Analysis on the Use of In-text Citations

The American Psychological Association (APA) style offers authors guidance on many features of academic writing. Some features included in the APA style manual are in-text citations, which are analyzed in detail in the article “Developing Voice by Composing Haiku: A Social-Expressivist Approach for Teaching Haiku Writing in EFL Contexts” (Iida, 2010, p. 28).

With respect to in-text citations, the article seems to have partially observed the APA rules. With regard to paraphrased in-text citations, the article has complied with the APA. “According to Matsuda (2001)” is an example, in which the author’s name is included in a signal phrase and only the year is placed in parentheses. However, with regard to direct quotes, the article seems to have deviated from the APA rules. “According to Gradin (1995, 110)” and “According to Ivanič (1998, 97)” show that the abbreviation of “page” p. is not included (Iida, 2010, pp. 29, 33).

The analysis seems to indicate that the article written by Iida (2010) “Developing Voice by Composing Haiku: A Social-Expressivist Approach for Teaching Haiku Writing in EFL Contexts” (p. 28) has partially observed the APA rules regarding in-text citations.

References

American Psychological Association. (2010).  Publication Manual of the American

          Psychological Association (6^th ed). Washington, DC: Author.

Iida, A. (2010). Developing voice by composing haiku: A social-expressive approach for teaching haiku writing in EFL contexts. English Teaching Forum (1): pp. 28-34.