Directions:
This workshop consists of a self-paced slide show as well as links and basic information below. The slides are available in Keynote and PDFs (PDFs are accessible for screen readers). These slides are plain and designed to download fast and simply provide you with information you need for this course.
Once you have looked over these slides, you need to make at least one comment below (100 word minimum) that directly address the slides content for workshop credit, ask questions, etc. While you are not quizzed on this workshop, you are responsible for using this information for your course projects. This is stuff you need to know. Refer back to these slides
Keynote version:APA_AB_Scholarly_Workshop_156i.key
PDF Version:APA_AB_Scholarly_Workshop_156i.pdf
(transcript available on request)
Library Tutorials can be found here (especially "5 Ways to find Articles and Books)
Check out this video on finding scholarly sources
This website at Purdue University has a lot of good information on APA and writing annotated bibliographies
Also,
SJSU Library Databases
Nico's Formatting Tips for APA references
To get a hanging indent in word 2003 or newer: highlight the entire reference, right click, click paragraph, there should be two pull-down menus. Click the top one, choose "hanging."
Here is a list of the approved journals for the course. These are journals that are "safe" to use for this project, but may exclude some Communication journals (there are a lot!), so please feel free to ask. Generally speaking, any journal sponsored by the National Communication Association or the International Communication Association is okay to use. Please note that many of these journals also carry quantitative articles!
American Communication Journal
Communication Education
Communication Monographs
Communication Quarterly
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Discourse and Society
First Monday
Information, Communication, and Society
Information Society
Journal of Applied Communication Research
Journalism of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
Journal of Communication
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Journal of Health Communication
Journal of Mass Media Ethics
Journal of Public Relations Research
Journal of Radio Studies
New Media and Society
Political Communication
Public Relations Quarterly
Southern States Communication Journals
Quarterly Journal of Speech
Southern Speech Communication Journal
Text and Performance Quarterly
Western Journal of Speech Communication
Women's Studies in Communication
Western States Communication Journal
Comments (17)
jstoltz89@... said
at 6:58 pm on Jan 31, 2011
I really appreciated the information you provided on APA, Scholarly sources, and how to write an annotated bibliography. I have really only had to use the MLA format, so these slides provide very thorough information on how to properly site my work APA style. I also really appreciate that you took the time to list the different exceptable sources that can by used in our projects. I will most defenitly take the time to look on the library's website to figure out how to find these journals. Over the course of my college career I have really had to adjust to not depending on google.
uismiguel@... said
at 1:52 pm on Feb 1, 2011
i have done most of my essays and school work on MLA format, and now, it seems that i will be learning lots of more information, which is fascinating me because it provides lots of good examples. i will work more in detain with all this new information to nail it better.
Nick Andolina said
at 4:13 pm on Feb 1, 2011
I think that this workshop is one that is really important especially for me considering I have a lot of trouble with citations. I grew up using MLA format so switching so suddenly to APA was a bit confusing for me. Starting off on the fourth slide with the reference page really helped. I feel like that is a slide I could resort back to whenever I am citing something as it has each part of the citation labeled and in order. The eight slide about referencing in the text was also a really important one in my opinion. I felt like for me personally that is a place where I struggle a lot and am always forced to look back at old examples to figure it out. This slide had a great step by step layout of what to do and I found it extremely helpful.
Andrew Terry said
at 11:55 am on Feb 2, 2011
The APA format went into detail that was helpful since I was able to brush up on the two styles and see the differences in the slides. The sjsu is where I am going to be retreiving the journals which will help me gain more knowledge on the research. I like how I can see the styles in the slides and watching a learning video is a style of learning that I find very helpful and better to comprehend. I have used APA style in my papers more that MLA but learning both will help refresh my skils for when I need to use them next. I like how the slides were short enough to give you direct information that will help students succeed in their courses.
daren johnson said
at 1:13 pm on Feb 2, 2011
I liked this workshop because it is about one of the most confusing issues sometimes with writing. I learned MLA format at Cabrillo Community College, so last semester was my first experience with APA. I did find a great website called “citation machine”, which was very helpful in creating the reference listings needed for essays and Annotated Bibliographies. Instead of having to figure everything out yourself, it just asks for the applicable information, and it creates the citing for you. I had never created an AB until last semester and was surprised by the work involved. I wish I had taken this workshop first !
ted.coopman@... said
at 3:11 pm on Feb 7, 2011
Just remember that citation software only works about 80% of the time so you still have to check it manually.
-TED
megnance@... said
at 1:33 am on Feb 5, 2011
This workshop was extremely important because as a Comm major we se APA format in every course and of course I can never get it right. I always thought the format was silly and that the periods and commas were always going to be confusing, yet this is the first time I think I am starting to get it. You have a very unique way of teaching the information and getting the message across in a clear concise way. Trust me, it is appreciated. I have done several annotated bibliographies, but this time I had direct instruction of how to organize and manage it to be of use. Also, thank you for the many different scholarly journals, I'm sure these will come in handy when we have to research any of the work we have in the rest of the course. Now I'm unsure of how we are supposed to attach our files of the tasks to this, so please help me out in any way possible. Thanks again.
Glenn said
at 4:50 pm on Feb 5, 2011
I’ve done most of my citations at SJSU with MLA. Occasionally a teacher would suggest APA but most really did not care as long as it was consistent. Going though the workshop I can very easily see myself referring back it as I complete my work. The thing I am going to have the most trouble with is not to quote mundane information, because it has been beaten into me that any idea not mine should be quoted but I can easily see how we are supposed to provide the proper amount of paraphrasing. The slides on AB’s are also very valuable because this is something that most of my past teachers never spent much time on.
Micah Dela Cruz said
at 6:01 pm on Feb 5, 2011
This APA workshop was a good refresher. I have done APA citations for other classes but it has been too far in between for it to come naturally to me. So I like the fact that the workshop addresses APA formatting and gives us clear and easy to understand examples. I know for a fact I will be using this workshop quite often. One of the other things that I liked was how to cite your sources in the text properly. This is another one of those things that I often forget how to do...properly. The scholarly sources versus general sources was a good section. Knowing the definition of scholarly source and the process it takes will help me find the correct ones. And I do appreciate the databases you mentioned to help us find some good sources too! Like I said earlier, I will be coming back to this workshop often!
-Micah
Ryan Black said
at 6:42 pm on Feb 5, 2011
The APA workshop is something that I find very valuable as I was taught strictly MLA in high school, for the most part, and I have struggled using the APA format through out college. Being a fourth year student, I wish that I had had access to this workshop earlier in my college career as it probably would have helped me a great deal on a lot of my papers, especially in my Comm 100W class. The thing that I have always had trouble with is in-text citations and I feel that as this being a reference tool for me, I will be able to be easily incorporate in-text citations into my papers.
kenuy15@... said
at 11:37 pm on Feb 5, 2011
kenuy15@... said
at 11:38 pm on Feb 5, 2011
After taking this workshop, I feel as though I have a better understanding. When I took quantitative communication research, I had to read a lot of information on APA. This workshop seemed to be more detailed and gave great examples. I especially enjoyed the section on annotated bibliographies. I had to do an annotated bibliography assignment in my quantitative class, but the information was not detailed. This led me to find my own examples, but I was not sure how reliable the source was. The slide about the organization of an annotated bibliography will be extremely helpful this semester. This workshop also provided a brief description of peer reviewed articles and how they become peer reviewed. This information will be helpful in finding peer reviewed sources. A few semesters ago, my comm 100w class taught me how to research using the SJSU library website. This site does an amazing job at finding scholarly articles. Up until now, I have had great success with the articles that I have found and know that my methods will suffice for this course. This again was extremely helpful and useful as we begin to process research.
mateoman89@... said
at 2:11 pm on Feb 6, 2011
The APA workshop will prove to be most helpful to me throughout this semester. My APA formatting and citing was one of my downfalls last semester when writing papers. I really like how you have simple yet precise examples of each way to cite a source in APA style, be it a magazine, online journal, book, etc. will be referring back to this workshop to make sure my APA formating is up to par. I like how you spoke on the use of online citation machines and that they do not always work. You are totally right. I used online citation machines and assumed my citation was in the correct format only to have my paper docked points after I submitted it for in-proper APA formatting. This workshop will prove to be most helpful.
Jason Steib said
at 11:24 pm on Feb 6, 2011
I found the APA workshop to be very effective in aiding myself personally in fully understanding the format precisely. I really liked that the workshop broke down almost every type of citation that a student would have to use, and helped to answer questions that I may have had previously regarding the format across the many platforms in which a source can derived from. For example, the section where it broke down how to cite a source from books, convention papers, magazines, magazines online, webpages, newspapers, etc. I also enjoyed the section on annotated bibliographies for the same reason, as I was previously unaware of the fact that an annotated bibliography included the added portion in which the research is to be connected to the paper, underneath the source as it was listed. The section that identified the distinction between the scholarly resources and the general resources was also helpful as well.
-Jason Steib
chewy_g10@hotmail.com said
at 11:57 pm on Feb 6, 2011
I thought that this workshop was very informative. I will definitely keep this workshop as a reference for my other classes. I wish some of my other instructors would have put together a workshop like this because it was very informative. Having this workshop would have been a great help in writing other papers for my other classes. If I would have had references like this available I think my grades on previous papers would have been a lot better. I have always been a pretty good writer but having this workshop would have really helped me to not lose points on common errors having to do with citing my work.
-Christina Gomez
mchaidez0785@hotmail.com said
at 6:35 pm on Feb 8, 2011
Awesome workshop! Thank you for making it part of the course; I always carry the small APA booklet, but it was just so confusing to me. It just felt like there were so many rules and it was too hard for me to follow at times. This workshop seemed to break it down so that there was no ,longer any confusion . . . hopefully. I hated my writing class; we did not have a tool like this, we had the booklet, which I used, but whenever I turned in a paper there was always a side note from my instructor to review the APA format. This workshop is a great tool, and it makes me less nervous of turning in a paper. I now know what this course expects and will follow this workshop as a guide for my future success.
- Manny Chaidez
Rebecca said
at 4:20 pm on Feb 13, 2011
I first off would like to say how easy it was to understand APA now. Your slides fully explained what the differences are in how to cite certain types of sources, and also what is qualified as a scholarly source. I also enjoyed that you placed examples of how to write an annotated bibliography because in most of my other classes this semester it is required to write them, and I had no clue on how to, and the teachers didn’t seem like they were going to explain it in class. I think they thought most communication majors already know how to write them. Also I liked how in your examples you used arrows to pin point what you were talking about and that made it even easier to understand.
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