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APA Writing Style
Nadeena Spice
Ivy Tech Community College
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Professionalism
A higher level of writing skills are
required of college students
To articulate thoughts in an organizedmanner
To enhance communication skills
To portray professionalism
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Plagiarism
Definition:
Stealing words or ideas from someone
else and portraying them as your ownwithout giving credit to the original
source (Encarta World English Dictionary, 2009).
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism can be avoided by citing the
source(s) from which thoughts, ideas,
or quotes have been borrowed.
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Citing Sources
Identification of material in yourwork that came from another source
Provides readers with information for
locating that source, such as:
Information about the author
The title of the work
The name and location of the works publisher
The date of publication The page number(s) of the material borrowed or quoted
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APA Writing Style
Required by the School of Nursingfor written papers
Additional APA Resources: http://www.apastyle.org/electext.html
http://www.apastyle.orgelecmedia.html
http://www.apastyle.org/stylehelper
http://www.referencepointsoftware.com
http://owl.english.purdue.edu
Publication manual of the American PsychologicalAssociation (6th
ed.). (2010). Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association
http://www.apastyle.org/electext.htmlhttp://www.apastyle.orgelecmedia.html/http://www.apastyle.org/stylehelperhttp://www.referencepointsoftware.com/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/http://www.referencepointsoftware.com/http://www.apastyle.org/stylehelperhttp://www.apastyle.orgelecmedia.html/http://www.apastyle.org/electext.html -
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Overview
8 x 11 paper size
Double-spaced
12-point font size and type comparable to TimesNew Roman
Pages sequentially numbered in upper right handmargin following page header, beginning with the
Title Page Written in third person
Use one space after punctuation marks(AmericanPsychological Association, 2010).
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Title Page
Horizontally and vertically centered
Title of Paper
Name of author
Name of school Date written
Page Header: First 2 or 3 words of the title of the paper
positioned 5 spaces to the left of the page number
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Composition
Paragraph construction Minimum of three sentences
Covers a single topic, thought, or idea
Indent each new paragraph five spaces
New paragraphs at the bottom of a page need at leasttwo lines, otherwise begin the paragraph on the following
page
Written assignments usually begin with an introductoryparagraph and end with a conclusion paragraph after the
logical progression of discussion on the identified topic.
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Mechanics
Use abbreviations sparingly They should be spelled out the first
time they are used and then identify theabbreviation in parentheses:
Cerebral vascular accident (CVA)
Quotations are used for exact words from anotherperson or written source Use an in-text citation after the quote if less than four
typed lines
Use block quotations for those longer than four lines; alllines indented five spaces from the left margin, double-spaced, and without quotation marks (AmericanPsychological Association, 2010)
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Citations
Use author-date method One author:
.. (Smith, 2009).
Two authors:
..(Jones & Brown, 2008).
Three, four, or five authors: The first time the reference is used:
(Berning, Marks, Fischer & Felding, 2005).
Subsequent citations for the same authors:
.(Berning et al, 2005)
Six or more authors: Use the last name of the first author followed by et al and the
date (American Psychological Association, 2010)
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Reference Page
Center the word Referenceson the first
line one-inch from the top of the page
All references are double-spaced
The first line of each reference begins at the one-inch leftmargin; additional lines should have a hanging indent (5
spaces from the left margin)
List references in alphabetical order by the authors last
name All sources cited in the body of the paper should be listed
on the reference page
All works listed on the reference page should be cited in
the body of the paper (American PsychologicalAssociation, 2010)
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Examples Book
Burns, J. (1978). Leadership.New York, NY: Harper and Row
Journal Barbuto, J. (2005). Motivation and transactional, charismatic, and transformational leadership: a test of antecedents.
Journal
of Leadership and Organizational Studies,11(4), 26-40.
Newspaper Hurricane Edwardo to hit coast of Florida this week after much destruction in Cuba. (2004, September 8). The
Indianapolis Star, p.
A12.
Journal article taken from a website ERIC. (1992). Transformational leadership. ERIC Digest, Number 72. Retrieved from
http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed347636.html
Journal article taken from an electronic database Han, Thuzar. (2006). Effectiveness of standard short-course chemotherapy for treating
tuberculosis and the impact of drug resistance on its outcome. International Journal of
Evidence-Based Health, 4, 101-117. Retrieved from CINAHL database.
Internet document Kline, B. & Stewart, T. (n.d.). Interacting with children of cancer patients. Retrieved July 7, 2005 from
http://stiv.gov/articles/cancerpatients/387645_edu.focus.htm
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