References

Principles of Learning Reflection and References

Reflection

One of the many things I learned in this course was that a Reference List only contains books and articles that were read for a specific purpose. Although we were given the choice of reading one of four books, only one will be on this list because that was the one chosen by my Book Inquiry Group. As a group, we also learned the proper way to cite references using the Seventh Edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, the current guide for citation used in Education. 

Dr. Ruttenberg-Rosen was very generous with her time during this course; many of us were deeply grateful for her after-class discussions on the difference between a scholarly article and one found in a predatory journal. Likewise, she showed us how to determine the difference between an academic textbook and the product from a non-academic publishing company. The quality of the research cited speaks to the quality of the papers I anticipate writing in the coming years. This might not be important at an undergraduate level but it is imperative for graduate-level work. In academia one is only as important as the work they get published in a reputable journal.

We learned that the Internet is a treasure trove of valuable information if one knows where to look.

• Beall's List of Potential Predatory Journals and Publishers (https://beallslist.net/) keeps track of journals that receives money from people who would like their work published but whose papers may not have the academic rigor required to get published, or who may want work published quickly and so avoid the delay of having their work approved by