Agreed that copy editors can take care of APA Style trivia, and
reviewers should usually pay them little attention, but TP Orientation is not a
trivial issue -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation . The
data clearly show that TP orientation is a powerful predictor of intellectual
capacity, social success, personality, and political affiliation.
That said, I do try to point out even trivial APA Style problems on
theses and dissertations -- these can cause a student's graduation to be
delayed if the students gets a reviewer at the Graduate School who prefers the
under TP orientation.
Cheers,
Karl L. Wuensch
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From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 9:14 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang
Violence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
I'm currently Associate Editor for an APA journal (Journal of Abnormal
Psychology), and I probably shouldn't say this, but....
The minutae of APA style just aren't considered all that important when
evaluating manuscripts, as copy-editors will take care of most of the details.
Unless APA style violations in manuscripts are pretty egregious, reviewers
rarely make a big deal about them. Have served on the editorial boards of
three other APA journals, my impressions there haven't been much different.
....Scott
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From: Christopher Green [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 5:39 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang
Violence | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
I am perennially fascinated/horrified by the interest questions pertaining to
APA style seem to generate. They just seem to me to be of about the same level
of scholarly import as are, say, fights over whether the toilet paper should go
over or under the roll.
Sure, students need to be familiar with stylistic issues, but the details of
any stylistic prescription rank so far below, well, just about everything else,
from an intellectual perspective... The level of drill and perfection required
by some astonishes me. (Full disclosure: I was once an APA style maven, but
then I started writing for journals that required other styles, and I gradually
realized what a wasteful and arbitrary matter most of it is.)
I think this Onion piece puts things nicely in perspective (and notice that APA
isn't even a "player").
http://www.theonion.com/articles/4-copy-editors-killed-in-ongoing-ap-style-chicago,30806/
Discussion? Retribution?
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M6C 1G4
Canada
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