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The font style and size that you should use in all APA papers
What is Times New Roman - 12 pt?
To give credit to the authors, we always include this with our paraphrased sentence.
What is a citation?
This goes AFTER the citation and not at the end of the sentence.
What is punctuation (or period)?
She said that these punctuation marks must be at the start and end of the directly quoted sentence.
What are quotation marks?
Using this type of source to support my argument makes for a more credible paper.
What is a scholarly source?
This is the heading that you should use on your references page.
What is References?
Paraphrased citations require these 2 pieces of information
What are the authors' last names and date of publication?
Only these types of nouns (or names) require capitalization
What are proper nouns or proper names?
She said that your directly quoted sentence should be copied and pasted directly from the text, or ________for_________
What is word for word?
I can avoid using a colloquialism like 'cop' in my paper by using this word instead.
What is police officer?
The preferred spacing for an APA paper
What is double spaced?
This is an example of WHAT TYPE of paraphrased citation: Gau and Brunson (2015) examined how procedural injustice eroded police legitimacy.
What is an in-text citation?
It goes in the header along with part of the title
What is the page number?
She said that a direct quote citation must include these 3 things in this order.
What are the authors' last names, date of publication, and page number
I avoid using this pronoun to speak for an entire population in my APA papers.
What is we or us?
These 2 pieces of information should be in your HEADER on the title page (and repeated on the header of every page in the paper).
What are the page number and part of the title?
When paraphrasing, I should not sound like the author, but keep the author's what?
What is point of view or meaning?
I use this tense when referring to an article that was published prior to the current date.
What is past tense?
She said that you can use this abbreviation for the date if you cannot find one anywhere in your source.
What is n.d.?
Avoid this in your papers by remaining objective
What is bias or subjectivity?
In correct order, these THREE pieces of information are centered on your title page.
What are the title, my name, and my institution?
I sometimes use paraphrases in this - a brief overview of an author's entire study
What is a summary?
There are no skipped lines between these in an APA paper
What are paragraphs?
She said this is what I use for the page number when I am directly quoting from a source that does not have page numbers (like a website)
What is the paragraph number?
In my conclusions, I should avoid this type of appeal because it is not an effective way to conclude an APA style paper.
What is emotional?