APA style -- a productive approach

APA style does all these except …

• Helping you find the best resources when doing research.

• Making your work visually and organizationally consistent.

• Requiring you to credit where you got your information, avoiding plagiarism.

• Making it easy for readers to find your sources, via citations and references.

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CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which is not a great resource for APA style?

• The Student Success Center, with one-on-one, face-to-face appointments.

• Smarthinking, where you upload your essay for feedback.

• The library’s LibGuide for this course.

• The university Help Desk, available by phone, chat, email, and online.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In the body of the essay, APA style calls for all these except …

• Indented paragraphs.

• Red type for emphasis.

• Times New Roman or a similar font.

• type that's 10 to 12 point.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In the body of the essay, APA style calls for all these except …

• Type that is ragged right, or uneven on the right side.

• Double-spaced type.

• Specific margins on the top, bottom, and both sides.

• The abstract at the end of the paper, after the references.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which is true? Entries in APA reference list are listed …

• In order of importance.

• Alphabetically by author surnames.

• In the order you used them in the paper.

• Alphabetically by title of source (site, journal, etc.).

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

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Which is false? In APA, citations …

• Are enclosed in parentheses, (like this).

• Often have just a surname and a year.

• Briefly indicate your sources of statistics, quotations, and other research.

• Have all the information that readers need to find the sources you used.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which of the following is acceptable for not having an APA citation following a key fact?

• It’s in the public domain.

• It’s from another paper you wrote earlier in this class.

• It’s common knowledge.

• It’s in the paper’s reference list.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In reference lists, APA style calls for doing only one of the following. Which one?

• Abbreviating the month for when you retrieved items.

• Capitalizing All Words (but Not the Really Short Words) Like This in Article Titles.

• Spelling out authors’ first names.

• Including the publisher of a book.

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CCSS.L.8.6

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CCSS.W.11-12.2D

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In the reference list, “n.d” means.

• The article has no publication date.

• The writer does has no degree from a college or university.

• New data is included since the article was first published.

• There is no DOI.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

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According to APA, which is the following is false?

• All items in the reference list must have a citation in the body of the paper.

• The running head is a shortened version of the title and appears on every page.

• The title page has just your name, the title of the paper and lots of white space.

• The citations start on a separate page of the paper.

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CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.9