By Nina Bianca Cadena As the summer class started last April 21st, I thought that the class will be so boring because of the 3 hour class per subject. And the fact that it is just a short term class, like it was just a month; I couldn’t imagine how they will make it more advance for us to finish the designated topics and deadlines. And as expected for this another kind of English subject, which is the English 101 I prepared myself already for possible long essays and paper works, it is because we were told by the head of English department that in this stage of English 101 class, more on essays and words are about to happen, which we are experiencing right now. In addition to our syllabus, more of the oral and reporting which is usual in the class will take place. The lessons I learned from my English summer class are not that quite easy to analyze but with the help of our professor, it is more easy to understand because he taught very clearly. The APA style syllabus which is about the avoidance of plagiarism help me to know its limitations and rules that I should follow for us to know the limit of exceeding in the line. Actually, there are many different ways to credit the author that you get your sources from, whether it is a book, magazine, newspaper or online research.
Back in high school, whenever we are gathering information from different resources, we were always task to do the bibliography properly. Now in college, there were similarity in acknowledging the authors and the creditors, the difference is that when we are studying the APA styles, it shows how broad the topic is and how important to follow all the formats that were given in the syllabus. And it is not only we are studying the format in gathering from the book, but there were different given circumstances and example which is very helpful for me.
Before, in other subjects when we are task to do some home works and there should be acknowledgements we just copies the