For those of you preparing your dissertations and masters, there will be new procedures in place after July 15. Specifically, as part of the dissertation defense paperwork or the masters submission process, you will receive a detailed list of common style errors. This list is not exhaustive nor is it meant to replace the APA Publication Manual, but it is intended to help you avoid a very lengthy process of multiple revisions.
You will be asked to sign a document indicating that you have reviewed your thesis for compliance with APA style. Once a certain, very limited number of mistakes are found in the document, review of your document will stop, the document will be returned to you with those mistakes marked, and you will be responsible for re-reviewing the document for compliance to APA style. Once you have completed your re-review, you may submit the document for a second style check. Failure of the second style check may have entail required consequences, such as paid copy editing.
In addition, deadlines will be adjusted and implemented. Dissertations will be due for APA style clearance within a specified window of time after the defense.
More details will be posted in the fall after formal adoption by the faculty, but students are encouraged to remember that it is part of their professional responsibility to be able to write in APA style.
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