Agreed that copy editors can take care of APA Style trivia, and
reviewers should usually pay them little attention, but TP Orientation is not a
trivial issue -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation . The
data clearly show that TP orientation is a powerful predictor of i
I'm currently Associate Editor for an APA journal (Journal of Abnormal
Psychology), and I probably shouldn't say this, but
The minutae of APA style just aren't considered all that important when
evaluating manuscripts, as copy-editors will take care of most of the details.
Unless APA style
Chris,
Thanks so much for that very funny Onion article about our odd obsession
with students' use of proper APA rules as opposed to the quality and
substance of their writing. Provided some very needed LOLs.
Joan
jwarm...@oakton.edu
> I am perennially fascinated/horrified by the interest ques
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/12/20/early-language-skills-reduce-preschool-tantrums-study-finds
Another interesting example of a correlation being interpreted as
causation. Yes, there is certain logical reasons for the conclusion
proposed but parenting styles and tempera
Chris
Two disclaimers- First, since we are among friends, and second, I cannot of
course speak for anyone else.
Looking back I now see that my early zeal for issues of style fell within a
couple of areas:
First, writing within the style requires the student to engage in a care and
concern for
I am perennially fascinated/horrified by the interest questions pertaining to
APA style seem to generate. They just seem to me to be of about the same level
of scholarly import as are, say, fights over whether the toilet paper should go
over or under the roll.
Sure, students need to be familiar
Good afternoon. I hope that someone can help me revise what I think is a very good assignment.
I typically assign students in my undergraduate Abnormal Psychology classes to write what I call Application Papers. The basics of the assignment are-Stu
Bob et al.,
I have links to a lot of good APA format/style and other writing resources on
my Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology site at
http://jfmueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/student.htm#writing
Jon
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Jon Mueller
Professor of Psychology
North Central Colle
FWIW, it's been a few years since I have taught research methods, but one of
the ways in which I try to convey the importance of proper authorship and the
need for transparency in the sciences is by requiring students to include, when
appropriate, an author note that indicates the type of assist
Thanks, this is good to have since she just doesn't
seem to know where to find what she needs to know
about formatting.
Bob
Original message
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 13:03:37 -0600
From: "C E Walker"
Subject: RE: [tips] APA Format
To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences
(TIPS
I see no case in the linked examples in which the title/author/affiliation are
'flush against the top margin' (that would make it 1" from the top edge of
paper) and I don't allow it in my class because it isn't what APA shows.
Because the APA is vague, I am flexible for it to be between about 2"
I have something of a survey question to ask about APA style:
How many of you require that the title/author name/affiliation/etc to
be flush against the top margin instead of the middle of the page?
Personally, I thought it pretty dumb to have the title/etc in the middle
of the page, especially
Bob: I use the checklist below and it works pretty well. It could be
expanded to include any other items you wish.
Checklist on APA Style
A list of common errors often made in APA Style is provided below. Review
all of them as you write papers and be sure your submission is free of these
er
Hi
There are a few links at
http://ion.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/research/comm/apastyle.html
includes OWL down one level.
Jim
James M. Clark
Professor & Chair of Psychology
j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca
Room 4L41A
204-786-9757
204-774-4134 Fax
Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg
515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB
It is so good now that I'm considering dispensing with requiring students'
purchasing the APA manual and teaching APA style with direct reference to the
OWL lab.
Paul
On Jan 7, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Julie Osland wrote:
I think that the Purdue Online Writing Lab has really good resources for AP
Bob,
A common and reliable source is OWL at Purdue:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Steve
hal...@butte.edu
Butte College, Oroville, CA
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Dr. Bob Wildblood wrote:
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I think that the Purdue Online Writing Lab has really good resources for
APA style.
The link is: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Dr. Bob Wildblood wrote:
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I have a friend who is a "non-traditional" student
(a polite way to say they are quite a bit older than
the average student) who is having difficulties
writing papers in APA Format (big surprise). I am
not teaching classes that require APA format and was
wondering what resources you use for your s
Mike--
I'm not a mathematician; neither are most physicists.
We use tools that appear to work for us, whether they are technically correct
or not.
For instance, when I did my dissertation on counting behavior by rats, I
considered using signal detection theory and rejected it because of unmet
as
On Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:39:57 -0600, Paul Brandon wrote:
Your final quote was the sense I'm familiar with; the term 'infinitely
positive or negative ' uses the term as a modifier, not a noun.
See: http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/10/13/infinity-is-not-a-number/
Just a couple of po
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