Edits.
Things I have just learned while editing my dissertation:
-The American Psychological Association requests that "Although" and "Whereas" be used in place of "While."
- Numbers being compared to other numbers equal to or over 10 are expressed numerically.
-When a citation has six or more authors, reduce to the first author and use et al. even on the first citation of the work.
Those are the main insights I have gleaned thus far, although (or whereas?) I am only on page 9. Thumbing ahead, I see several comments made by my advisor, such as "Awkward" and "Can you rephrase?"
Le sigh.
Three weeks, four days to internship…
-l
Hang in there. I remember writing in the APA format whilst in college and it was a pain. And I had to write nothing close to your dissertation.
By the way, you could get mad props if you re-write this post and it’s only 256 characters or whatever the number is that they allow you for your abstract.
Comment by Tyler Watson — January 31, 2007 @ 10:04 pm
Oh, t-dogg…what I wouldn’t give for some mad props, but that assignment will have to wait until I write my real abstract. Have you ever gotten a spam that seemed like a strange amalgamation of Moby Dick with an Archie’s comic? I think there must be a program out there that makes that…. I am going to find this program, put my dissertation into it, and have it write me an abstract. Then I will be done.
Comment by vogt in space — February 2, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
Wouldn’t the Moby Dick and Archie’s combo be known as Cliff Notes?
Comment by Una — February 21, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
Una, so good to hear from you! I thought of you the other day and wished you well. Did it work?
Comment by vogt in space — February 22, 2007 @ 6:36 pm