I should tell you that I'm not an APA expert. What I am is an Ed School doctoral student. So, I've written lots of papers using APA Format. In other words, I've traveled this path before and I've discovered some of the "pot holes," "bumps in the road," and "detours" that can throw you off track. As a HGSE TF, I noticed there were a number of formatting rules that tend to case difficulty for students. So, I created this talk to help students avoid some of the most common mistakes . . .

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) allows one to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,600 scholarly and technical journals (5,900 science and 1,700 social science journals) from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. JCR can show  the most frequently cited journals in a field and the highest impact journals in a field. More specifically, JCR enables users to sort journal data by clearly defined fields: Impact Factor, Immediacy Index, Total Cites, Total Articles, Cited Half-Life, or Journal Titles. Citation statistics are from 1999 up to 2006.

publications indexed by Thompson Scientific’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR) as well as . . . the approximately 110,000 other journals, books, newspapers, and other reference items that are referred to by these publications. . . . Our approach is to rank journals much as Google ranks Web pages. While Google uses the network of hyperlinks on the Web, we use citations in the academic literature as tallied by JCR. By this approach, we aim to identity the most “influential” journals, where a journal is considered to be influential if it is cited often by other influential journals. While this might sound hopelessly circular, it is not: we can iteratively calculate the importance of each journal in the citation network by a simple mathematical algorithm. . . .  This iterative ranking scheme, which we call Eigenfactor, accounts for the fact that a single citation from a high-quality journal may be more valuable than multiple citations from peripheral publications. We measure the importance of a citation by the influence of the citing journal divided by the total number of citations appearing in that journal. This corrects for differences across disciplines and journals in the propensity to cite other papers. For example, a citation from a review article that has cursory references to large numbers of papers counts for less than a citation from a research article that cites only papers that are essentially related to its own argument.

This is a large bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered range from early childhood to higher education, and pertain to all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals. It also includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers.

Academic OneFile offers access to more than 8,000 publications. The coverage is multi-disciplinary. Most entries provide the full text, with extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature. There are also podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN, CBC and full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily. Education and related subjects are well represented.

The one hour tutorial begins with an introduction of academic integrity as a cornerstone of good scholarship and helping students understand the basic rules.  Continuing through the tutorial, students will understand the proper way to cite and acknowledge sources with a focus on careful note-taking, paraphrasing and quoting.  Next, students will address the ethics of collaborative work and research as well as how to plan for research.  The use of scholarly resources is explained and highlighted.  Lastly, the tutorial provides links for future reference. . . . MORE