Hmmm, good question. I suspect it would be up to the instructor. THe
only reason I may not is I have to provide them a means to give
feedback and they or at least my last instructor made comments inside
the document. So, good question and something I'll have to check when
the next course starts.
tnx
On Dec 24, 2008, at 2:07 PM, Ryan Mann wrote:
Would you absolutely have to turn them in Word format? I'm asking
because I know for a fact that Latex documents can be converted to
PDF format. Maybe you could turn them in that way.
On Dec 24, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Scott Howell wrote:
Justin, I suspect your right, but since these papers are turned in
electronically, I suspect I'll have to turn them in as Microsoft
Word files. If I could convert Latex to Word without any issues, I
might just go that route. The big deal with APA formatting is it
must be double spaced, not a problem in Word, but the reference
page has to have the first part of the reference against the left
margin and indented something like five spaces. THe problem in WOrd
as far as I am concerned is knowing exactly where the text is. I
got dinged for this despite my best efforts in trying to get the
text where it should be. Thanks for the idea, it is certainly one
worth exploring.
On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
Hi Scott
I've tried open office a bit and it looks to me like you'd
probably have better luck with microsnot word. Have you tried
nisus writer express? I'm not exactly familiar with all the
requirements for writing an APA paper, but if the main place where
you are losing points is in the bibliography, an if the only
matter is indentations, you might just try writing the bib
separately in textedit. It won't do any smart tag stuff without
you knowing and you could just manually format each entry with
whatever it requires.
That said it sounds like you'd be doing a lot more work than yu
need. If you are seriously going to be writing papers like this
for years to come, it might be worth the time invested in learning
how to typeset with LaTeX. I am like 98 percent confident that
LaTeX could make formatting an APA paper a trivial process if you
don't mind a few lines of code here and there. Again, sure it may
not be easy in the beginning, but if you are going to be writing
papers like this for a number of years, it might be worth it in
the long run.
Regards
Justin Harford
Scott Howell
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