APA and MLA Style Citations: Brief Guidelines

Prepared by: University of California Berkeley Library


Click HERE to download the APA guide.


Click HERE to download the MLA guide. 

A Survey...

The Weblog is now fourteen-month old! I like to thank all friends and colleagues whose fruitful suggestions and comments benefited me during this period. In the upper-right side of the page, a survey is intended to be carried out. Since the year is coming to an end, I'd like to know which sections are most visited and probably favored by the visitors so that those sections could be hopefully improved and enriched in the future. 

Thank You! 

Directory of Open Access Journals

The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact.
The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content. In short a one stop shop for users to Open Access Journals.


Click HERE to find journals.
Click HERE to search for articles. 

How to Use ERIC?

This simple guide will assist you in searching in the ERIC database. 
Click HERE to download the PowerPoint slides. 

The Basics of APA Style

This presentation assists you in preparing you academic essays based on the APA style sheet.  
Click HERE to download the PowerPoint slides.  

Magic of English!

Professor Ernest Brennecke of Columbia is credited with inventing a
sentence that can be made to have eight different meanings by placing
ONE WORD in all possible positions in the sentence: "I hit him in the
eye yesterday."
 
The Query: What is this word?
 
The Answer: The word is "ONLY".

The Message:

1.       ONLY I hit him in the eye yesterday. (No one else did.)
2.       I ONLY hit him in the eye yesterday. (Did not slap him.)
3.       I hit ONLY him in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit others.)
4.       I hit him ONLY in the eye yesterday. (I did not hit outside the eye.)
5.       I hit him in ONLY the eye yesterday. (Not other organs.)
6.       I hit him in the ONLY eye yesterday. (He doesn't have another eye.)
7.       I hit him in the eye ONLY yesterday. (Not today.)
8.       I hit him in the eye yesterday ONLY. (Did not wait for today.)

Sample Literature Reviews

Tran, T. H. (2009). The interaction hypothesis: A literature review.  (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED507194) 
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Selami, A. (2009). Test anxiety among foreign language learners: A review of literature. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 5(1). 127-137. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED511092)
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Kim, M. (2002).  The use of the computer in developing L2 reading comprehension: Literature review and its implications. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED472671)
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Teaching Language Skills (Handouts)

The MA students can download the handouts of Richards & Renandya from HERE. The file is password-protected. Please send an e-mail to (atahriri@gmail.com) to receive the password.

Click HERE to see how you can download files from 4shared.

Seminar (Course Plan)

The MA students can download the course plan from HERE or HERE. The file is password-protected. Please send an e-mail to (atahriri@gmail.com) to receive the password.

Click HERE to see how you can download files from 4shared.
Click HERE to see how you can download files from FileFactory.

WriteCheck

WriteCheck (powered by Turnitin) was developed by the creators of Turnitin, the world's #1 most popular, most effective and most trusted solution for originality checking and plagiarism prevention. WriteCheck was developed at the urging of high school and college writing teachers and instructors from every discipline. They saw a large, unmet need for students to learn to check their own work for proper citations. WriteCheck can be seen as the essential "third check" for any paper - first: spelling check; second: grammar check; and, third: originality check.