All through high school I took basic level writing classes. It is not that I was a poor writer, I just did not want all of the extra work. Therefor, I never learned any other type of formatting than MLA. When I arrived here at UCA my writing I teacher required us to write using MLA formatting as well. This semester has been a challenge for me because Mrs.Bowles required all of our writing in APA format. I learned the process mostly through the website The Owl at Purdue. Also, I utilized the writing center for spot checking any reference questions I had. Learning this process has been the second greatest thing I am taking away from this class.
I am also in Oral Communication this semester and we have had to do papers for speech using APA formatting. References and citing withing the text has been the most challenging aspect for me.With referencing resources I used, I found that there are many areas I could make a mistake on. Different types of sources require different layout, or formats. I had the hardest time writing a reference that had many authors. Citing within the text for APA formatting is not very different than it is for MLA. Deciding to use the authors last name with the date of publication or page number is one of the things I needed the most help with. Also, I found that the running title at the top of the page to be odd.
5 comments:
the apa was new for me too. Im glad Im familiar with it now
I took advanced english classes and I still never learned anything besides MLA
im glad i did the APA thing this semester as well. Aparently it is much more widely used than anyother style. So why did they only teach MLA in highschool?
I used the writing center as well. They really helped out.
The writing center was AWESOME. That's one thing i'll def. keep for use later on.
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