[nabs-l] citing APA style

Gloria G gloria.graves at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 13:41:26 UTC 2012


Hey,
I only got have of your message I believe. Can you please send this again. I 
think the beginning of the message was cut off.
Gloria
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loren" <isaiah5719 at mchsi.com>
To: "'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'" 
<nabs-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style


> Also it is a good thing to have someone else check your work, if you have
> the time.  Others will pick up things you missed, and that is in no way a
> bad reflection on you.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Ashley Bramlett
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 8:08 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> Humberto,
> Jaws hase limitations where as a sighted person reads the whole liine and
> knows that say Sociology is italicized and Smith is not.
> You do not get this info unles you look for it and I don't always know 
> where
> to look for it. Insert f is limiting because it tells you info relevant to
> that word only. I need to know where periods, commas, italics, etc are
> within the whole line in this case. The way to learn is to have it 
> explained
> or see it brailled; braille is not an option in college; no braille
> reference book, so I have to learn by someone telling me.
>
> Also, I think I get it based on good explanations here; but having someone
> look over this stuff is not a bad idea, time permitting. After all, that 
> is
> what tutoring is for in college. Most schools offer this.
>
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Humberto Avila
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 6:31 PM
> To: 'National Association of Blind Students mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> Hello  Ashley and all.
>
> I'm not trying to criticize your screen reader usage. But can't you use 
> your
> screen reader's specific commands to read font information and the like?
> Isn't there a way to tell colors and at least attempt to format them
> yourselves? I know I can do that with JAWS. The command for telling me the
> font information using JAWS is insert+F, and the command to tell me what
> color I am working with is insert+5, 5 meaning the number row on the
> keyboard. I'm not sure you can do that in NVDA, but there are also 
> settings
> in NVDA that allow you to describe the font or text attributes.
> In the settings center (for jaws 12 and over) / configuration manager 
> (jaws
> 11 and under), there are settings that tell JAWS how to do all sorts of
> things. Like there is a dialog box called the "speech and sounds scheme"
> where you can specify what you want JAWS to speak. In NVDA, you can go to
> the NVDA preferences menu and choose the "document formatting" dialog box 
> in
> which you can specify the settings that you want, like what attributes you
> want NVDA to speak to you. My point is, yes you can request a reader, but
> don't just request a reader for these things that a screen reader can do 
> for
> you. It might take you just a few seconds of your homework / study / 
> testing
> time when you hear that extra information coming out of your speakers or
> headphones and deciphering into your brain for reading, but it is 
> feasible.
> Besides some of you crank that voice rate on your screen readers pretty
> high. At least for me. I don't' want to rely so much on a reader just to
> tell me, "hey this text is displaying in italics, red, and underlined."
> while my screen reader can be my own reader for that. Isn't why such
> software is called "screen reader"? Because it reads to you. [smile!]
>
> Hope this helps you, and I am sorry if I'm starting a hot debate in here
> about using real readers Vs. JAWS for editing font attributes. <smile>
>
> Cheers,
> Humberto
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Ashley Bramlett
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 1:28 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> gee, Josh, lots of people hate formatting. Its just a little harder for us
> since we cannot see it so someone has to tell us.
> It used to be that you put the article in quotes and underlined book or
> chapter titles.From what I can see so far, this is no longer the case.
> You start it the same though. Just do not put quotes or underlines; its
> still author's name, date in parenthesis, title of article or book, title 
> of
>
> journal. then not sure.
>
> I'll ask someone sighted yeah, but I need to learn. I can certainly bold 
> or
> italic something if I know what need  to be bolded/italiacized.
>
> Ashley
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Lester
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:52 PM
> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] citing APA style
>
> I've always hated APA format!
> It's very confusing!
> My Freshmen English instructor made us use it, so I had a sighted 
> work-study
> help me format it.
> I'd recommend this, as well.
> Blessings, Joshua
>
> On 4/23/12, Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm struggling with the citation style as usual. Jaws doesn't tell me
>> the formatting of the words and I went word by word to hear
>> punctuation in the sample reference entry I looked up.  I do have to
> alphabetize them, right?
>
>> I
>> know you do in MLA.
>>
>> How Do I format the Journal title and title of article? Do I put
>> italics or anything on it? Before there were quotes around the title
>> of article, but when I looked online now, there are none.
>> How do I site the volume number and issue? The sample says number and
>> a parenthese number. I'm confused. I know I site the page number range
>> after this. Like do I write Journal of Adolescent psychology, 3 (24)
>> and the 3 is volume number and 24 is issue number?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Ashley
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