April 1st News Flash!!

This just in! Katie Elle Turabian, Alfred Phillips-Adams (APA), and Mary-Lang Abrams (MLA) have all announced some significant changes to the formatting of academic papers.

First, all title pages will henceforth be abolished. Mr. Phillips-Adams of APA was available for comment: "We have found the title page to be a distracting bit of fluff that is not essential to the paper. We at APA are only concerned with facts and dates; the title page is an unneccesary bow tie on the writer's proverbial academic present."

Next, as the spacing after the period was previously reduced from two spaces to one, it shall now be reduced from one space to none. "Spacing between sentences is really quite over-rated," quipped Mary-Lang Abrams."The period alone is sufficient enough to show distinction between sentences.Nothing more is needed."

Finally, Katie Elle Turabian has convinced the other style gurus to join her in making each section of an academic paper have its own format for page numbers. "The table of contents will continue to have roman numerals at the bottom center of the page," Turabian said. "The introduction shall have latin numerals at the top right, starting over with one. The body of the paper will go back to roman numerals, this time at the bottom left of the page. The conclusion will have large tally marks handwritten on top of the text. Finally, the reference page will contain the final numbers for the paper, continuous from the first section at the top left of the page, written in binary form."

As of April 1st, these changes are in place and are expected to be followed for all Regent University academic assignments.