{"id":2760,"date":"2014-09-16T16:59:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/education\/2014\/09\/16\/full-house-for-dawn-hunters-apa-workshop\/"},"modified":"2014-09-16T16:59:25","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T23:59:25","slug":"full-house-for-dawn-hunters-apa-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/education\/2014\/09\/16\/full-house-for-dawn-hunters-apa-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Full House for Dawn Hunter\u2019s APA Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What did you do last Saturday morning? Go to the beach? Run errands? Sleep in? For more than 60 students in the College of Educational Studies, the day began with a workshop presented by Dr. Dawn Hunter<\/a>\u00a0titled, \u201cEverything you ever wanted to know about APA style, but were afraid to ask.\u201d<\/p>\n

APA stands for American Psychological Association, and it\u2019s the style guide CES has adopted. Students who want to publish their work in various academic journals might be especially motivated to attend the workshop, but every student submitting work in CES classes must adhere to APA guidelines<\/a>. Attendees included a mix of undergraduate and graduate students.<\/p>\n

Dr. Hunter, a self-described \u201cAPA geek,\u201d who\u2019s been offering the workshop for about 13 years, says that, prior to the workshop, \u201cStudents were having a great deal of difficulty in following APA format (many of them were used to MLA) and faculty were spending a lot of time correcting the APA errors. I thought if I could offer a workshop, I could possibly save students and faculty both time and frustration and get new students off to a good academic start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miznah Alomair, a first-year Ph.D. candidate in Leadership Studies, says that, although she\u2019s \u201cvery familiar\u201d with APA Style, having worked with it for years, she learned a few new tips: \u201cI learned about citing short versus long quotations. I normally refrain from using quotations in my research papers. Instead, I rely on paraphrasing and giving credit to the source, of course.\u201d Also, Miznah said, \u201cI was surprised to realize that it was required to include the words \u2018running head\u2019 before the header only on the title page of the paper.<\/p>\n

Amid the discussions of serial commas, when to indent and when not to, and avoiding plagiarism, there were a lot of laughs \u2013 and a fair amount of donuts.<\/p>\n

Students who missed the workshop can expect to see it advertised again in the spring.<\/p>\n