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(07-07-2021, 08:39 PM)Supermind Wrote: (07-07-2021, 02:38 PM)rachel83az Wrote: 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!
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(07-08-2021, 02:34 AM)rachel83az Wrote: (07-07-2021, 08:39 PM)Supermind Wrote: (07-07-2021, 02:38 PM)rachel83az Wrote: 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.
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(07-07-2021, 10:13 PM)SweetSecret Wrote: 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
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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.
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(07-08-2021, 01:06 PM)jamshid666 Wrote: 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/
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Just grab the harvard extension school's thesis guideline + use Zotero and forget about APA ))
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(07-08-2021, 01:25 PM)ss20ts Wrote: (07-08-2021, 01:06 PM)jamshid666 Wrote: 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.
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My keyboarding class back in elementary school strictly enforced two spaces after every period. I finally managed to unlearn that last year.
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