Direct Quotation
True or false?
Experts have pointed to a range of important potential contributors to the rise in childhood obesity that are unrelated to the media. - Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, "The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity" (2004), p. 1
The following is an acceptable paraphrase of the passage:
According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (2004), experts have indicated a wide range of significant potential contributors to childhood obesity that are not linked to media (p.1).
What is false? The language is too close to the original.
Original: Experts have pointed to a range of important potential contributors to the rise in childhood obesity that are unrelated to the media. - Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, "The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity" (2004), p. 1
Faulty paraphrase: According to the Kaiser Family Foundation (2004), experts have indicated a range of significant potential contributors to childhood obesity that are not linked to media (p.1).
True or False: A running head is required on all APA papers.
What is false?
The page called a "Works Cited" page in MLA format is called what in APA format?
What is a "References" page?
True or False?
Experts have pointed to a range of important potential contributors to the rise in childhood obesity that are unrelated to the media. - Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, "The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity" (2004), p. 1
The following is an acceptable paraphrase of the passage:
A report by the Kaiser Family Foundation (2004) suggested that various sources other than the media contribute to childhood obesity (p.1).
What is true?
Original: Experts have pointed to a range of important potential contributors to the rise in childhood obesity that are unrelated to the media. - Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, "The Role of Media in Childhood Obesity" (2004), p. 1
Acceptable paraphrase of the passage: A report by the Kaiser Family Foundation (2004) suggested that sources other than the media contribute to childhood obesity (p.1).
Two characteristics of the font required for an APA paper.
What are Times New Roman and 12-point?
Identify the error (other than hanging indent):
Swarns, Robert. (2017, April 9). A family, for a few days a year. The New York Times. https:// www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/a-family
What is the author's name? (only the author's first initial should be used.)
What is the difference between information in the header of an MLA and an APA paper
What is:
MLA: Author's last name and page number
APA: Running head (abbreviated title in capital letters) and page number
Which are correctly formatted summaries: A, B, or both?
A. Yanovski and Yanovski (2002) explained that sibutramine suppresses appetite by blocking the reuptake of two neurotransmitters in the brain (p. 594).
B. Subutramine suppresses appetite by blocking the reuptake of two neurotransmitters in the brain (Yanovski & Yanovski, 2002, p. 594).
Both:
A. Yanovski and Yanovski (2002) explained that sibutramine suppresses appetite by blocking the reuptake of two neurotransmitters in the brain (p. 594).
B. Subutramine suppresses appetite by blocking the reuptake of two neurotransmitters in the brain (Yanovski & Yanovski, 2002, p. 594).
Bolded, with all important words capitalized. (2 things)
What are the title and headings?
Identify the error:
Swarns, R.L. (2017, April 9). "A family, for a few days a year." The New York Times. https:// www.nytimes.com/2017/04/09/a-family
The quotation marks.
How many times does the title of the essay appear in the paper, and where?
What is two? On the title page, and at the top of page 2.
What is missing from the following summary?
According to one study, sibutramine suppresses appetite by blocking the reuptake of two neurotransmitters in the brain (2002, p. 594).
What are the authors' names?
According to one study, sibutramine suppresses appetite by blocking the reuptake of two neurotransmitters in the brain (Yanovski & Yanovski, 2002, p. 594).
Upper right hand corner of every page.
What is where your page numbers should appear?
What is missing from this citation?
Cojanu, V. (2013). Economics, Darwinism, and the case of disciplinary imports. American Journal of Economics & Sociology. doi: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2012.x
What are the volume and issue numbers and pages?
One major piece of information given in an APA in-text citation that does not appear in an MLA in-text citation.
What is the date?
Three things that characterize a "long quotation."
What are 40 words or more, no quotation marks, and indented a half inch. (Also, the period comes before the final parenthetical reference.)
The main difference between a paraphrase and a summary?
What is a paraphrase is about the same length as the original; a summary is a condensed version of a what is generally a longer passage, such as a chapter.
Three items that must appear on the title page.
What are (Possible answers include page number, title, author's name, date, school affiliation, professor's name).
How a government document with no author should be cited on the References page.
What is instead of the author, give the governmental department that authored the document: U.S. Census Bureau or U.S. Transportation Department.