There's a class being offered tomorrow by my new university, online. It's on the APA writing style. That's the American Psychological Association. And it's my least familiar style. I think I only used it in archeology and geosciences when I was an undergrad, and had to keep it handy to continually reference it. Since I'm so unfamiliar with the APA style, I thought it would be a wasted opportunity not to take the free class.
As an English major, I am (was) more well-versed in the MLA and Chicago stylebooks, yet it has been three years since I used either of them with any regularity.
And there is another class on Tuesday on using the APA as in-text citations and electronic citations. Both very valuable skills to have. And a good way to shake off some rust.
So Tuesday and Wednesday I'll be taking those two classes and adding an APA stylebook to my semester's purchases when the time comes.
Of course, there is also THIS to help speed things along. I like speeding things along. I'm a slow writer, so I'm all for anything that can help shorten that process.
Oh. And Happy Fourth mis amigos Americanos! :D
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Due to a family pet emergency, I was not able to take the classes live. Fortunately, they are recorded and available at any time. They're on my agenda for tomorrow.
I was going to say there are a lot of automatic citation widgets out there now! Just ... PROOF the results when you finalize them. So many kids out there think that because formatting tools are now automatic, you don't have to proof the results. HAHAHAHA is all I have to say on that one!
ReplyDeleteI've never used one of those automatic citation widgets before, although I've heard of them. Good to know that they are not foolproof. Thanks.
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