Dust Off That APA Citation Generator in Your Brain

[Loss Leader]

Got the grade for my paper when I logged into school account this morning! 19/20. The point I missed was over a mistake unrelated to formatting or citations. You guys saved the day!

The instructor still never responded to my email. I guess she didn't receive it until after the assignments were already turned in? All indications are that she was not online at all last week (not active in our module, anyway), which isn't exactly cool. Maybe I should have gone to her office on campus and accosted her. Oh well. All's swell that ends swell.

Congratulations on your grade.

 

[Minoosh]

Got the grade for my paper when I logged into school account this morning! 19/20. The point I missed was over a mistake unrelated to formatting or citations. You guys saved the day!

The instructor still never responded to my email. I guess she didn't receive it until after the assignments were already turned in? All indications are that she was not online at all last week (not active in our module, anyway), which isn't exactly cool. Maybe I should have gone to her office on campus and accosted her. Oh well. All's swell that ends swell.

Yes. Congrats. When I got post-bachelors's teacher certification 10 years ago I found it a tremendous challenge to get the simplest questions answered. In fact I was trying to earn a master's at the same time, but through a massive misunderstanding I ended up on a certification-only track. This was a kind of artsy-fartsy do-it-yourself curriculum and while my course descriptions earned praise, no one told me I had to use the state education department's approved titles for individual classes. Apparently I could study underwater basket-weaving as long as I called it Foundations of Education.

I did a lot of good writing for that course and I have thought of approaching the (private) college with a few grand and trying to get master's credit for some of that work. The issue of citations (APA I think) was a huge motivation killer. I was seeing education "researchers" citing their own past papers as support for their scholarly writing, but I had found out enough to know that a lot of education research is bunk - a few academics citing each other in a never-ending loop of earnest gobbledygook. I have read sentences like, "The brain plays an important role in learning" (with scholarly references, of course.) So I admire your grit and patience. Thankfully I didn't have to go through any of that to add certification to my ancient bachelor's degree.