To see Eric Landrum's APA style videos that Paul listed below as well as some others, visit this ToPIX page: http://topix.teachpsych.org/w/page/19980970/APA%20Style%20Videos.
-- Sue Frantz <http://people.highline.edu/sfrantz/> Highline Community College Psychology Des Moines, WA 206.592.3404 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> APA Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology<http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/syllabi.php>; Vice President for Resources Editor, APA's Online Psychology Lab<http://opl.apa.org/> APA Membership Board<http://www.apa.org/about/governance/bdcmte/membership-committee.aspx> Technology for Academics blog: SueFrantz.com<http://suefrantz.com/> Twitter: @WorthPsychTLC & @Sue_Frantz From: Paul C Bernhardt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 10:19 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] APA Style and Microsoft Word Issues A list that I deal with is below. By the way, Eric Landrum did a great series of videos on how to get Word to do your bidding. While a version of Word behind, they are still very helpful for many students. Setting Margins: http://bit.ly/rg4LYF Page Headers: http://bit.ly/ooLKMh Line Spacing: http://bit.ly/p2uAF0 Others (references!): http://bit.ly/ng5jIf Word's defaults to have extra space between paragraphs so you don't have true double spacing without fixing it. It is not obvious in any version of word how to fix it (Format: Paragraph: Set space before and after paragraphs to 0 and make sure it is set to not give extra space between paragraphs of the same type). Word's margins by default are 1.25" instead of 1". New version of word is easier and a bit more obvious how to fix this. Word by default does not allow widow and orphans lines on pages, so you don't get remotely close to 1" margins at the bottom without fixing it. Headings will not be properly centered if there is an indent set on that line. Students often don't understand how incredibly valuable setting a page break can be to make sure that certain sections are always on new pages. They often put numerous line feeds into the document then have to adjust every time they edit anything. Student often confuse what Word calls a Heading 1, Heading 2, etc. with what APA calls Heading Level 1, Heading Level 2, etc. thinking they are the same thing. Students often do not know how to set a 'right flush tab' so that they can set the page number 1" from the right edge of the paper. And, recounting this has me now suffering a fear sweat reaction by reminding me I soon will be grading a bunch of Research Methods papers. Thanks! <grin> Paul On Oct 29, 2012, at 12:30 AM, Sally Walters wrote: Hi Jim, Definitely hanging indents. Also headers, especially when title page is different, and page numbers. Paragraphs e.g. indent paragraph automatically. Centering text mid-page. on title page. Sally -----Original Message----- From: Jim Clark Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:10 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] APA Style and Microsoft Word Issues Hi What are some of the APA style requirements that students find difficult to implement because they have not figured out how to do it properly in Word? I'm thinking of things like hanging indents and aligning decimal values (e.g., in a correlation matrix). Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13530.e96560b68b0d11e80e48fb30b5f8b01d&n=T&l=tips&o=21358 or send a blank email to leave-21358-13530.e96560b68b0d11e80e48fb30b5f8b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-21358-13530.e96560b68b0d11e80e48fb30b5f8b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=21359 or send a blank email to leave-21359-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-21359-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=225245.50caf5583ba1a0fd23887a4c076b3265&n=T&l=tips&o=21361 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-21361-225245.50caf5583ba1a0fd23887a4c076b3...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-21361-225245.50caf5583ba1a0fd23887a4c076b3...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=21364 or send a blank email to leave-21364-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
