TRU Writing Centre created two videos for students about APA style and TRU’s academic integrity policies.
“APA in a Nutshell” (10 minutes) https://youtu.be/e0C1C_miJBE
“Academic Integrity in a Nutshell” (7 minutes) https://youtu.be/_VqX2UR2xVM
Editing and Intellectual Property teams joined forces for a good cause: Donating purse care packages (make-up, toiletries, gloves, etc.) for Kamloops Y Women’s Shelter. Our union (CUPE 4879) and Kamloops and District Labour Council organized the event. “We were expecting to put together 50 purses but with the overwhelming inpouring of donations, we ended up with…
Required Hardware, Software, Computer Skills, and Other Resources • change to http://www.tru.ca/distance/services/student-orientation/technical-basics.html Technical Support change two URLs: • “…the correct hardware and software required for your course at http://www.tru.ca/distance/services/student-orientation/technical-basics.html.” • “… go to the IT Service Desk at http://www.tru.ca/distance/contact/helpdesk.html.” Student Café • Change to http://www.tru.ca/distance/services/student-orientation/online-discussions.html
New process! Don’t include OL_Production on editing workflow emails. This refers to introductory emails (“I’ve begun editing…”) and the final emails (“files are in pre-production folder…”). Keep writing notes for Production on the files, and summarize any concerns in your final email to Curriculum Services. CS will send the notes to Production after sign-off.
Our style guide formats bulleted or numbered lists with an introductory colon, a capital letter at the beginning of each listed item, and no punctuation at the end (unless the items in the list are complete sentences or they complete the sentence). If the list includes nouns, it might look like: Natural history Natural selection…
Kudos to Mona Hall for researching and validating our house style! Ongoing PhD studies are not listed on the Copyright and Credits page of the course guide; therefore, do not include credentials such as: Title (year): Name, PhD(c) Title (year): Name, PhD(candidate) Title (year): Name, PhD(ABD) Title (year): Name, PhD(all but dissertation) See also APA’s The Misuse…
APA issued an update to their style guide in March 2017: http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2017/03/doi-display-guidelines-update-march-2017.html. The new recommendation is to use a live link to the DOI instead of just listing the numbers. We can still use the old style while we gradually move to the new recommendation. So, for example, here’s the old style: Fred, H. L., &…