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In reply to the discussion: Ok, age check, who remembers? [View all]Swede Atlanta
(3,596 posts)I remember spending hours going through the card catalog and noting tens if not hundreds of "potential" sources for a paper. Then it was to the stacks to find those various books and then combing through them to validate their application. So many times the books you wanted were checked out or had been lost.
As well I was helping him with a paper, mostly around grammar and some tips on sentence construction such as don't start with a preposition, use active voice, simple structure, etc. I told him when I went to college everything was typed on paper. You could jot your ideas and outline on paper but everything was done on paper. If you didn't leave enough room for a footnote at the bottom of a page you had to re-type the page completely. If you later in the paper decided you wanted to pull a section forward, etc. it might require retyping the entire paper.