME THE TITLE OF THE TEXT OR THE PLACE OF PUBLICATION #just the author's name and a year is NOT ENOUGH with most authors 😭 #i'm so fucking frustrated like why why WHY WOULD YOU NOT JUST COPY PASTE THE INFO INTO THE DOC #you must have had the info at one point when u looked the reference text up??? #just copy it into the doc #and what makes it even worse is that we all have access to a citation software that I KNOW she sometimes uses #but not consistently and then it's just pure chaos #how does she expect me to do my job of editing the bibliography when T h e r e I s N o F u c k i n g B i b l i o g r a p h y #life in academia