I gave up requiring strict APA style over 20 years ago as irrelevant to most of my students. Very few of them are ever going to publish in an APA journal -- those can learn it in Grad school.
I've adapted the basic elements of APA formatting (see my lab manual) so that students are familiar with the basic organization and know where to find things and something about the process behind the material in different sections of a research report.
Is there a theological term for APA Publication Guide literalists?
(there are plenty of psychological characterizations that fit;-).
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The only reason I persist in requiring this style (even for those I suspect will not use it again) is because in just about any job I can imagine in which employees have to do some kind of writing, SOME kind of standardized format _will_ be required. The client will want the documents that you prepare for him or her to be in a particular format, or the discipline in which you find yourself working will have some kind of conventional format, etc. (oops!;-)) I tell students that this is and will be the case, and that they might as well get used to having to comply with a specific set of formatting instructions.
--Kathy Morgan
Wheaton College
Norton, MA 02766
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