Mid Term Make Up

Analyzing a Review on the Light of APA Requirements

      Academic writing is a complex process that requires the writer to follow certain conventions. As the world of academic writing is very broad, when consulting sources or mentioning other people’s ideas in one’s work, it is essential to cite properly so as to avoid plagiarism as required by APA style.  The aim of this paper is to analyze Nelson’s (2012) Review of Deconstructing Digital Natives, on the light of APA requirements in relation to the use of in-text citations.

     First of all, there are several instances of in-text citations included in Nelson’s (2012) piece of writing. When the author makes reference to the title of the source consulted, he uses capitalization and italics to cite. In addition to this, the author includes short quotations in his review; but even though he mentions the author’s name in a signal phrase, he also includes this information after the quotation including, the author’s name again, the date of the publication in parentheses and the page number, this writing style may not fulfill APA requirements for in-text citations.

      There is also an instance of long quotation included in which the author separates the quotation from the text omitting quotation marks, double spacing is not maintained and there is no parenthetical citation included after the final punctuation mark.

     Taking everything into account, it could be stated that Nelson (2012) does not seem to adjust his work to the requirements of APA style in his piece of writing; this makes the whole work inconsistent and difficult to follow.

 

  

 

 

References

Nelson,M.(2012).Review of Deconstructing Digital Natives: Language Learning & Technology.16, (3), 35-39 Retrieved October 2012 from http://IIt.msu.edu/issues/october2012/reviewI.pdf