[nabs-l] citing APA style

Wed Apr 25 01:45:55 UTC 2012

Hi, Arielle!
Tell that to my Freshmen English 1 instructor, who insisted, that all
of our work, be done, in APA format!
I'm glad, she's gone!
Blessings, Joshua

On 4/24/12, Arielle Silverman <arielle71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>> ----- 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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