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College Comp Modular need help with Citing Sources. - davemodular - 06-25-2015
HI
I'm scheduled to take the College Comp Modular with No essay on July 5. I dont need the essay for my school and this is confirmed.
My question is : So far Ive gone through all 288 questions for the Instantcert for College Comp and by far the hardest part for me is the APA/MLA etc citing sources portions. For the life of me I cannot retain the specific formats for these and I know that these should be easy because its a format that each follows. Does anyone have a study guide that simplifies the learning of these, that goes beyond what Instancert does?
Also any additional help for this test would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Dave
College Comp Modular need help with Citing Sources. - gingerbeefE - 06-26-2015
Every time I write a paper I reference the Owl prelude site, very good as giving basic outlines, with that said, I don't remember many questions on this section when I took the test (over a year ago)
It shouldn't get as tricky as the TECEPs-102 citation because it is all multiple choice, odd's are it might have a basic question like which of the following is in the correct format. (2 of which will probably start with a first name instead of a last so they are obviously wrong)
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/05/
College Comp Modular need help with Citing Sources. - cookderosa - 06-27-2015
davemodular Wrote:HI
I'm scheduled to take the College Comp Modular with No essay on July 5. I dont need the essay for my school and this is confirmed.
My question is : So far Ive gone through all 288 questions for the Instantcert for College Comp and by far the hardest part for me is the APA/MLA etc citing sources portions. For the life of me I cannot retain the specific formats for these and I know that these should be easy because its a format that each follows. Does anyone have a study guide that simplifies the learning of these, that goes beyond what Instancert does?
Also any additional help for this test would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Dave
Dave,
I'll second Gingerbeef's suggestion- OWL is the way to go.
If it makes you feel better, 100% of grad school writing is APA/MLA and even after using it for a number of years, I still look things up. You may find it helpful to use the help tools in your word processing software. Word has a feature that lets you input data for each source and then auto-generates citations as well as auto-creates a reference/bibliography page. It's a very helpful tool.