Dr. Borel began the web conference reviewing the critical
dates calendar. I found this helpful as I was able to update my calendar and
know when my future classes started and stopped. She also reiterated what
updates to TK20 that are due by week 5. This was also helpful to be reminded of
those tasks since week 5 is just around the corner and there is still a lot of
work to be done. However the most helpful part of the web conference was Dr.
Borel’s turorial in our APA assignment. I learned through question number 3
that it is important to make sure that the text is double spaced and that the
first line is left justified and the other lines following must be formatted as
hanging margins which is a five space indentation. When citing a quotation the year must follow
the author and placed in parenthesis. When Dr. Borel examined question 4, she
taught us that when paraphrasing authors, the page number does not have to be
included and the names of the authors do not need to be mentioned twice. She
also talked about when to use the ampersand symbol and when it is not
appropriate, yet I found this to be a touch confusing. During the review of
number 8, the most interesting thing I learned was that the title of the book
was formatted in italics and only the first word was capitalized. It was
insightful to learn how to format a quote from a website during the review of
question number 1 since that introductory question seemed to be one of the most difficult.
