Originally posted by: SludgeFactory
It looks like the APA wants you to indent long quotes and set them off from the body of the text, like I remember from other guides, *no quotation marks*. For a conventional 40+ word block quote, look under
Long Quotations.
I think if you had indented it (did you?) and given the page number (pp) at the end in addition to your lead-in sentence, you would be technically OK, at least more correct than her quotation marks. Go find a copy of the APA guide. But even then, bulleted lists are frowned upon in formal writing and from what I can tell the APA discourages them, so it may be difficult to find examples of how you're supposed to quote poor style like that. I wonder if the
original authors formatted it like that, sometimes it pays to dig up the source rather than get it secondhand from a 3 page survey article in a school counseling journal.
The main thing is to establish that there is some confusion in this case about how to correctly cite this (use a little tact if the teacher is present at the meeting) by pointing to the style guide if necessary, then concede that *you* made a stylistic mistake and fully accept whatever points are deducted for such mistakes, but that plagarism was clearly not your intent.
Originally posted by: nick1985
im deffinately considering my "options"...
like what, egging all the cars in the psych faculty parking lot?