Hi everyone,
I just finished going over your citations and annotations for the articles. In just a few moments, you will be able to find them at the reference desk. There is a lot you will want to revise. Some of the major problems that occurred over and over were:
1. Articles found online must include this information in the citation! Please see pages 7-8 of the electronic APA guide, which you can find at: http://libproxy.albany.edu/limited/default/apa/apa_style_reference.pdf It is easiest if there is a doi, but if there isn't, you need a "retrieved" statement such as they show.
2. I noticed that a fair number of the annotations are simply descriptive, not critical or evaluative. Please review the 7 criteria on the sheet on writing annotations if yours are not correct.
3. Just a heads up: for next week's website citations, do not just use a url alone as your citation. The electronic APA guide I mention above isn't too good with providing an example of a simple, plain website citation. There are many examples of specialized types of information found on websites. I would say that the example given in item #14 (on page 13) is fairly generic. They point out that is the content of the website is unlikely to change, you don't need to include the date that you viewed the site as part of your retrieval statement. Think carefully about whether the sites you have chosen are likely to be static or not over time. \
4. Another heads up: a date is never the first element in the citation. You usually have a personal or organizational author first. If you can't identify one of those, the title of the item (jn this case, the website) would be first. Date is always second.
If you have any questions about the material you are picking up, or what you are working on for next week, feel free to contact me.