APA?

5. What is the general format of the APA paper?

4. What types of papers are written in APA

1. What is APA?

2. Why is APA such a big deal?

3. Which type of style of language is appropriate when using the APA format?

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Standard for Formatting Academic Work in Social Sciences

Tables & Graphs

Writing Mechanics Clear & Concise

Writing References

Source Credits

Oral Presentations

Essays/Reflections/Critiques

1. What is APA?

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Psychological Knowledge

Communication ApplicationCreation

Overall Purpose

Achieve Consistency and Uniformity

2. Why is APA such a big deal?

A Dictionary

Theft

Language in an APA Paper is to embrace:

Specificity

Clarity

Passive voice

Active voice

Language in an APA Paper is to embrace:

Third person

First person

References

Body

Abstract

Title page

Title page

Abstract

Body

Body

Reference page

6. Where are the APA sources I can go to?

http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

http://www.apastyle.org/learn/tutorials/basics-tutorial.aspx

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/

the basics

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in-text citations