Helen Kuttner Metro Writing Studio Spring 2017 Why do I need to learn APA style Academic writing requires strategies related to connecting with and persuading your audience keeping your language and facts accurate and objective ID: 618278
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Advanced APA Workshop
Helen Kuttner
Metro Writing Studio
Spring 2017Slide2
Why do I need to learn APA style?
•Academic writing requires strategies related to
connecting with and persuading your audience.
keeping your language and facts accurate and objective
researching and incorporating expert sources into your writing.
acknowledging these experts’ ideas.
showing your readers where they can find these expert sources
for themselves.
• avoiding plagiarism.
•A knowledge of an editorial format such as APA helps writers.Slide3
Is it APA style?
Students frequently overuse direct quotation in taking notes, and as a result they overuse quotations in the final [research] paper. Probably only about 10% of your final manuscript should appear as directly quoted matter. Therefore, you should strive to limit the amount of exact transcribing of source materials while taking notes.
Lester, J.D. (1976). Writing research papers. (2
nd
ed.). New York, NY: Pearson.
Students often take notes using exact words, which results in the overuse of quotes in the final paper. Maybe about 10 percent of the paper should use direct quotes
.
As a result, one should try not to copy source material directly when taking notes. (Writing research papers, 1976)Slide4
Paraphrase the following:
1. Lack of calcium can result in malformed teeth.
Misshapen teeth are caused by an insufficient intake of calcium.
Insufficient calcium can result in malformed teeth. One effect is misshapen teeth.
2. Three issues are especially crucial to understanding the possible uses of the human genome.
Understanding potential uses of the human genome is linked to three vital issues.
Three things are especially crucial to understanding the possible uses of the human genome.Slide5
Which synonym choices are better?It is not ethical
to cheat on tests.
okay 2. moral
Eyes
pained
by dust secrete a lot of tears.
3. hurt 4. irritated
There is a lot of
moisture
in the air.
5. wetness 6. humiditySlide6
APA uses a system of five heading levels
APA Headings
Level
Format
1
Centered,
Boldfaced, Upper & Lowercase Headings
2
Left-aligned, Boldface,
Upper & Lowercase Headings
3
Indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period.4 Indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with period.5 Indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period.
Headings
Adapted from Purdue University Online Writing Lab, 2016, APA Formatting and Style Guide [Chart]. Retrieved from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab website: https://
owl
.english.
purdue
.edu/
owl
/Slide7
Here is an example of the five-level heading system:
Headings
Adapted from Purdue University Online
Writing Lab (2016),
APA Formatting and Style Guide [Chart]. Retrieved from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab website: https://
owl
.english.
purdue
.edu/
owlSlide8
With APA headings,all sections of equal importance are given the same heading level.use only as many heading levels as needed.
give each subsection a heading if a section can be divided into two or more subsections.
do not assign a heading if you do not have at least two subsections.Slide9
Other Helpful Resources
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
Social Media Citation Guide
http://teachbytes.com/2013/04/09/how-to-cite-social-media-mla-apa-formats
Harvard Graduate School of Education, APA Exposed
Isites.harvard.edu/
icb
/
icb.do?keyword
=apa_exposedAmerican Psychological Association Style Manual, 6th Editionwww.apastyle.org