you should reply to classmates in any two of the other three threads – this is required, and responses posted to the same discussion you submitted your main post to will not be counted for peer credit. Responses to your classmates are due by Sunday Hey Rochae, I really enjoyed reading your discussion post. I too got a 45 on the listening inventory quiz. I was also very shocked, because I have been working on my listening skills, as they used to be even worse. I used to cut people off while they were talking, or not even listen to them at all. However, I know longer cut people off and I show people I am listening by showing eye contact and giving them all my focus. Listening is important because it is critical for effective communication (de Janasz et al., 2019). The act of listening demands attention, concentration, and effort. This can be done through passive, attentive, and active or empathetic listening. Passive listening is taking in information with no attempt to process that information. Attentative listening occurs when you are interested in the speakers message, but fil in the gaps with your own assumptions based on what you want to hear. Empathetic listening is the most powerful in which it is a vibrant two-way process that involves high levels of attentativeness (de Janasz et al., 2019). Like you, I realize that I am a more attentive listerner and when people are talking to me I tend to add things in that I want to hear, rather than listening to what else they were going to say. Therefore, I understand why I got a 45 on the listening inventory quiz and definetly have work to do in order to become a more empathetic listerner. I can do this by giving the speaker my full attention, concentration, and effort rather than just hearing them and not proccessing anything they say. Rebecca Per My score for the Listening Inventory Quiz was a 43. So, in other words I am an okay listener, but there is room for improvement. I agree with this score since I know that I can be an impatient listener at times. Since listening is the process of hearing someone speak and processing what you are hearing, to then demonstrate what you understood from the person’s conversation (De Janasz, Dowd & Schneider, 2018). Empathic listening was suggested to help improve my listening skills and take them to the next level. So basically, I need to learn to recognize a person’s emotions and perspectives when listening to them as well as asking open questions to help the person describe what they are trying to say to the clearest level of understanding. Potential strategies that can be used for this to help improve my future listening skills could be to try to out myself in that person’s shoes, aka looking from their point pf view, try not to fear silence when I am listening to someone speak but instead welcome the silence as a way to allow the person time to gather their thoughts and words to finish their point with a strong ending, and just pay attention to their body langauage. I know that I could always use improvement in listening since I am not one to like to hear when people are talking to talk, or talking to complain about everything, which has hendered my listening skills throughout the past years. I am a person that tends not to speak out to everyone in order for someone to listen to me and in a sense, have basically shut down my listening skills to the maximum effort that they could be at. Explanation & Answer: 2 Discussions 250 Words Each Tags: listening skills effective listener emotional integrity empathetic listener empathetic listening skills 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.
