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Dual Credit Tool Kit: Using APA Formatting

Dual Credit Tool Kit: APA The APA (American Psychological Association) sets

style guidelines for students writing essays

The guidelines include standard formats for an essay including:

Style (font, paper size, layout etc)

In-text citations (how your cite your sources in an essay)

Reference list (just like a bibliography)

Dual Credit Tool Kit: APAStyle facts:

✔ Use Times New Roman, 12 pt font

✔ Use 1” margins

✔ Always double-space your work

✔ Use a header (title) in the upper left-hand corner of every page

✔ Number every page in the top right-hand corner of every page

Why do we have to know this? Avoid plagiarism Give credit to the author(s) Follow style guide

Dual Credit Tool Kit: APAFour main sections of an APA paper:

Title page AbstractMain bodyReferences

Title page example:

INVESTIGATING PATIENT CARE 1

Investigating Patient Care

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Dual Credit Tool Kit: APAAbstract:

This section is a summary of your findings in your paper

Include your running header from previous pages

Abstract example:

The study is to show how even a “sport” video game can incorporate many types of learning, to call attention to what might be overlooked as significant forms of learning, and to understand and take advantage of the opportunities video games afford as more deliberate learning environments. The aspects explored are the skills and techniques required to be successful in the game, the environment that skaters skate in, the personal vs. group identity that is shown through the general appearance of the skater, and the values and icons that the game teaches players. We are finding that sport video games support learning; we hope to find how one learns about oneself as a learner from playing.

Dual Credit Tool Kit: APAMain body:

• Double space

• Use in-text citations

• Use clear, concise and active language

• “We asked participants” instead of “Participants have been asked”

Main body example:THE FIRST TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY

Once the technology behind the telephone improved enough for widespread use, there were

many carriers to choose from in Canada. In 1905, there were 83 independent telephone

companies operating in Canada. The issue was service between Bell and the independents.

Indeed entry by independents gave rise to a flurry of anticompetitive activity on the

part of Bell, carefully designed to stall and, if possible, reverse growth of the

insurgents. In the case of multiparty rural lines, for example, Bell often granted

urban interconnections but only on condition that Bell be afforded control over all

further connections; sometimes Bell interconnected with one company to eliminate

connections for others, a ploy to put the latter out of business. (Babe, 1988) 

To solve this issue, the government brought all telephone companies under the control of the

Board of Railway Commissioners in 1906, giving it power to set prices and contracts.

Dramatic growth followed, but Bell Canada reigned over the hundreds of independents.

Dual Credit Tool Kit: APAIn-text citations:

Used throughout the essay

Variety of ways to incorporate these – see your handout for options

In-text citation example:

 Many others agree with the assessment that “this is a seriously flawed study” (Methasa, 1994, p. 22) and do not include its data in their work.

The in-text citation is the information in the brackets above

Dual Credit Tool Kit: APAReferences: At the end of the paperOn its own pageAlphabetized by author’s

last nameDouble spacedHanging indentation

Highlight text Go to Format Go to Paragraph Choose Indentation Choose Special - hanging

Reference page example:

References

Bouck, E. C. (2005). Service Delivery and Instructional

Programming in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Secondary

Special Education: An Exploratory Study. Rural Special

Education Quarterly, 24(4), 18-25.

 

Carmeli, E. (2008). Physical Training and Well-being in Older

Adults with Mild Intellectual Disability: A Residential Care

Study. Journal Of Applied Research In Intellectual

Disabilities, 21(5), 457-465.

 

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Dual Credit Toolkit: APAPlagiarism! And more importantly…how to avoid it

Check out this video:

The Punishable Perils of Plagiarism

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Dual Credit Tool Kit: APA

Georgian College Library Commons

Apps that help!

EasyBib – scan the barcode or type in the name of your book to create a perfect citation

iCite – select your chosen media and properly create a citation

Quickcite – take a photo of your book’s barcode and email the citation

Dual Credit Tool Kit: APA

Additional Resources:

apastyle.org

Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M., Soderlund, L., & Brizee, A. (July 2013). General format. Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/