APA (Information Literacy)

Last week was really busy and alot of assignments made me tired last week. This week is also was busy but not much. This week I did my exams very well and expecting a good result soon. This week I did a community service again but this time totally different community service. I did blood donation this week. I donated my blood to a blood bank free of cost to serve humanity. I feel really good after donating my blood. I will also suggest all my friends to donate blood to needy persons to save their lives.

This week lecturer taught us about Citation. We have never listen this world before that is why it was a bit interesting for us. Citation or we can also call it as Bibliography.

Bibliography : 

Bibliography/ reference is a list of books & other materials which have some relationship to each other.

The material listed contains the following components:

• Author
• Title
• Place of publication
• Publisher
• Year of publication

Lecturer also taught us about plagiarism.The next she taught was about Citation and Documenting.

The most important APA REPORT. She taught us 100 times to make us confident and good in writing APA REPORT.

APA STYLE :

American Psychological Association (APA) style is an academic format specified in The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, a style guide that offers academic authors guidance on various subjects for the submission of papers to the publications of APA.[1] The APA states that the guidelines were developed to assist reading comprehension in the social and behavioral sciences, for clarity of communication, and for "word choice that best reduces bias in language."[2] [3] The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association contains guidelines on many aspects of academic writing as it is seen appropriate by the APA. Among the topics covered are information on the structure of research papers of various kinds, spelling rules, an author-date reference style, construction of tables and graphs, plagiarism, formatting of papers, and much more.

APA STYLE is used for :

• Term papers
• Research Reports
• Empirical Studies
• Literature Reviews
• Theoretical Articles
• Methodology
• Case Study

RULES FOR APA STYLE ARE :

TITLE-----RULES ----- AUTHOR------DOCUMENTATION

RULES FOR AUTHORS :

a) Start with family name for authors which have family names, follow with coma and initials

    for other part of the names.

 Eg:   Micheal Jackson      = Jackson, Micheal/ Jackson, M.

                                            Peter Garry Means = Garry, P.

 For names without family names, cite as they are known.

                                       Eg:          Osman Hamzah= Osman Hamzah

                                                      Nik Ismail Nik Ishak

If two authors, use ampersand (&) before the last author.

       Use coma after family name.

                                Eg:          Sawyer, C., & Parkin, G. F.

More than six authors, use et al. for the seventh or more author              names.

                                                Eg:          Lofland, L. , Moore, M.H., Estrich. S, McGillis, D.,                                                                               Spelman, W., Parker, K. ,et al.

Like rules for authors she also taught us :

• RULES FOR TITLE
• RULES FOR DOCUMENTATION
• CONDITIONS IF BOOKS ARE WITH 1, 2 OR MORE THEN 2 AUTHORS

The most important part was that when she taught us the APA FORMATS of  following:

1.         Book

2.         Chapter from books (Edited book)

3.         Magazines

4.         Dictionary

5.         Blog 

6.         Online Journal 

7.         Article from Informational/educational website 

8.         Conference Proceedings 

9.         Corporate Bodies

10.      Thesis/ Dissertation 

Some of the formats and their examples are as follows :

1.         Book with Author and Title

Format:
Author,  A. (Year). Title of book (Editor name, Ed.). Place Publication: Publisher.

Examples:
Taparia, N. (2000). Columbia world (T. Heideman, Ed.).  

 Chicago: Columbia Press.

2.         Chapter from books (Edited book)

Format:

 Writer of the chapter. (Year). Title of the chapter. In Name of  the editor. (Ed./Eds.), Title of the book. (pages of the chapter). Place of publication : Publisher.

               

          Damodararao, T., & Sastry, C. A. (1996). Water extraction from sea water acquifer. In C. A. Sastry (Ed.), Water treatment plants (pp. 437-444). New Delhi : Narosa Publishing House.

          Chieffi, G., & Pierantoni, R. (1987). Regulation of ovarian  steroidogenesis. In D. O. Norris & R. E. Jones (Eds.), Hormones and reproduction in fishes,amphibians, and reptiles (pp. 117-144). New York : Plenum Press.

3.         Magazines

Format:

Author,  A.  (Month Day, Year). Name of the Article. Name of   Magazine, volume, page number(s).

Examples:

Pressman,  A. (September 29, 2008).  Bottom fishing in rough   waters. BusinessWeek,  27.

4.         Dictionary

Editor. (Ed.). (Year). Name of Dictionary (Edition, Volumes).        Place publication: Publisher.

Examples:

Weber, C. (Ed.). (2002). Webster's dictionary (4th ed., Vols. 1-4).

                Chicago: Webster Press.

5.         Blog 

Zompist. (2009, September 30). Star wars: Hope not so new anymore

                [Web blog message]. Retrieved January 8, 2012 from     http://zompist.wordpress.com.

This is all we learnt in week seven. Information literacy is getting difficult and difficult by weeks.

Lets see how will be the coming topics.