Purdue OWL sports citation generator

What a pleasant surprise it was to find that the Purdue University Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) now displays a user-friendly citation generator embedded near the top of APA Style pages from the APA Overview and Workshop page downstream.

Purdue OWL navigation sidebar, 2019.03.13

Image source: APA Formatting and Style Guide–General Format page

The citation generator produced the following website citation for that particular page:

Purdue Writing Lab. (n.d.). General Format // Purdue Writing Lab. Retrieved from https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html

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WSBlog Bedtime + Best Biblio's and PFs

Eight years I plugged away at chronicling, filtering, modelling, showcasing, recycling, reflecting, and reviewing in posts for students on the Writing Studio Blog (WSBlog). During that time, I learned a lot about blogging with students, and there have been several satisfying advances in Blogger blog affordances as well, for example the advent of pages, and the threading of comments on posts.

Blogger renamed widgets gadgets, and baked many new ones in, which made them easy for casual bloggers such as English-as-an-additional-language learners to use. The link roll on the WSBlog has grown to almost a page in length, and the label cloud, to almost a page and a half (actual size). Embeddable external-source gadgetry like Cluster Maps and Flag Counter indicate[s] that the WSBlog had over 7,000 (perhaps not unique) visitors in the four years up till November 2014, and that there have been well over 18,000 page views since August 2010.

Though I'm relatively certain that those aren't the largest numbers in the blogosphere, they're large enough to reflect on with a certain degree of satisfaction. Regrettably, however, RSS services that colleagues and I had adopted to concatenate feeds of independent learner blog entries for inclusion in our teaching blogs went the way many free or inexpensive services do, and workarounds never quite made it back to the stage of single feeds to display posts from multiple blogs in now standard RSS gadgets–so much to do, and so little time to do it.

Before I put the WSBlog into suspended animation (from which it might snore itself awake from time to time), I'd like to do one more little bit of showcasing–this time not for students in successive cohorts, but rather for those in classes which finished meeting last month. They sat exams on January 28, 2015.

To wrap things up for now, I'd like to point out to class members and their near-peers a few of the best bibliographies–modified APA-style lists of books that individual students reviewed, and the most reflective portfolios (PFs) in pages that students added or linked to their blogs.

• Students, please remember that if you aren't logged in to your university accounts, Google documents and spreadsheets stored on the university site will be invisible. 

• Please also note that for the PFs themselves, the writing before, between and after the iframes was more important than the activities and progress represented within the iframes.

Without further adieu, ...

Best biblio's (book listings):

1. Takahiro's, 
2. Nana's, and
3. Rina's (includes a good first go at a movie listing, too); and 

Best PFs:

1. Misaki's
2. Miri's and Nana's (tie), and
3. Kazuyo's.

Many thanks to all!

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More Practically Perfect Predecessors' Portfolios

As you are developing your own portfolios, I'd like to ask you to do the following. Please:

1. View the slides in the presentation embedded below, 
2. Follow the instructions on slide two and slide three, and 
3. Review the portfolios that you find via the links on slide four. 

Then please return to this post, and add a comment explaining which of your predecessors's portfolios you think is the best from each section (§1A and §1C), and why you think so.

Thank you in advance for you cooperation.

__________
Note: This post reuses and revises text from a previous post (Practically Perfect Predecessors' Portfolios, 2013.07.13) with the original author's permission.

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Practically Perfect Predecessors' Portfolios

As part of preparation for creating your own portfolios, I'd like to ask you to do the following. Please:

1. View the slides in the presentation embedded below, 
2. Follow the instructions on slides two and three, and 
3. Review the portfolios that you find through the links on slide four. 

Then please return to this post, and add a comment about which of your predecessors's portfolios you think is the best from each section (1A and 1C), and why you think so.

Thank you in advance for you cooperation.

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Five Writing Tips from Kasanoff (2013)

In the short slideshow below, Kasanoff focuses on five tips for improving writing (2013, June 4 [Slideshare]). He introduces and explains the tips in a separate post (2013, June 4 [LinkedIn]) in which he embedded the slideshow.

Five writing tips that can double your salary 

from Bruce Kasanoff

What other tips can you think of? Please feel free to share them in comments on this post.

References

Kasanoff, Bruce. (2013, June 4). Five writing tips that can double your salary [LinkedIn post]. Retrieved from http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130604130447-36792-five-writing-tips-that-can-double-your-salary

Kasanoff, Bruce. (2013, June 4). Five writing tips that can double your salary [Slideshare presentation]. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/NowPosible/five-writing-tips-that-can-double-your-salary

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Preparation for Audioboo recordings

listen to ‘Prep. for Audioboo recordings’ on Audioboo

The Audioboo recording above introduces the current, three-step homework assignment. Please listen to the recording carefully and completely. It is less than two minutes long.

Next, please open and read "more details" on the Writing Studio Calendar event for October 9. You also can find details in your invitation to that calendar event, and in a Gmail reminder to follow a couple of days before the assignment is due.

Screenshot of Writing Studio Blog:
Calendar of Events page
(Agenda view)

If you have concerns or questions about this assignment, please spell them out in comments on this post a day or two before the assignment is due, and make sure to select the option to receive follow-up comments via Gmail. Then, if your classmates, peers, or I respond to your comments, you will get Gmail notification messages immediately.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

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Comment collection, 2012.05.09

This post displays a collection of recent comments from individual blog posts and pages, with brief explanations for everyone about:

• personal information,
• post titles
• labels on posts,
• comments on pages (new),
• follow-up comment subscriptions,
• Google Doc file sharing, and
• editing HTML code.

Comments	Notes
pab さんは書きました... Hi Ayumi, Would you please remove your student number and family name (except for the initial, H., perhaps) from this post? Thanks. 2012年5月3日8:09	In general, reveal no more personal information on your blogs than absolutely necessary.
pab さんは書きました... Hi Shiori, Would you please reserve the key string "Essay 1-02a" for your complete draft essay in a new post? A better title for this post might be "Brainstorm about University Life" (without quotation marks). Cheers, PB 2012年5月3日9:33	Titles of posts should accurately reflect the actual content on posts.
pab さんは書きました... PS: The last three labels that you applied to this post need commas and spaces between them: "..., KGU[,] [u]niversity, student[s]" (without quotation marks or square brackets). 2012年5月3日9:37	Labels, like titles, should accurately reflect the content of posts. They need to be separated by commas, and should only be capitalized if proper nouns or acronyms. Use plural forms of nouns.
pab2012年5月9日 15:26 Hi Yurika, Thanks for sharing your PPFs today. Now would you please increase the height of the embedded spreadsheet to about 500 pixels? Cheers, PB	This comment is on a Proto-Portfolios page, rather than on a post. It is the first page that I've seen on which commenting is possible. However, when I tried to subscribe to get follow-up mail notification, I kept getting error messages, like this: "サーバーへの接続中にエラーが発生しました。" So please tell me in class if you post replies in follow-up comments on Proto-Portfolios pages.
pab2012年5月9日 15:42 Hi Mari, Just sharing your Proto-Portfolios spreadsheet, and embedding it in this page is not enough. You need to make data entries for all previous months right away, and then add entries by the first of each month from now on.	Same story here: This is another comment on a Proto-Portfolios page. Though comments on pages represent new functionality, follow-up subscriptions still don't work. So please tell me in class if you post replies in follow-up comments on Proto-Portfolios pages. Complete Proto-Portfolio entries for each month are due by the first of the next month.
pab2012年5月9日 16:09 Hi Ayumi, Though you have successfully published your Proto-Portfolios in this page, you haven't made entries for Feb., Mar., and Apr., which were due May 1. You also haven't shared the Google Spreadsheet with me so i can mark it. Please do so right away. Cheers, PB	In order to get credit for Proto-Portfolios, you must share them with me from Google Docs, using my gmail address, and grant me editing privileges.
pab2012年5月9日 16:12 PS: you also should increase the height of the spreadsheet embedded here from 300 pixels (default) to about 500 pixels. In order to do that, you need to open this page for editing in HTML mode. PB	Students who missed the session on embedding Proto-Portfolio workbooks in blog pages need to make sure that they edit the iframe code on their pages in HTML editing mode, changing "...height='300'..." to "...height='500'..." (numbers enclosed in single quotation marks).

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