Hi, my name is Ricky kaplan and i am the coordinator for our CBAT
communications lab. The college of business and technology here at ETSU
has communications lab located in room 124 of Sam Wilson our hours vary by
semester but please stop by and see us. We will be glad to help you with using the
APA manual the APA manual is what has been adopted by the college of business
and technology here at ETSU for formatting all the papers unless
otherwise specified by a professor. So if you're asked to write any type of paper
you should be using the APA format. At this time we're using the sixth edition
and I'd like to talk to you a little bit about that today. The APA manual is a
resource on how to formulate and cite papers. So the manual can be kind of
intimidating at first, so i have to take in a couple of pages and scan them in so
that i can show you how you're going to be using them. All of our tutors and
graduate assistants are trained in using the APA manual and they'll be glad to
help you with this and walk you through on how to use it also. So I'm looking up
citations, citations are what most people have issue with so looking up citations
I can take a look at the appropriate level i can take a look at previous
published materials with quotations or citations in text and attacks etc let's
start with citations in text is telling us the 6.11 26.2 one then comma 174 to
179 this 174 to 179 are your page numbers that's what page
you will find this on in the manual. now the manual that I have is a spiral-bound
they also come in just the straight bound I paperback books and that's what
we use in the lab the 6.1 to 6.21 is the sections so it could be one section
can take up multiple pages or the section could be just on one page so if
we take a look at this first section on page 174 and it's citing references in
text gives a little brief overview and then it goes down to 6.1 it one which is
one work by one author and it will tell you how to do it and then it will show
you an example again gives you another way and shows you an example so this is
what it's going to take a look like in the actual man you manual and you'll be
able to use that now how many of you only do work at one place put the manual
there put the stuff you need by your side and you're fine not a problem
how many of you travel you might be in the library you could be sitting in a
Barnes & Noble or books-a-million or starbucks somebody someplace doing some
work I've been known to work in the airport or at a rest stop
if I'm driving somewhere. So what are some resources online you know
smartphones everybody has a smartphone today, so where can you take a look up
this information if you need it
well one of the best places to look is the Purdue owl and if you just go to google
and type in Purdue owl it will take you to the Purdue University's online
Writing Lab.
Welcome to the Purdue owl
this allows you to electronically find the answers to your questions.
We're doing research and citation here and again for the college of business
and technology here at ETSU we use the APA style, so we'll click on that and if
I go and take a look
it's going to tell me a brief workshop summary some notes what is APA? Why do I
use APA, and then i'm going to get into the formatting and writing styles which
again I can take here to the drop-down box and go directly to what I'm looking
for or i can actually read down this page so this is going to help you if
you're if you don't have the manual with you so it is an electronic resource and
they actually, the Purdue online Writing Lab the Purdue owl is the writing center
to emulate and when we first started our communications lab we got in touch with
the Purdue owl and said they're writing center and said can you help us were
just starting
what do we need to do what should we do how do we grow how do we do these things
very nice to help us out and we still send people to their online writing lab
because we were not as big as they are yet, so this is actually out there for a
resource resource for anyone to use anywhere and they are very nice about
that and we thank them for that.
So go ahead and use this for your online work, if you are not at a place where you
can talk to somebody at the communications lab or I you don't have
the manual with you you have questions you can always go here to find out
information
and so good luck with your writing i hope you do well and come visit us at
the communications lab in room 122 or 124 excuse me of Sam Wilson and we'll be
glad to work with you with the APA formatting. Thank you.