Critical Reading and Research: APA Citation Style Assignment - Week 3

This assignment focuses on APA citation style, critical reading, and research skills. The student selected three main points from a journal article, providing direct quotes and rationales for their choices. The assignment then requires the student to paraphrase these main points, demonstrating their understanding of the article's key ideas. The student's work highlights common challenges in APA citation, such as errors related to misclassification of source material and the importance of practice and attentiveness. The assignment also underscores the impact of students' habits, preferences for digital resources, and their thought processes on their citation accuracy. The provided solution helps students understand the key concepts of APA citation, critical reading, and paraphrasing and provides valuable insights into the challenges students face while learning APA citation.

Running head: APA CITATION STYLE
APA Citation Style
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Main point 1: “We learned, in accord with social cognitive theory (Svinicki, 2004), that practice
seemed to improve performance, showing that familiarity and attentiveness to the task were
important success factors.” (Van Note Chism & Weerakoon 2012, p. 35)
Rationale 1: With the help of this quotation, the author pointed out the importance of regular
practice in order to master APA style citation. The researchers have found that error mainly takes
place due to lack of experience, proficiency as well as lack of practice. Students who are in the
early phase of graduation, they often tend to practice less. However, they try their best to
demonstrate that by considering them eligible for the program, the organization has not made
any mistake. It has been found that while performing some style of APA station seems to imprve
with practice, others needs repeated modeling of complicated, quirky r contradictory experiences
that enhances the time span of mastering the APA style citation.
Main point 2: “Students ‘error patterns were often related to their misperception of how the
source material should be classified.” (Van Note Chism & Weerakoon 2012, p. 33)
Rational 2: It has been found that while majority of the students finds it easier to recognize book
chapters, articles, journals an others for APA style citation. Howver, they faces difficulties while
separately-titled volumes in a series, conference presentations, and electronic sources. Choosing
the wrong category of publication meant choosing a model entry that would accommodate.
Main point 3: “Our explorations yielded important understandings on the thought processes and
habits that students used in routine APA tasks, “logical mistakes” they made, their
understandings of their own thinking processes (metacognition), and preference for digital rather
than print resources.” (Learning a citation style like APA is important as it helps in academic and

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research activities such as retrieving documents for verification.” (Van Note Chism &
Weerakoon 2012, p. 30)
Rationale 3: After analyzing the data, it has been found that the thought process as well as habits
of the students is responsible for the mistakes in citations that happen. Students make logical
mistakes due to lack of understanding of their process of thinking. Another reason that is
responsible for the mistake includes their preference for digital resources over print resources.
However, the research failed to identify the key type of conceptual difficulty and this in turn led
the researchers to explore several factors that are involved in this type of learning skills.
Paraphrase: It has found from the research that according to social cognitive theory, practice
helps the students to enhance their performances. This in turn demonstrates the fact that
familiarity as well as attentiveness towards a particular task is the lead actors that has the
potential to lead to success. The error pattern, when to comes to APA style citation, has been
found that the error pattern of the students are often associated with their misperception about the
method of classification of the source material. The exploration of the researchers yielded crucial
understanding of the habits of the students, their AP Citation routine and mistakes. it has been
found that majority of them prefer digital recourses instead of printed ones.

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Reference List
Van Note Chism, N., & Weerakoon, S. (2012). APA, Meet Google: Graduate students'
approaches to learning citation style. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and
Learning, 12(2), 27-38.