Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2020/Terror management theory

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-- Jtneill - Talk - c 05:37, 13 September 2020 (UTC)

APA referencing, abbreviations and quotes.
Hello your chapter is looking good! Just a few things I picked up on:

1. Firstly just remember its APA 7th edition, meaning that when you have three or more authors you need to use "et al.,".

2. Just be careful as throughout the webpage you change from using TMT to terror mgt theory. Try to keep this consistent where possible. Also be careful as you capitalise the word terror throughout the webpage where not needed.

3. For quotes remember you need to have both the author and the page number and use double quotations marks for direct quotes.

Cant wait to see the end result, its looking great, keep it up!

--U3190210 (discuss • contribs) 01:48, 7 October 2020 (UTC)

Capitalisation
Note that this chapter is currently over-capitalised (e.g., it should be "anxiety buffering system" rather than "Anxiety Buffering System"). More info: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/capitalization, https://polishedpaper.com/blog/capitalization-apa-style Sincerely, James -- Jtneill - Talk - c 10:56, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Referencing and figure formatting ideas
Hi User:Oscar3176498, As another user previously noted APA 7 uses et al. for in-text citations of three or more authors. This includes when using them in sentence form. For example, your in-text citation in the "Applying terror management theory to performance: Can reminding individuals of their mortality Increase strength output?" overview paragraph should read as "The 2005 study by Peters et. al purpose was to..." Same again for the "Terror management theory health model : COVID-19" overview. This could read as "Pyszczynski et al. (2020) discussed the role of TMT..."

Finally, I think adding a caption to the figures would be a good addition. Eg. Figure 1. Memento mori serving as a reminder of death. Each figure should also be referred to within text.

Hope this helps :) Some very interesting content in your chapter.

--U3186080 (discuss • contribs) 12:23, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

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