Does anyone enjoy referencing assignments?

So often, I think I'm at the end of an assignment, and it makes me happy. I so often find myself saying, good, now all I've got to do is the in text references and the reference list. But the problem is, that winds up taking more time than it took writing the 3000 words.

I hate it. By the way, kiddies at school, be aware that uni is very stringent when it comes to referencing so try to learn how to do it...I didn't learn before uni ...two years in and I'm better, but it still gives me the *****s.

I believe the principle should be adopted of, what's mine is yours...in that sense, everything ever written is everyone's. Problem solved. Instant genius status for everybody and nothing would ever be referenced as you have claim to everything. Stuff intellectual property rights. They are a load of bollocks. No one appreciates you writing something complicated Dr Wang Jang...but boy, they'd love it if you were cool and let people use "your" work without mentioning your name and the year that you finally finished writing this excruciating piece of work. In all seriousness, people do good work, which I can't do, but let's see them have their cake, but we can eat it too. You know something's aray when completing the referencing is more painful then reading about the cotemporary application of media in liberal democracies 21st century, or reading about the financialization, finance rationality and the role of the media.

Anyway, this has come to the forefront of my mind as I have finished an assignment...

Only the references to go



Edit: By the way, does anyone know how to in text reference a dictionary (no author), using the harvard method?

Cammo referencing is probably my biggest hate at uni. We use the APA system generally which I think is similar to the Harvard way. Not sure what you do to reference a dictionary though

Success....

I thought that this would just go down as one angry man's blog!

I haven't worked it out (i haven't exactly tried yet though)

I might have to give it a crack before next semester i would think

Sucess!

Referencing done...still hate it, but no more till next year

Now to just cut 250 words out of my assignment

Endnote would be the way to go, but if you are doing all your research online (as many people do these days) have a look at a program called Zotero ... I think it's open-source and shareware, and is an excellent on-line reference manager.