Today's struggle, or should I say yesterday's struggle because it is now after 1 am, has been working on my critique. A one-page critique, for me, should have been an absolute breeze, a walk in the park, a piece of cake, or other cliche analogy. I spent a good bit of time researching another article because the article I had intended to use is too old for the parameters of the assignment. Then, my next hurdle was to research what format to use, looking at all kinds of apa sites, examples, descriptions of annotated bibliographies, apa format for bibliographic entries. The bottom line is I am really tired and I feel like I am so out of the college loop. I am not sure the papers I am doing are in quite the correct format, according to APA style, but I am giving it my best shot. As near as I can figure, Dr. Nita just wants the bibliographic information in the APA format but the format of the critique is more loosely interpreted. At least that is my hope. If I am too far off base, I hope to find out before I attempt critique #2.
I've been working on this article since this morning--This is my day--Took kids to school, then Erik to Therapy, then Erik and Greg to Mom's for babysitting (thank you Mom), then back home to shower and make cupcakes and wrap gift for baby shower tonight, then to husband's school to drop off lunch, then back to Mom's to work on article for about 2 hours, then to pick up 3 oldest kids from school, then home and bring in 3 year old grumpy and crying because he needs a nap, then prepare supper, then scurry to church to set up for baby shower, frost cupcakes there and set up room for shower, then home, then kids to bed, then hug husband, then eat supper, then start work again on homework, then 4 hours later, I am going to bed. If I survive the next two years, I will have earned my degree (sigh).
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Laurie,
ReplyDeleteA fellow librarian (who actually completed this program we're in now) told me about a site that will cite the information for you. All you have to do is put in the information. I thought this might be beneficial to you. I've already used it myself. It sure does beat looking throught a manual or searching the net on how to cite something. The website is www.citationmachine.net. I hope you can use this. C-ya later.