the encouragement lounge: APA Citation Decision Tree

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

APA Citation Decision Tree

APA workshops are often designed to help students understand how to cite various types of sources, however I think the primary challenge with APA is knowing when to cite. Some students are also unclear about when something from a source should be in quotation marks and when quotation marks are not needed. This summer I designed the graphic above to help you understand when to cite, when to use quotation marks, when to quote directly, and what to include in your reference list. Click on the graphic above to see a larger version and right click on it to save it to your desktop.

All the best,
Harriet

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AnonymousFebruary 16, 2015 at 9:08 AM
Love This! I would like to share with students at my institution through the Learning Centre. http://www.kpu.ca/learningcentres
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AnonymousMay 28, 2015 at 1:30 PM
I'd like to see a version that was just Citation Decision Tree. (don't you love when you do a marvelous thing ad everybody wants you to tweak it to suit them? :-D ) We use BCE in my Biology Classes, but the basic gist is the same, If it;s not an original thought with you you've got to cite a source and you;ve got to do it in the text!
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Working adult students, on my mind...

I hope this blog will be helpful to friends and others involved in a variety of endeavors. However, I created the blog with students in mind and continue to develop it with that specific group as my focus.

I believe that with the increase in evening, weekend, and low-residency programs, students are working more and more in isolation. If we were all full-time students on campus, we would have the informal support that comes with being able to go down the hall and talk with a colleague, etc. But instead, we are working late nights and weekends at home in front of the laptop.

With that in mind, I hope the encouragement lounge provides brief moments of respite and energizing connection. This does not at all replace valuable face-to-face contact. Many aspects of the academic journey can only be addressed via in-depth conversations with colleagues and teachers. And I would always rather sit down and talk with someone than to communicate online. Nonetheless, my aim is to give you one more channel for quick hits of support.