APA

[rachel83az]

You actually have to read the thing as if it were literature? That sounds like being assigned to read the dictionary. I thought it was a reference like an encyclopedia and wasn't really meant to be read cover to cover.

As part of the MS-Psychology program at Walden, I had to read through 2 APA chapters!!

That sounds awful!

[Supermind]

You actually have to read the thing as if it were literature? That sounds like being assigned to read the dictionary. I thought it was a reference like an encyclopedia and wasn't really meant to be read cover to cover.

As part of the MS-Psychology program at Walden, I had to read through 2 APA chapters!!

That sounds awful!

While it felt a little dry and meaningless, it was also helpful to have all those examples and detailed instructions about in-text citations, references, etc. You will have no doubts about anything while completing the Capstone.

[ss20ts]

I have to admit that I have done so many papers in APA that I'm woken up at night realizing I had been dreaming about APA formatting and editing.

I think nightmare is the word you're thinking of not dreaming. LOL

[Alpha]

[ss20ts]

Absolutely!

[jamshid666]

I'm still miffed at the APA for getting rid of the double-tap after a period. Seriously, who doesn't send one to the chest and one to the head? Joking aside, I don't get too hung up on formatting, I just download the templates for Word and they seem to do a good enough job to get me through everything I've had to write so far. At least it's worked through my BS and MS degrees, I'll see if I can still get away with it at the doctorate level.

[ss20ts]

I'm still miffed at the APA for getting rid of the double-tap after a period.  Seriously, who doesn't send one to the chest and one to the head?  Joking aside, I don't get too hung up on formatting, I just download the templates for Word and they seem to do a good enough job to get me through everything I've had to write so far.  At least it's worked through my BS and MS degrees, I'll see if I can still get away with it at the doctorate level.

The double space after a period goes back to the day of the typewriter. It went away decades ago because of the way kerning is with fonts on computers. That wasn't just an APA thing. I had to do it in MLA back in high school...wont' say how many decades ago that was. It was universal. 

https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/two...do-it.html

This one's funny because it points to our age. 

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-after-period/

[Silvious]

Just grab the harvard extension school's thesis guideline + use Zotero and forget about APA ))

[Vle045]

I'm still miffed at the APA for getting rid of the double-tap after a period.  Seriously, who doesn't send one to the chest and one to the head?  Joking aside, I don't get too hung up on formatting, I just download the templates for Word and they seem to do a good enough job to get me through everything I've had to write so far.  At least it's worked through my BS and MS degrees, I'll see if I can still get away with it at the doctorate level.

The double space after a period goes back to the day of the typewriter. It went away decades ago because of the way kerning is with fonts on computers. That wasn't just an APA thing. I had to do it in MLA back in high school...wont' say how many decades ago that was. It was universal. 

https://slate.com/technology/2011/01/two...do-it.html

This one's funny because it points to our age. 

https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-after-period/

Good lord.  “Decades” can mean 2000…. Which seems like 5 minutes ago. I went to school in the 90’s. Been working for over 20 years.  I have NEVER heard of single spacing between sentences until I started with all this school stuff.  If it ever really matters, I’ll just use find/replace to change all my double spaces. This old dog ain’t learning any new typing tricks.

[jch]

My keyboarding class back in elementary school strictly enforced two spaces after every period. I finally managed to unlearn that last year.