Posted: 7/24/2009 7:53:28 PM EDT
| Anyone know the correct way to reference a quote someone made in APA format? |
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Let me be the first to say, on behalf of college students everywhere, Fuck APA, Fuck MLA, and Fuck ever other writing style referenced in any class that requires writing 5x as many words as it takes to prove a point.  Amen. I've got a couple of degrees in psychology and I'd like to meet the fuckers that came up with that APA style bullshit. It's about the hardest damn format to read I've ever encountered. You can have a 3-line sentence with only about half a line being text and the rest being people's names in parantheses.
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Quoted: This is the site I was coming in here to recommend.A good place I use for Comp and Lit class is " The OWL" Online Writing Lab created and maintianed by Purdue University. Good examples and relatively easy to use. S-34 Basically, I show my students Long Island University's citation pages (they color-code, so it makes it easy for visual learners) and the Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) site. The OWL pages are a little more advanced and in-depth, but between the two, you should be able to meet roughly 85-90% of undergraduate-level citation needs. If it's harder than the OWL site can offer, you're probably going to need to pony up for the full APA Manual. Incidentally, the library on campus just purchased online access to the APA manual. You can call it up like any other subscription database. Pretty cool... |