In conversations with my MALAT colleagues and through reading their blog posts, a recurring theme that resounds is an unfamiliarity and lack of confidence with academic writing. Most lament the points lost due to incorrectly formatted submissions or improper citations. I have experienced a similar journey, learning many valuable lessons along the way. Please join me in sending our LRNT 521 Professor a hearty shout out for her detailed and helpful feedback. Thanks, Elizabeth!<\/p>\n
For about the last five or six years I sat on the proposal team as a labour market research expert and would estimate that I participated in writing over fifty bids. Feedback from my section always garnered top marks and became a key component in our leading practice success criteria. In fact, based on this success, I was tasked to lead a project that helped to provide structure and support to other leaders in our organization who needed to complete research. As I began my MALAT journey and reviewed our evaluation rubric, I found myself thinking that the toughest part was going to be the content, not the format. Boy, was I wrong.<\/p>\n
What I now realize is that I have forgotten a lot of the bits and pieces that drive the structure of academic writing over the years. Our responses to the requests for proposals described above did always have criteria, but the criteria were based on a selection criteria rubric, and didn\u2019t specify any formatting criteria, other than the maximum length of the document and preferred fonts.<\/p>\n
In this assignment we were directed to review two resources from the Royal Road University Writing Centre<\/a>, including: how<\/a> to write an academic\u00a0paragraph and writing using\u00a0APA style<\/a>. Although I have reviewed both before, I enjoyed digging in a bit deeper this time, armed with a critical lens based on feedback from my LRNT 521 assignments.<\/p>\n Another resource that I uncovered this time and would recommend that all MALAT students bookmark is the APA Help Guide<\/a>. I am excited to leverage this tool when I\u2019m searching to discover the correct way to cite different types of resources. Since I have had recurring feedback from my assignments recommending that I place more emphasis on transitions, I found a great resource on the topic of transitions<\/a>. If you have experienced similar feedback, I would highly recommend that you give it a review.<\/p>\n Twitter has also been a fulsome source of inspiration and information for me since starting the #RRUMALAT journey.\u00a0 If you are not already leveraging Twitter, I would highly recommend that you start. A couple of great hashtags to get you started are:\u00a0 #phdchat, #academicwriting and #acwri.\u00a0 From there, you can find your favourite contributors and see where your journey takes you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In conversations with my MALAT colleagues and through reading their blog posts, a recurring theme that resounds is an unfamiliarity and lack of confidence with academic writing. Most lament the points lost due to incorrectly formatted submissions or improper citations. I have experienced a similar journey, learning many valuable lessons along the way. Please join … Continue reading Reflections on APA citation and academic writing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt522"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0008\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}