Activity: Reflection on AMA Citation
After many years of working with a public health survey course we realized students come to the class with varying ranges of experience using reference citations for their writing. This semester we tried something new. After the fourth week of the course we asked students to pause and reflect on their AMA citations. The assignment was explained as follows.
For this first reflection we’d like you to take some time to reflect on your progress so far with AMA citations.
In a one or two paragraph reflection let us know the following:
- Where are you struggling with AMA citations?
- What resources and information have been helpful to you so far as it relates to AMA citations?
- What additional information or instructional materials would be helpful for you at this point in the course as it relates to AMA citations?
- What questions do you have?
- Any other thoughts or reflections you have on AMA citations are also welcome in your reflection.
Once all of the students turned in their reflections we consulted with the UVM Public Health librarian, Donna O’Malley and she wrote out responses to the questions. That was then turned into a FAQ document.
This document has now been integrated into the fourth module when they do their AMA reflection and it will now become required reading for students to complete prior to writing their reflection. We will be interested to see the next round of reflections and the nature of student questions.
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