An engineering approach to teaching apa style in the cis curriculum
Ed Lindoo, Christopher Garcia · Journal of computing sciences in colleges · 2017
The ability to properly research, write professionally, and correctly cite sources is a must for any business major, including Computer Science (CS) majors. Throughout CS programs, emphasis is often placed on learning new languages, specifically code syntax, with little emphasis on researching and writing papers. The authors have seen an abundance of students in, or coming out of CS programs whose citation skills are substandard when compared to their business peers at the same level. In fact, recent data obtained from our capstone course which uses a contextualized case study found that on average, students received a score of 62.22 (standard deviation of 1.36) in proper APA formatting and citation. As a result, the authors believe that students within CS programs are not paying enough attention to APA as they should be. Therefore, this paper provides an engineering approach to teaching and learning APA style geared towards the CS professors and students.