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Sandra Collins, PhD, RPsych<\/h2>\r\n

Professor, Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology,\r\nFaculty of Health Disciplines,\r\nAthabasca University.<\/p>\r\nI have held various roles within the Master of Counselling program since its inception. I am currently taking a leadership role in curriculum revitalization for that program. My passion lies in the area of multicultural counselling and social justice. I see myself as an advocate, educator, writer, and enthusiast for learning about the diversity of the human experience.\r\n\r\nI suspect that some of you may greet this e-book with less enthusiasm than some of the other learning tasks associated with your graduate program. To be honest, I approached the task of writing the content from a similar place, when I first put it together as a course over a decade ago. However, I could immediately see how much I learned through that process and how much better my own writing is as a result. I hope you will experience a similar shift in perspective over time.\r\n\r\nI am not an English major, and I do not consider myself an expert in APA format. However, I do a lot of writing, and, over the years, I have had the opportunity to receive and benefit from feedback on my own writing skills. I have also graded many graduate student papers, and I have a sense of what students struggle with in their own writing. My motivation in writing this eBook was to provide a learning process for students to enhance their writing skills and mastery of APA editorial guidelines and to support instructors in their grading of student papers by providing a resource they can refer students to when writing issues emerge.\r\n\r\nI have drawn on my experience as an academic, graduate instructor, psychologist, and professional communicator in writing this course. I hope that it provides you with a resource to support your success both in your graduate program and your professional work. Please see my faculty profile<\/a> for more information about my academic work.","rendered":"

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Sandra Collins, PhD, RPsych<\/h2>\n

Professor, Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology,
\nFaculty of Health Disciplines,
\nAthabasca University.<\/p>\n

I have held various roles within the Master of Counselling program since its inception. I am currently taking a leadership role in curriculum revitalization for that program. My passion lies in the area of multicultural counselling and social justice. I see myself as an advocate, educator, writer, and enthusiast for learning about the diversity of the human experience.<\/p>\n

I suspect that some of you may greet this e-book with less enthusiasm than some of the other learning tasks associated with your graduate program. To be honest, I approached the task of writing the content from a similar place, when I first put it together as a course over a decade ago. However, I could immediately see how much I learned through that process and how much better my own writing is as a result. I hope you will experience a similar shift in perspective over time.<\/p>\n

I am not an English major, and I do not consider myself an expert in APA format. However, I do a lot of writing, and, over the years, I have had the opportunity to receive and benefit from feedback on my own writing skills. I have also graded many graduate student papers, and I have a sense of what students struggle with in their own writing. My motivation in writing this eBook was to provide a learning process for students to enhance their writing skills and mastery of APA editorial guidelines and to support instructors in their grading of student papers by providing a resource they can refer students to when writing issues emerge.<\/p>\n

I have drawn on my experience as an academic, graduate instructor, psychologist, and professional communicator in writing this course. I hope that it provides you with a resource to support your success both in your graduate program and your professional work. Please see my faculty profile<\/a> for more information about my academic work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"About the Author","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":"cc-by-nc-sa","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"back-matter-type":[23],"contributor":[],"license":[61],"class_list":["post-28","back-matter","type-back-matter","status-publish","hentry","back-matter-type-about-the-author","license-cc-by-nc-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/back-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/28\/revisions"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/28\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"back-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter-type?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/on-linelearning.ca\/professionalwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}