RE: CHICAGO VS. MLA

Subject: RE: CHICAGO VS. MLA
From: "David Ferrier" <ferrierd -at- telus -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 02:20:28 -0600


Ana Gosling asked:
What are the main reasons you prefer the Chicago Manual of Style to the
"MLA style guide" [the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and
the MLA Manual and Style Guide for Scholarly Publishing]?

Just giving links to sources defining the nature of two standards did
not give us the reasons for preferring one standard over the other.

The Chicago Manual of Style
* sets good standards for the preparation of documents,
* is user-friendly, and
* is helpful as a reference.

The MLA works also set document preparation standards, but
* aren't user-friendly and
* are unsuitable for use as reference works.

Therefore I prefer the Chicago Manual of Style.

David Ferrier
ferrierd -at- telus -dot- net
(780) 454 5737




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