Day 20: APA Reference Page Citations and Relevancy Statements

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! What an appropriately gloomy day. Hopefully you've already picked out your costumes and stocked up on candy (if not, you might be stuck with a fake mustache and some candy corn). For anyone interested, here is a short video clip about the origins and history of Halloween! 

Today is class we will be talking about how to format reference page citations. This is a very important process, though it is not the only citation consideration that we will be discussing this semester. As part of the final unit, we will also be talking about in-text citations as well. The two (reference page citations and in-text citations) form a united team to ensure that your writing and research maintains a high standard of academic integrity. 

The outline for today's class follows:

APA Reference Page Citations and Relevancy Statements

I. Introduction: Review the sample APA Reference Page Citation and Summary from last class

Let's start today's class by reviewing the work we were doing at the end of class on Tuesday. Please open the file you were working on and compare your answers with mine (found here).

II. APA Citation Patterns

First, let's distinguish between reference listings and in-text citations. Reference listings come at the end of the paper, as part of the (annotated) bibliography. Look at this sample list of APA reference page citations. In-text citations are found within the text, like these examples. This short ppt covers the difference in greater detail.

Now, let's focus on reference listings. Looking at the same list, with a partner, come up with a list of at least 5 different rules, commonalities or patterns that you observed. Once you finished, share a few of your observations on this chart. Feel free to mention anything you may have learned from the APA Handbook! 

II. Practice: Writing APA Reference Listings 

I'll bet many of you didn't know that some of your classmates are already published authors. Pretty cool, huh? Today, we'll be talking the bibliographic information for their books, articles and websites and formatting APA reference listings for them. Here is the list of information. 

Now with a partner, open up an MS Word document and create the APA reference page listings for the sources written by your classmates. Don't forget to consult with the APA Student Handbook (found here) for formatting tips. 

List them here

III. More Practice: APA Reference Listings

Ok, now that you have practiced and are all warmed up, it's time to put your skills to the test. In your groups of three, please fill out this short quiz with a partner. Remember to read the directions! It not only asks you to create the APA reference listing citation, but also to format the bibliography page with all the citations in the correct order. When you finish, please email me the completed document (jk.esl.uiuc@gmail.com) and include the group names. 

IV. Source Relevancy

What does the word 'relevancy' mean? Can you give an example? What do you think you will write as part of your relevancy statements for the annotated bibliography? We looked some examples in class last time. What do the example relevancy statements discuss? 

Housekeeping Details and Homework for Tuesday (11/5/2013)

-Finish your APA citations for all five of your sources. When you finish, please add them to the document where you have been storing all your APA Annotated Bibliography work. By Tuesday, you will have APA Citations and Reliability Statements for ALL of your sources. 

-Fill out the Relevancy Organizer for your sources as a way of helping you write your "Relevancy Statements'. The organizer will not be graded. It's for your personal use to help you organizer your thought. However, you're relevancy statements will be due before class on Tuesday. Please add them to document with your reliability statements and APA citations. Remember to order everything correctly (APA, (Summary), Relevancy Statement, Reliability Statement). 

-Pre-Research Portfolio Upload to SafeAssign: I figured it out! In order to upload your Pre-Research Portfolios to SafeAssign, they need to be converted to pdfs. To do this, go to your GoogleDoc, click 'File', then scroll down to "Download As" and choose "pdf". A window will open up and under "Options", choose "All Sheets" and then click "Export". You should then be ready to upload it to SafeAssign. 

Be careful when walking home tonight….