Dear Colleagues: Among the assignments that I require my students in LS 705 (Organization & Management) to complete is the finding of articles on the themes of the course and the preparation of a short précis on each one. A citation of the article in APA format is a required element of the assignment and errors in citation result in a decrease in the student's grade. I make sure that I highlight the errors in the citation, including spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc. This is a relatively easy assignment to grade, however, it does provide the student with experience in finding information about the work that they will be doing, practicing their writing skills, and using APA. Please note that I am also concerned when our students don't know the difference between there, their and they're as well as its and it's! Arthur L. Friedman, Ed.D., MLS, MS(Ed) Professor, Library Nassau Community College One Education Drive Garden City, New York 11530-6793 516-572-7401 ext. 26028 ________________________________________ From: gslisadjuncts-bounces@lists.qc.cuny.edu <gslisadjuncts-bounces@lists.qc.cuny.edu> on behalf of Mary K Chelton <mchelton@optonline.net> Sent: Friday, April 4, 2014 9:12 AM To: gslisfac@qc.edu; gslisadjuncts@lists.qc.cuny.edu Subject: Gslisadjuncts Use of APA by students Dear colleagues, This is part plea, part rant, and part lament. The style manual adopted by the department is APA, and it is expected that student compliance with its use will be required and enforced by ALL faculty. This is not happening, and some of us teaching advanced courses are getting at best inconsistent citation crap on assignment papers, which forces totally unnecessary copy editing and reteaching of APA. There is absolutely no point in requiring this manual if we are not all enforcing its use, and it makes teaching 709 a misery. Would you please make students use it and lower their grades if they don’t, so we can cure this? It is sending an inconsistent message to students and becoming infuriating to those of us who are trying to get them to use it properly. Please make APA compliance on papers part of the grade. Thank you for what I hope is a cathartic moment! Mary K. Chelton _______________________________________________ gslisadjuncts mailing list gslisadjuncts@lists.qc.cuny.edu http://lists.qc.cuny.edu/mailman/listinfo/gslisadjuncts