The American psychological Association (APA, 2010), is
one of the manuals which contains pre-established rules for academic writing style as well as
citations and reference lists. Members of the discourse community who decide to
produce academic papers should follow those rules (Purdue
OWL, 2013). The purpose of this work is to analyse if the Review of Deconstructing DigitalNatives Mark (2012)follows some pre- established conventions of the (APA,
2010) style, such as citations, signal phrases and reference list.
Mark (2012)
includes in his review some paraphrased in- text citations identified by a
signal phrase, the authors’ surname and between brackets the date of the book,
due to the fact that the author is mentioned in the structure of the sentence.
In the review there are also direct quotations, which are mainly used in order
to present certain phrases or words used in the book which is being reviewed.
Those quotes are generally presented by a signal phrase, the authors’ surname
and the page number, but in some cases there is no date between brackets which
should be written (APA, 2010).
As regards signal phrases, in the review it could be
found different ones such as “explains, identifies, a notable example, asserts,
suggest, explains, recommends”, among others. According to the APA style (2010)
signal phrases are used in order to lead quotations or citations, in that
sense, the readers would know when it used a material written by others
authors.
Considering APA style (2010) rules the reference list
should be at the end of the body of the text in a new page. In addition, the
title “references” should be centered, alienated and not in bold, (Purdue Owl,
2013). In the review the reference page is not separated from the body of the
text, moreover the title reference is not centered and in bold. The reference list follows the alphabetical
order proposed by APA (2010), although it does not have double space neither
hanging indent as it is required (Purdue Owl, 2013). The signal phrase retrieved in digital
documents is used by the author.
It could be concluded that the review written by Mark (2012) generally follows the APA style (2010).
Although there are some inconsistencies as regards APA style (2010) style and
conventions. It can be noticed in direct quotations and in the format of the
reference list.
References
American
Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the
American Psychological Association(6th ed.). Washington, DC
Mark, N. (2012). Review of
Deconstructing Digital Natives. [Review of the book Deconstructing Digital
Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies]. Retrieved October 2013, http://llt.msu.edu/issues/october2012/review1.pdf
Purdue OWL (2013). APA style
workshop Retrieved October 2013,
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/664/01/
Deconstructing Digital Natives. Annotated bibliography.
Mark, N. (2012). Review of
Deconstructing Digital Natives. [Review of the book Deconstructing Digital
Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies]. Retrieved October 2013, http://llt.msu.edu/issues/october2012/review1.pdf
Mark (2012) offers a thorough review of the
book Deconstructing Digital Natives. He
analyses the weak and strong points of this book. The review takes a critical
view where Mark (2012) analyses deeply the necessity of having images and
figures in order to understand better some concepts presented. Mark analyses
some concepts presented by the authors of the book. He uses direct quotations in order to be precise
with the concepts. The review clarifies some topics and apart from that it is
explained each section of the book, which are three and twelve chapters. The
readers who enjoy books related to technology could read this simple review in
order to understand a complex book which has many chapters. Mark summarizes all the chapters and gives a
quite useful critique.
References
Mark, N. (2012). Review of
Deconstructing Digital Natives. [Review of the book Deconstructing Digital
Natives: Young People, Technology and the New Literacies]. Retrieved October 2013,
http://llt.msu.edu/issues/october2012/review1.pdf
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