How to Read this Dissertation
For those coming here for the first time, this video that I created for my comprehensive portfolio, may provide navigational tips to get you started. I will update and replace this video once this Scalar dissertation is complete.
While I make every effort to follow the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting guidelines, there are some evident discrepancies that I will explain here, rather than be called out for non-compliance in a scholarly work. Many of these variations on APA are made as a result of this digital delivery, constraints imposted by the affordances of the tools being used, and in consideration of the readability of the overall document.
First, there is a space inserted after each paragraph, which allows the eye to wander down a page and more easily locate a section or paragraph. This also allows for reference citations to designate the specific page, since each page has a distinct uniform resource locator (URL) and paragraph should this digital document become a source for other academic writing. Please note that the portable document format (PDF) adheres strictly to APA formatting, where any errors are acknowledged as human mistakes. The provenance of each page and object in this document is available by contacting the author.