APA Style Exercises
I. Correct errors in the following reference list according to APA style:
Bibliography
Silva, Tony, Brice, Colleen, & Reichelt, Melinda. (Eds.). (1999). Annotated bibliography of scholarship in second language writing: 1993-1997. Stamford, CT: Ablex. (ISBN: 1-56750-453-1)
Silva, Tony, et al. (1993-). Selected bibliography of recent scholarship in second language writing. Journal of Second Language Writing. New York: Elsevier Science. (ISSN: 1060-3743)
Ferris, Dana, & Hedgcock, John. (1998). Teaching ESL composition. Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates.
Kirsch, Gesa, & Sullivan, Patricia A. (Eds.) (1992). Methods and methodology in composition research. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
A. J. Berlin. (1987). Rhetoric and reality: writing instruction in American colleges, 1900-1985. Southern Illinois University Press.
Connors, R. (1981). The rise and fall of the modes of discourse. College Composition and Communication, 32, p. 444-455.
Ding, W. et al. (1984). A college handbook of composition [Yingyu xiezuo shouce]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Ding, W. et al. (1994). Yingyu xiezuo shouce [A handbook of writing]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Gong, Q. et al. (1991). A collection of model College English Tests for English major students. Nankai University Press.
Liu, K. (2000). Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese aesthetic Marxists and their Western contemporaries. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
MaMurtry, J. (1978). The Structure of Marx’s World-View. NJ: Princeton University Press.
Matsuda, P. K. (1999). Composition studies and ESL writing: a disciplinary division of labor. College Composition and Communication 50, 4.
Ross, H.A. (1993). China learns English: language teaching and social change in the People’s Republic. NH: Yale University Press.
Santos, T. et al. (2000). On the future of second language writing: a colloquium. Journal of Second Language Writing, 9 (1), 1-20.
Xinhua News Agency. (2001, March 6). Nation drafts five-year blueprint. China Daily. Retrieved November 3rd, 2001, from http://search.chinadaily.com.cn/isearch/i_textinfo.exe?dbname=cndy_printedition&listid=2223&selectword=GOVERNMENT%20WORK%20REPORT.
Wang, J. C. F. (1999). Contemporary Chinese politics: An introduction. NJ: Prentice Hall.
2. Change the following reference list in MLA style into APA style.
Bibliography:
Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. Denver: MacMurray and Beck, 1999.
Palmer, William J. Dickens and New Historicism. New York: St. Martin's, 1997.
---. The Films of the Eighties: A Social History. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1993.
Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2000.
Peterson, Nancy J., ed. Toni Morrison: Critical and Theoretical Approaches. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.
Poniewozik, James. "TV Makes a Too-Close Call." Time 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71.
Trembacki, Paul. "Brees Hopes to Win Heisman for Team." Purdue Exponent 5 Dec. 2000: 20.
Allen, Emily. "Staging Identity: Frances Burney's Allegory of Genre." Eighteenth-Century Studies 31 (1998): 433-51.
Duvall, John N. "The (Super)Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's White Noise." Arizona Quarterly 50.3 (1994): 127-53.
Poland, Dave. "The Hot Button." Roughcut. 26 Oct. 1998. Turner Network Television. 28 Oct. 1998 <http://www.roughcut.com>.
Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 33 pars. 5 Dec. 2000 <http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no6/wheelis.htm>.
Kunka, Andrew. "Re: Modernist Literature." E-mail to the author. 15 Nov. 2000.
Karper, Erin. "Welcome!" Online posting. 23 Oct. 2000. Professional Writing Bulletin Board. 12 Nov. 2000 <http://linnell.english.purdue.edu/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000001.html>.