[nabs-l] citing APA style

Arielle Silverman arielle71 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 25 01:27:29 UTC 2012


I think it's common for professors to allow all students to use
whichever formatting system they prefer as long as they are
consistent. Many of my professors did this even in upper-level
courses. I think it makes sense because students in different majors
will be trained in different formatting systems and it's not really
helpful in the long term to keep switching back and forth.
Another handy feature is Alt+Delete, which will tell you what page you
are on and how far your cursor is from the top and left margins. This
is good for checking to see how far your paragraph is indented.
Arielle

On 4/24/12, Gloria G <gloria.graves at gmail.com> wrote:
> oops! I replied to the wrong message.
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>> 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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