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Web-resource Design Project, Project #1: APA Citations

Web Use and Publishing                                                                                            ELFH 675

Group 7                                                                                                                       Fall 2006

Karen Mann

Anthony Niemann

Jim Nilson

Need

The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th (APA) edition is the manual of academic style standard for reference citation for education students to use in research papers. Undergraduate college of education students need to cite sources, e.g., journal articles, books, and online articles, correctly in their research papers in order to produce academic papers that are well documented and well supported by sources. Reference citations appear in text, and reference lists appear at the end of the papers. Less than complete citation can bring forward questions by professors and others of plagiarism on the part of the student. In addition, undergraduate students may be preparing for graduate school where they will produce scholarly papers that must use correct citations.

 

Participant profile

The students who will take advantage of this web training are juniors or seniors, who have declared a major in the college of education. Students are computer literate having high-level computer skills in database and library research. Students understand the necessity of citing sources properly in research papers and know how to find and identify the parts of the citation, e.g., title, author, publisher, volume, issue, publication date, etc. Students have computer access and are connected to the Internet in order to take advantage of the training.

 

Course Goal

Students will apply APA guidelines when providing citations for reference material used in assignments at the College of Education, University of Louisville.

 

Terminal Objective 1

Given a Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, the student will show reference citations in text for the following source types…

 

  • one book with one author
  • one journal article with no author
  • one journal article with one author
  • one journal article with three authors
  • one online article with three authors

 

…with zero errors.

 

Enabling Objective 1a

Given the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, index, the student will select correct page numbers that provide reference citations in text guidelines for the following sources.

 

  • one book with one author
  • one journal article with no author
  • one journal article with one author
  • one journal article with three authors
  • one online article with three authors

 

Enabling Objective 1b

Given the appropriate pages from the APA index, the student will write the correct reference citations in text from the examples shown on the training page.

 

  • one book with one author
  • one journal article with no author
  • one journal article with one author
  • one journal article with three authors
  • one online article with three authors

 

Terminal Objective 2

Given a Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, the student will show a reference list for the following sources …

 

  • one book with one author
  • one journal article with no author
  • one journal article with one author
  • one journal article with three authors
  • one online article with three authors

 

…with zero errors.

 

Enabling Objective 2a

Given a Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Fifth Edition, index, the student will select correct page numbers that provide reference list guidelines for the following sources.

 

  • one book with one author
  • one journal article with no author
  • one journal article with one author
  • one journal article with three authors
  • one online article with three authors

 

Enabling Objective 2b

Given the appropriate pages from the APA index, the student will write the correct reference list entries from the examples shown on the training page.

 

  • one book with one author
  • one journal article with no author
  • one journal article with one author
  • one journal article with three authors
  • one online article with three authors

 

Course Outline

 

APA Citations     

 

1.      Pre-Test

 

2.      Show reference citations in text (APA style 5th Edition) w/ zero errors

 

a.       Select correct page numbers that provide reference citations in text guidelines

                                                               i.      one book with one author

                                                             ii.      one journal article with no author

                                                            iii.      one journal article with one author

                                                           iv.      one journal article with three authors

                                                             v.      one online article with three authors

 

b.       Write the correct reference citations in text from the training page example

                                                               i.      one book with one author

                                                             ii.      one journal article with no author

                                                            iii.      one journal article with one author

                                                           iv.      one journal article with three authors

                                                             v.      one online article with three authors

 

3.      Show a reference list (APA style 5th Edition) w/ zero errors

 

a.       Select correct page numbers that provide reference list guidelines

                                                               i.      one book with one author

                                                             ii.      one journal article with no author

                                                            iii.      one journal article with one author

                                                           iv.      one journal article with three authors

                                                             v.      one online article with three authors

 

b.       Write the correct reference list from the training page example

                                                               i.      one book with one author

                                                             ii.      one journal article with no author

                                                            iii.      one journal article with one author

                                                           iv.      one journal article with three authors

                                                             v.      one online article with three authors

 

4.      Course Summary

 

5.      Post-Test

 

6.      Certificate Award

 

7.      Additional Resources/Questions

 

Course Assessment

 

Following are a pre-test and post-test with each section containing a condition, questions, and answers. The pre-test is a simple two questions that will gauge whether a student has enough basic knowledge to start with the modules. The post-test is meant to gauge the learning experience. The questions cover the four ELOs (reference list and reference in text). In order to more easily automate the answers in the course design, they are in multiple choice and T or F format (no open answers).

 

Pre-Test

 

Pre-Test Condition:

Required 100% answer success rate before allowing access to course modules.

 

 

Pre-Test Questions:

It is important to follow the APA rules exactly as specified when citing a reference?

  1. True
  2. False

 

Which is not a type of reference that can be used according to the APA rules?

  1. Reference in text
  2. Reference list
  3. Reference menu

 

 

Pre-Test Answers:

  1. a. True
  2. c. Reference menu

 

 

 

Post-Test

 

Post-Test Condition:

Required >90% answer success rate before issuing certificate of completion.

 

Post-Test Questions:

 

1. The following reference list citation for a book follows the APA rules:

 

               Komisar, L. (1991). The new feminism. New York: Franklin Watts.
 
  1. True
  2. False

 

2. The following reference in text citation for a book follows the APA rules: 

 
               (Komisar, 1991)

 

  1. True
  2. False

 

3.      What is wrong with the format for a journal with no author reference list entry?

 

The title of the article. (year). Journal Name, Volume(Issue), page_number(s).

 

  1. Journal Name should not be italicized
  2. Page number(s) should come before the Volume
  3. Year should come before the title of the article
  4. Nothing is wrong. This format is correct.

 

4. A journal with no author reference in text should follow the following format:

 

(year, page(s))

 

  1. True
  2. False

 

5. A journal with one author reference list entry should follow the following format:

 

Last_name, First_Initial. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, Volume(Issue),

 

page_number(s).

 

  1. True
  2. False

 

6. The last name of a solitary author of a journal article is optional for an in text citation.

 

  1. True
  2. False

 

7. The first time you cite a journal source reference in text that has three authors, you only need to identify the first author in a single phrase or parentheses. Including the other two authors is unnecessary.

 

  1. True
  2. False

 

8. What is wrong with the following journal source reference list that has three authors?

 

White, S., Winzelberg, A., & Norlin, J. (1992). Laughter and stress. Humor, 5(3), 343-355.

 

  1. Nothing is wrong. This format is correct.
  2. The first names of the authors should be spelled out
  3. The authors should be listed alphabetically by their last names.

 

Post-Test Answers:

1. a. True

2. a. True

3. d. Nothing is wrong. This format is correct.

4. b. False

5. a. True

6. b. False

7. b. False

8. a. Nothing is wrong. This format is correct.

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