The APA is an essential reference guide for all students and practitioners in the social and behavioral sciences. The purpose of this Discussion is to assist you in becoming familiar with and applying key parts of the manual. For this Discussion, you will play the role of an editor who must provide feedback to the writer, identifying and correcting flaws in the writers use of citations, quotes, and references. How would you make the writers work reflect the language of the profession? Review your paired colleagues post. Provide constructive feedback to help improve any aspect of his or her APA format editing. Post your feedback to your colleagues work in the same Discussion thread. Remember to be professional in your communications and when providing feedback. Learning APA format is difficult; you are not expected to catch everything the first time! In general, when one
researches what helps students learn APA format, the sources usually suggest a lot of practice. You will be expected to put your main Discussion responses and Assignments in APA format in all of your graduate courses, so you will, indeed, get this practice. Peer reviews are also noted as one way to effectively receive feedback. an explanation of the process that you followed in order to provide feedback to your partner. What did you learn about APA format or the as a result of this exercise? Do you feel the references that were cited were scholarly sources of information for the paper? Why or why not? What did you learn from the feedback that you received that will improve your APA-format writing style? a selection of your colleagues postings. to at least two colleagues by providing an example or personal experience that illustrates one of the points made by your colleagues.