Thursday, June 17, 2010
APA Style
Spent the evening trying to figure out APA formatting style for papers. APA stands for American Psychological Association. That's the required style for all papers for this university. I understand the need for some uniformity but this is ridiculous. My perception is that the "paper graders" are highly stringent about following the prescribed format to the letter. Seems like a lot of wasted energy if you ask me. I've had a number of things published in professional journals. I'd say I've gotten the format reasonably close to the publishers requirements and the journal publisher does the rest. Who knows?
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you can buy- and maybe even download free by now- the APA template so as you type- it gets dumped into the format FOR YOU! Stringency, rigidity, tight rope walkers,...all comes down to learning the rules...can't really break them till you know them! :)
ReplyDeleteTry Son of Citation Machine for citation assistance. I think you still have to double check for details, but it can help get you started. klm
ReplyDeleteGo to http://www.perrla.com/. It is a program that automatically inserts your in-text citations, references, and work cited entries. It also creates a database of all your references.
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