So, I am in the midst of writing yet another grad paper (last one for this class, yeah!) and we had a class meeting on campus yesterday. I decided to attend because a. I love meeting people face to face and asking clarifying questions (so much can be lost in an email) but also b. APA format scares me/confuses me and I want to make sure that I am somewhere on the right path.
The meeting was very nice, just our professor and 2 other students, and we talked, got to know each other a little more and got all of our questions answered. One of my questions happened to be about my kindle and adding a reference from a downloaded book into my paper in APA format.
I am currently reading Making Learning Visible (MLV), from a Project Zero and Reggio Emilia partnership and I love it! I am applying many of the strategies and practices into my own teaching and love the outcomes! Anyway, so my question happened to be 1. how to properly cite my source in my reference section of my paper, but also 2. how to site my in-text reference and 3. how in the world do I find a page number when all I can see are % at the bottom? it was a lengthy question
My professor showed me a neat little trick that I can do with the Kindle that eased all my worries! I had to do a few little steps first....
1. I downloaded the Kindle app onto my Mac laptop.
2. I logged in and "opened" my MLV book
3. I highlighted a section that I wanted to add to my paper
4. Copied said section
5. Opened a pages document
6. Pasted said section into document and .....BAM!!!
Not only is my highlighted section there, BUT there is also a cited reference with Kindle reference page numbers!! Hello, does it for you! It's amazing!
Long story short, copy and paste from kindle book into a document and it cites it for you.
Now, I only get to read 5 more articles, synthesize them into my paper, finish writing my paper and I am good to go! Where's the coffee.......
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