POST: Week 5, Day 1, Monday, September 22, 2008

Today we spent extensive time with APA style references.

A couple of important points to remember from our discussion:

1. We never use people's first names in APA -- just their initials.
2. Dates are not abbreviated. We don't say "Sept." we say "September."
3. Titles of articles are NOT capitalized except for:

a. The first word
b. The first word after a colon (:)
c. Any proper adjective or noun

4. Titles of newspapers are italicized.
5. Page numbers are abbreviated as "p." for one page and "pp." for multiple pages.
6. If you got the article from an electronic database, you need to look at the examples on p. 26.
Use a retrieval statement.

HW: For MONDAY of Week 6. You and your partner should have found your five (or more!) good sources to use. Put them in an APA-style reference list similar to the one on p. 280 of the handbook.

We also talked about GOOGLE document issues. Remember: it is NOT enough to set up a collaborator. You MUST click SHARE and then "send email to collaborators." On the message screen, click "CC to me" to send a copy to yourself -- for our records. Then click "Send."

Finally, we have HOMEWORK FOR TOMORROW AT 9 A.M.

Choose one term from the list for Chapter 7 and one from the list for Chapter 8 (see previous blog). Send me your very best short answer/identification of the term in a GOOGLE document by tomorrow at 9 a.m. Title your document "Practice 2."

I will respond to this tomorrow and THEN I will also post the three best and the three worst (with commentaries) on a PRE-BLOG before class on Wednesday.