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APA, Annotated Bibliography, and Scholarly Sources Workshop

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Directions:

This workshop has online and in class components and consists of a self-paced slide show, tasks for you to complete, as well as links and basic information below. The slides are available in Keynote and PDFs (PDFs are accessible for screen readers). These slides are plain and designed to download fast and simply provide you with information you need for this course.

 

This workshop has a quiz on its content on D2L.
Make sure you identify yourself for your any posts below. Review the helpful information on this page as well as studying the slides.

 

Click on YouTube to see video with captioning

 

Keynote: APA_AB_Scholarly_Workshop_156i.key

Pdf: APA_AB_Scholarly_Workshop_156i.pdf

 

Library Tutorials can be found here (especially "5 Ways to find Articles and Books)

http://tutorials.sjlibrary.org/tutorial/

 

Check out this video on finding scholarly sources

http://libguides.sjsu.edu/content.php?pid=53543&sid=418196

 

This website at Purdue University has a lot of good information on APA and writing annotated bibliographies

http://owl.english.purdue.edu

 

Also,

http://www.nova.edu/…ry/dils/lessons/apa/

 

SJSU Library Databases

SJSU Library Research Databases

 

Using Ulrich's Periodicals Directory to check is a source is scholarly

 

Step #1 Go to the SJSU Library Articles and Databases page > http://library.calstate.edu/sanjose/

Step #2 Select "U" Databases and scroll down Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

Step #3 Click on the link (sign-on if you have not already).

 

Step #4 Copy and paste or type in the name of the PUBLICATION not the article and hit the magnifying class search button.

 

Step #5 Say the title of the publication is the Journal of Communication. Make sure the title is correct, as there are often publications with similar title, for example here it is Communications instead of Communication. Click on the title link.

 

Step #6 On the Basic Description page check to see (1) that there is a "yes" next to Refereed and "Academic/Scholarly" next to Content Type.

Here is an example of a source that is not scholarly/peer reviewed/refereed. A hint on this page that this is not a scholarly source is that under "Serial Type" it says "Magazine."

When you click on link, it takes you here.Note that there is no row labeled as Refereed and under Content Type is says "Consumer." This is not a scholarly source. You may use any sources you wish for your project but you are required to have 6 scholarly sources at a minimum.

 

 

Nico's Formatting Tips for APA references

To get a hanging indent in word 2003 or newer: highlight the entire reference, right click, click paragraph, there should be two pull-down menus. Click the top one, choose "hanging."

 

Here is a list of the suggested journals for the course. These are journals that are "safe" to use, but may exclude some Communication journals (there are a lot!), so please feel free to ask. Generally speaking, any journal sponsored by the National Communication Association or the International Communication Association is okay to use. Please note that many of these journals also carry quantitative articles!

 

American Communication Journal

Communication Education

Communication Monographs

Communication Quarterly

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Discourse and Society

First Monday

Information, Communication, and Society

Information Society

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Journalism of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

Journal of Communication

Journal of Computer Mediated Communication

Journal of Health Communication

Journal of Mass Media Ethics

Journal of New Media and Culture

Journal of Public Relations Research

Journal of Radio Studies

New Media and Society

Political Communication

Public Relations Quarterly

Southern States Communication Journals

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Southern Speech Communication Journal

Text and Performance Quarterly

Western Journal of Speech Communication

Women's Studies in Communication

Western States Communication Journal

 

Comments (12)

ericadeguzman@yahoo.com said

at 5:33 pm on Aug 28, 2011

I’m glad that were covering APA and AB citations again in this class. We covered it last spring semester in your 181F class, but I still left the class feeling a little unsure about my skills with these citations. The workshop was a good refresher. Like last semester, I really enjoy that your workshops are fairly short, easy to follow, and to the point. I especially appreciate all the examples you give in your workshops and how organized they are. Last semester, I found this workshop so helpful I actually bookmarked it on my Safari. The tasks for this workshop was easy to do and helpful as well. I like that with the task I was able to practice doing APA citation and annotate bibliography. Hopefully by the end of this semester (and because I’m taking two classes with you) I’ll have APA and AB down! …Hopefully. ;)

Holly said

at 9:48 am on Aug 30, 2011

I actually learned things about APA that I never knew before. Previously, in essays that require an APA format, I just avoid using citations, particularly inline citations if I do not know how to do them correctly or I am unsure how to do it. I have been on the Owl website (practically lived there for awhile) and this workshop still reveals more information than that. It is useful to force myself to do APA habits because I tend to go back to the comfort of my original essay style before coming to SJSU, which is MLA format. I also use software to cite my essays and I always have to correct the errors!
-Holly Nelson

DeLayne said

at 8:55 pm on Aug 30, 2011

I am glad to be reading over the APA workshop again. It was such a great tool to have last semester and I am glad to have it again. Before last semester I had never been that great at APA or really needed to use it for a class. Though after reading over this workshop last semester I have gotten a lot better. I am still not perfect at it but I am better. I did notice a few helpful changes made to the APA workshop. One thing I did learn from this time around was that you can group cations as long as they are contiguous. The slides I will look back to the most will be the APA checklist and how to organize an annotated bibliography. I recommend that every one save this workshop to use in future classes!

Justine Cranford said

at 8:58 pm on Aug 30, 2011

APA and AB citations have never been a strong subject of mine and usually don't use them unless I have too. With your work shop and the information given above it really gives a clear organized idea of what APA and AB citations really are and how to use them. With looking thought the slides I have a feeling I'll be referring back to them a lot during the semester and glad it's like a one stop shop instead of using different citation sites that will just confuse people. Also i really love seeing the actual examples of these specific citations and so it will really be a great a reference down the line in the future. Very happy we are using this particular work shop again. I really get a lot from it. ;)

David Galan said

at 11:40 am on Aug 31, 2011

Although I became pretty good at this in 151i, I eventually relapsed. This workshop was helpful in making things easier. During the quiz I felt I could correctly identify and even construct correct inline citations. I also felt the easy I felt of constructing reference citations begin to come back to me.(quiz says almost) The AB stuff was helpful too. Like a step by step menu.

Angela Santoro said

at 3:21 pm on Aug 31, 2011

The APA workshop saved my life last year, and I know it will save me, once again, this year as well. The workshop is broken down in so many parts and makes it so much easier to reference while citing all of your sources. Although it is and can be very time consuming, it would take more time if we, as students, had to take the time to visit websites every time we wanted to cite something for a paper, or research project in this class. I can say from experience for students who may not have taken this class already, you will most definitely use this workshop not only in this Comm 156i class, but you will also use it for any class where there is an APA format needed, or an AB. I am so thankful to have this workshop because I have definitely made the best out of it. One of the best and one of my very favorite workshops to do! Thank you!

Anny Wong said

at 4:11 pm on Aug 31, 2011

The APA, annotated bibliography, and scholarly sources workshop was very useful. The library tutorials were similar to the one I did about a year ago in my English 1B class. However, doing the library tutorial the second time was very refreshing. There were some concepts in there which I was shaky about made it clear the second time around. Purdue University’s website for APA and writing annotated bibliographies were super useful that I decided to bookmark it to my internet browser. Personally, I found the Ulrich’s periodicals directory to be more useful than the library’s scholarly section. The school library’s section is great but I felt Ulrich’s periodicals directory to be more organized, more useful, and informative. It was a bit confusing the first time I tried it but the screensaver that Professor Coopman provided made everything more clear since it is step by step. Overall, I felt this workshop helped me clarified a lot of questions I had in finding articles and using the library data base.

valentina berry said

at 6:52 pm on Aug 31, 2011

I'm really glad we covered the APA formatting and especially in an easy breakdown like the slides in this workshop. Having it formatted infront of us like this makes it easy to check back and have a solid reference for when we are doing our work and need to use citations in our research. We can make sure we're doing it the right way and have everything down. I think that having this reminder/reviewing workshop is extremely helpful and will be a great tool for this class as well as others.

Carina Rodriguez said

at 7:07 pm on Aug 31, 2011

This workshop was extremely beneficial! Last semester I took my comm100 class and my professor was very strict when it came to APA sources, citations and work cited within our papers. This was a great refresher and I learned how to do annotated bibliographies. I have not used AB in my papers before, so this was something new to me. I was not aware that all articles on library databases were not peer reviewed. So this will help to check my advanced searches on my database. The workshop also gave good information for proper quotations, now we can distinguish what is right from wrong. Overall, the workshop is a valuable source to keep in mind for our research this semester.

Timothy D. Smith said

at 8:59 pm on Aug 31, 2011

I find it is very important to go over this workshop many time, and by putting it on line you have made that possible. Being in school a very long time and being in one of your classes before I know how important it is to have the APA format down. Even though I have had one of your classes before I still got new things from the workshop that I missed before. With this being online too I am able to go back whenever I need to as well and double check my work. I also find the AB very helpful because this is one of the areas that I always struggled in when it came to turning in papers. I can do APA, MLA, but know exactly what to put in the AB was always tough. Hopefully going through this again will show in my work.

marisa.smith.sjsu@gmail.com said

at 8:16 am on Sep 1, 2011

I am glad after viewing this workshop I have a better grasp on how to use APA. I felt this was very straightforward in explanation and especially did well in explaining the different ways of how to cited sources from different mediums. Especially with having other social science classes throughout our college career, professors have their own perspective how to teach their students APA or just assuming that they know it all together. I am glad that the workshop especially went into depth about doing citations within the text because if I would not had viewed the slides, i know I had had done them incorrectly or put quotes in my paper that would had not benefited the tone of the paper overall.

Bilal Elsakka said

at 10:56 am on Sep 1, 2011

I found the workshop very helpful and beneficial. Every slide was quite cleart and came in handy when doing the quiz. Last semester I was in a good groove regarding the use of APA, but since I didn't use those skills I polished over the summer, they got a bit rusty. This workshop definitely helped me become familiar again with the APA way of doing things.

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