Referencing a Reddit post

So how do we reference a Reddit post in APA style 7th edition? I had a look in the APA manual (American Psychological Association, 2019) and...

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How to cite multiple book chapters

So what is best practice when we needed to APA cite two or more chapters of a single edited book - or how many chapters can we/should we cit...

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Some Heinlein quotes part 3

As previously mentioned ( here ), I have been searching for a Robert Heinlein (RAH) quote around the idea ‘make it idiot-proof and the wor...

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Citing an APA call for papers

I had to ask myself a really curly referencing question, arising from a student online post. The student had found a great summary source on...

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Some Heinlein quotes part 2

As previously mentioned ( here ), I have been searching for a Robert Heinlein (RAH) quote around the idea ‘make it idiot-proof and the wor...

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Building a better idiot part 2

A couple of years ago I wrote a piece on trying to find the source of the ‘make it idiot-proof and the world/universe will build a better id...

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Some Heinlein quotes part 1

In my search for the - potentially - Robert Heinlein ‘make it idiot-proof and the world/universe will build a better idiot’-style quote (w...

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How to source a Whakataukī

A student contacted me, wanting to use a Whakataukī (effectively a Māori 'proverb', but the meaning is more 'sharing of a cultur...

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APA citing webinars

I will often use webinars, or show clips from webinars, in my teaching (with permission, of course). The citation is completely as we woul...

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How to cite and reference TV shows

Ah, the tricky work of correctly APA citing TV shows! It was only when writing a recent post that I realised that I hadn't written an en...

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Referencing a revised classic book edition

How do we cite and reference a classic book that has been reissued with an introduction from another scholar? I ran into this problem recent...

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Building a better idiot

Well. I have a bit of a conundrum. I seem to recall that in a Heinlein book, the author, Robert Anson Heinlein had one of his characters say...

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How to cite and reference films

Ah, the tricky work of correctly APA citing films! It was only when writing a recent post that I realised that I hadn't written an entry...

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Italicising blog references

Did you know that, when APA referencing, we were supposed to italicise the blog title? I had always assume that we indicate, with italics, t...

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AI Hallucination

I have a burning question around the validity of AI. I have run my own tests ( here ) in ChatGPT, where I felt that the hype around AI was j...

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Referencing a 'with' author

So here is an interesting one: how do we APA reference a "with" author? This is where there is a clear 'lead' author, but ...

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Citing personal communication

If we have obtained material from having interviewed someone, from having had an email conversation, or having recorded a conversation or an...

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