This year I have discovered the joys of the reference tool
on Microsoft Office. Prior to this I had laboriously entered each reference by
hand, making sure it was in the acceptable format (American Psychological
Association or APA) and always ending up with an adverse comment from the tutor
marking the piece saying I still
hadn’t done it quite right. If you
have never had to do references, take it from me - it is totally boring...and
as soon as you sit down to do your first essay make friends with the reference
tool!
Here is an example of how a reference has to be entered in
APA format:
Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Women's
Health. (2012). The Mitchell method of simple relaxation. Retrieved
April 14, 2012, from The Association of Chatered Physiotherapists in Women's
Health: http://www.csp.org.uk/sites/files/csp/secure/acpwh-mitchell_0.pdf
Beck, A. (1991). Cognitive therapy and the
emotional disorders. London: Penguin.
Bruch, M. (1998). The UCL case formulation model:
Clinical applications and procedures. In M. Bruch, & F. W. Bond, Beyond
Diagnosis Case formulation Aproaches in CBT (pp. 19-41). Chchester, West
Sssex, UK: John Wiley & Sons Limited.
Now it may look pretty straightforward but you have to get all the
commas and full stops in the right places, space it perfectly then put all the
bits in the right order, know what goes in italics and what doesn’t and then
make sure the right lines are indented by the right amount and then double space it all – whew!
When I did my degree we used a different system called the
Harvard Referencing System and so I found it a complete faff to have to change
to a new system.
...anyway the joys of academia!!
I have also discovered some other wonderful things thanks to
my resident IT consultant. If you include tables in your text the words are
counted as part of the auto word count.
However if you convert the table to a pdf document and then take a
screen shot, it becomes a picture and the individual words aren’t counted. I
managed to lose 90 words with that little trick!
And then I have finally mastered the document ‘Styles’ tool
so that my latest piece of work looks beautifully uniform with lovely titles
and headings. Now hopefully the tutor marking
it will be suitably impressed!
So with all my usual angst this week getting the course work
done, unfortunately our lovely three day
trip to Paris the week before Easter is a distant memory.
We had been invited to stay with our wonderful San
Franciscan cousins who had rented a flat in St Sulpice. We arrived to perfect Spring weather with no
rain and blossoms everywhere. We walked
at least 10 miles each day, caught some great art exhibitions, engaged in lots
of people watching, got to enjoy the totally wonderful architecture and ate the
best croissants ever. Being situated
directly opposite the church, we were woken each morning to the sounds of the
bells calling the faithful to prayer.
My cousin told me of
a fascinating place – the Shakespeare and Company bookshop situated on the left
bank in Paris opposite the Notre Dame.
I can hardly believe that I have never come across it
before. I would have loved to have
lolled around on one of the sofa’s tucked away in the corners indulging my love
of reading but unfortunately it has become a victim of its own success – there
was a steady stream of tourists doing exactly what I was doing – rubber necking
in total fascination!
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