This is “based on a true story,” as they say. Something similar happened to me, and I wanted to see how you all would react… Imagine you are in a foreign country to cover the Olympics. It’s the night of the 100-meter final — the headline event of the Games. You are on a media shuttle on the way to the stadium, and you’re staring out the window at the cityscape. The shuttle pulls up to a stoplight and you notice a group of city workers in Olympics vests dragging some homeless people from underneath a bridge. Very quickly, a plow follows and destroys the small tent city where the homeless group lives. You can hardly believe what you’re seeing. You look around at the other reporters on the bus. No one seems to notice; they are all looking at their phones. The shuttle pulls forward and you see some of the city workers punching the homeless people. You crane your neck to look back, but that’s all you see. The bus lurches forward and you can see the lights of the stadium ahead. You’re only about a half-mile from your destination. You have a decision to make. You have been given one of the coolest assignments in the world: covering the Olympics 100-meter final. That’s what you’re paid to do on this evening, so maybe you should try to forget what you just saw and concentrate on the race. Then again, you were the only person who saw that abuse under the overpass. If you don’t report on it, the story may never get told. But you’d have to get off the bus and try to get a couple of iPhone photos and maybe try to interview some of the homeless people. That would risk missing the race. You try to call your editor for advice. She doesn’t answer. You try again. No answer. The bus is moving. Another minute or two and you’ll lose track of where the overpass was located. You realize that most of your readers simply won’t care about some homeless people in a foreign country. No one will ever know what you saw, or the choice you made. Still, though, something is telling you to get off the bus and go back. And those workers were wearing Olympics vests. Did someone important instruct them to do that? Please write up to 250 words explaining what you would do in that situation, and why. Remember! You must post and reply to one other student for the full 10 points! (my peers discussion post ) in order to reply to her believe that being in such a situation is difficult. It is like being between a rock and a hard place. You are there to report about what happens at the Olympics. When one is on the shuttle, one comes across the homeless being pulled from underneath the bridge and punched by men in the Olympics vest. Such an incident would alarm anybody. I would be propelled to get off of the shuttle, take a picture, and use the picture as means to write about what I saw. Part of the journalist’s job is to report on the wrongs of society and hold politicians and others responsible for their actions. If I were in the shoes of the reporter, I would have taken out my iPhone and taken pictures of the whole scenario. I believe that such acts of injustice need to be brought to light. I believe that it is possible for the reporter to report the incident one saw on the way to the Olympics, as well as what she witnessed at the Olympics. Simultaneously, a reporter can report on the news instructed by their editor and report about an injustice. With such leeway, the journalist can perform their job and hold penetrators of mistreatment of the homeless accountable for their actions. Explanation & Answer: 250 words Tags: communications Homeless injustice User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor code & terms of service.
Reference List: Basic Rules
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
This resource, revised according to the 7th edition APA Publication Manual, provides fundamental guidelines for constructing the reference pages of research papers. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (7th ed.).
Note: Because the information on this page pertains to virtually all citations, we’ve highlighted one important difference between APA 6 and APA 7 with an underlined note written in red.
Formatting a Reference List
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text.
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this page “References” in bold, centered at the top of the page (do NOT underline or use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your essay.
Basic Rules for Most Sources
- All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
- All authors’ names should be inverted (i.e., last names should be provided first).
- Authors’ first and middle names should be written as initials.
- For example, the reference entry for a source written by Jane Marie Smith would begin with “Smith, J. M.”
- If a middle name isn’t available, just initialize the author’s first name: “Smith, J.”
- Give the last name and first/middle initials for all authors of a particular work up to and including 20 authors (this is a new rule, as APA 6 only required the first six authors). Separate each author’s initials from the next author in the list with a comma. Use an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name. If there are 21 or more authors, use an ellipsis (but no ampersand) after the 19th author, and then add the final author’s name.
- Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.
- When referring to the titles of books, chapters, articles, reports, webpages, or other sources, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns.
- Note again that the titles of academic journals are subject to special rules. See section below.
- Italicize titles of longer works (e.g., books, edited collections, names of newspapers, and so on).
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as chapters in books or essays in edited collections.
Basic Rules for Articles in Academic Journals
- Present journal titles in full.
- Italicize journal titles.
- Maintain any nonstandard punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title.
- For example, you should use PhiloSOPHIA instead of Philosophia, or Past & Present instead of Past and Present.
- Capitalize all major words in the titles of journals. Note that this differs from the rule for titling other common sources (like books, reports, webpages, and so on) described above.
- This distinction is based on the type of source being cited. Academic journal titles have all major words capitalized, while other sources’ titles do not.
- Capitalize the first word of the titles and subtitles of journal articles, as well as the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and any proper nouns.
- Do not italicize or underline the article title.
- Do not enclose the article title in quotes.
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
- Deep blue: The mysteries of the Marianas Trench.
- …but you would write the journal title as follows:
- Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
Please note: While the APA manual provides examples of how to cite common types of sources, it does not cover all conceivable sources. If you must cite a source that APA does not address, the APA suggests finding an example that is similar to your source and using that format. For more information, see page 282 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
