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Thursday, February 24, 2011

Common Mistakes on Article Reviews

Hey guys,

As you finish up the course and the last few article reviews, we wanted to remind you to please look over the comments on your graded article reviews in order to improve on them. Also, Dr. Clements provided you with some great pointers on Moodle that will help you to improve your scores and your APA writing in general; please read it!

In addition, we wanted to make you aware of some common mistakes we are still seeing on the article reviews in hopes to help you in the future:
  • Many of you are not specifying why the article is relevant to your future work (especially your future research). Please don't be general in this section, but instead tell us specifically why it is relevant to you and your research interests.

  • Make sure to include relevant demographics when describing the sample; this must at least include age, gender, and ethnicity. If this information is not given, please write that is was not given in that section. You would probably also want to include this as a limit or flaw in the study as it is hard to assess generalizability if you do not have information about the sample.

  • Go to crossref.org/guestquery to search (thoroughly) for the DOI. If you absolutely cannot find one on Ebsco or on crossref.org, you need to follow pp. 191-192 in the APA manual and provide the URL of the journal’s homepage.

  • If you do not have a sixth edition APA manual, buy one. You will need it!!

  • Do not bold “Article Review X”, but do bold the subheadings.

  • Do not include the issue number in the reference unless the journal paginates by issue (starts each issue on page 1). This information can be found by clicking on the journal title on the Ebsco page, going to issue two of any given year, and seeing if the second issue begins on page 1. If it does not, then do not include the issue number in your reference because that journal paginates by volume, not issue.
  • Make sure that a heading is not left at the bottom of a page without any text underneath it. Go ahead and hit enter and move it down to begin the next page. The subheadings are lonely without their text. : )

  • Punctuation is tricky, but really important. Check out pp. 88-93 in the APA manual to improve your usage of commas, hyphens, semi-colons, and colons.
Hope this is helpful!


posted by Nikki Frederick @ 2:11 PM  

6 Comments:

  • At 9:48 AM, Blogger Jenn Irish said…

    Hey Nikki,

    Thanks for the pointers. I do have a question about the bolding of "Article Review X". The example posted on Moodle has that title in bold, and I have received comments to put it in bold when I originally hadn't. I'm guessing that since you are telling us here, we are to not put it in bold, but I would love some clarification when you get the chance!

    Thanks,
    Jenn

     

  • At 10:24 AM, Blogger David said…

    Sorry for the confusion. You're right that the example has the title bolded, and that probably the first couple reviews had said to bold.

    But Dr. Clements noticed partway through the quarter that the example report in the APA manual does not bold titles that begin their own page (i.e. Abstract, Title, References). I believe this was addressed in class.

    At any rate, it's something to keep in mind as you go forward, but you won't lose points for this on the reviews.

     

  • At 11:44 AM, Blogger Jenn Irish said…

    Great, thanks!

     

  • At 12:53 PM, Blogger Anthony J. said…

    Thanks for this really helpful information, nikki! I have a question: if we have a grading question regarding an article review, how should we go about discussing it the TA's...in order to have our anonymity preserved? Thanks so much; I hope you're having a nice sunday!

     

  • At 2:17 PM, Blogger David said…

    That's a tricky one. You could just talk to Dr. Clements directly. Or another option (suggested by Nikki) is that you could print your article review w/o the pseudonym and one of us could look over it. If we feel like you were unfairly docked, we could have Dr. Clements go back into turnitin.com and give points back.

     

  • At 11:58 AM, Blogger Mari Clements said…

    Best option with any grading question is to discuss it with me. As the grades are ultimately my responsibility AND as I actually work from a spreadsheet into which I have entered grades, any changes would have to come to me anyway.

     

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