Monday, September 25, 2006

Student's and their citations...

How hard is it to correctly write a citation in APA format? Not that difficulty, yet students seem to have this mental block when it comes to doing so. I teach them in my classes, they have access to the APA manual, I even give them a cheat sheet that shows how to do it!!!! Yet they still refuse to do it. It isn't just the undergraduates although theirs are a lot worse than the graduate students. Tomorrow I am teach 4 sections of an undergraduate education class "Education in a Democratic Society", the instructor for the course sent me the students first assingment to review, so I could look it over and see what I thought the students need help with. Their citations are so bad they make my eye twitch. I don't know if they are not being taught it in the classrooom or if the classroom faculty isn't markinf off for incorrect citations....Hoepfully I will be able to help the students tomorrow.