Abstract
Students often take Sociology courses with knowledge of other disciplinary styles of citing source materials. This lesson highlights key differences between the American Sociological Association (ASA) style of in-text and bibliographic citations and the Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) styles. Materials...
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Details
- Subject Area(s):
- Capstone Courses, Other, Research Methods, Theory
- Resource Type(s):
- Class Activity
- Class Level(s):
- Any Level
- Class Size(s):
- Any
Usage Notes
USAGE NOTES
Advanced undergraduate courses for Sociology majors may require students to use the American Sociological Association (ASA) style to reference source material. Students often come into Sociology lacking prior experience with ASA style. Yet they usually have experience with APA and MLA styles. This lesson teaches ASA style through...
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Learning Goals and Assessments
Learning Goal(s):
- Identify the basic components of ASA in-text and bibliographic citations of books and scholarly journal articles.
- Recognize style formatting differences between ASA, APA, and MLA in-text and bibliographic citations of books and scholarly journal articles.
- Apply ASA style when formatting in-text and bibliographic citations of books and scholarly journal articles.
Goal Assessment(s):
- 1) On the provided worksheet, students identify ASA in-text and bibliographic citations of books and scholarly journal articles.
- 2) In the papers students write later in the semester, they correctly apply ASA style to in-text and bibliographic citations of books and scholarly journal articles.
- 3) On quizzes, they notice the content and exact punctuation of ASA in-text and bibliographic citations of books and scholarly journal articles.
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