Nov
It was a partially clouded morning, I opened the fridge and the first thing I saw was the sentence: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter!…
What if actually someone said that? Can a butter substitute flirt so cynically with fantasy to make you hesitate reality? Is margarine made of the same matter as dreams? Well, the reply to this and many other questions around this syntagm could be easily answered through proper citation. Imagine a footnote or a [citation needed] clause on every statement, even on the ones not likely to be challenged: Every single sentence could lead to a plethora of references that will eventually end into irreducible axioms or obvious contradictions. Something like “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter” could propose a complete journey involving even the most dark scripts of St. Augustine.
Learn how to cite properly and start now this new quest for the meaning of life with the MLA Formatting and Style Guide (published by OWL but a little extensive) or with this simple guide if you are running out of time. Yup [citation needed]!
