General
How many pages should your essay be?
4-6
What three elements should be in the parenthetical citation for a quotation?
Author's last name, year, page number.
What elements must be in every in-text citation?
Last name of the author and year published
What is the difference between an in-text citation and a reference?
In-text citations are in your paragraphs (Jackson, 2018, p. 7) and the reference is on the last page and give all the important details to find the original source.
How should the references be ordered in a reference list?
In alphabetical order of the author (whichever last name appears first in the citation)
How many academic sources do you need?
3
Is the following citation for a quotation correct? She stated, "Students often had difficulty using APA style" (Jones, 1998, p. 199), but she did not offer an explanation as to why.
Yes.
What should you put in a citation if the author is unknown?
Cite the source by its title in the signal phrase or use the first word or two in the parentheses. Titles of books and reports are italicized or underlined; titles of articles, chapters, and web pages are in quotation marks.
Do you need page or paragraph numbers for a summary?
No, they are not required.
What should the title of a reference page look like?
References, centered, not bold.
What does development mean?
Your points are appropriately supported by descriptions, explanations, examples, and sources.
Is the following citation for a quotation correct? According to Jones, "Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (1998, p. 199).
No: According to Jones (1998), "Students often had difficulty using APA style, especially when it was their first time" (p. 199).
What should you put for an in-text citation if the year of publication is unknown?
(n.d.)
When using section headings, how should you format them for this class?
Centered and title case (Title case means that the first letter of each word is capitalized, except for certain small words, such as articles and short prepositions.)
How should the author's name and the year always appear at the beginning of a reference?
Last name, first initial. (Year).
What should your conclusion include?
Do NOT introduce new information, synthesize, a call for action, simplicity, tell them why/what you told them
“A conclusion that does not simply restate the thesis, but readdresses it in light of the evidence provided.” (OWL Purdue)
Give two situations when a quotation would be better to use than a summary.
when the exact author's wording is particularly striking; when the author is an authoritative source; when you take issue with what the author says
Is the following citation for two authors correct? There is a specific way to cite information from a source by two authors (Wegener and Petty, 1994).
No. If the Authors' names appear in the text, you can use "and". If the names are in the parenthetical, they need to have the ampersand, &.
What should the page formatting be?
1 inch margins, 12 point Times New Roman Font, double spaced, indented
What is wrong with this citation for a book?
Calfee, & Valencia. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Missing first initial of authors.
What is the difference between the introduction and background?
Any acceptable answer.
When should you use a block quotation?
For quotations of 40 words or longer.
When do you use "et al."?
For sources with 3-5 authors, for every subsequent citation after the first one. Always for sources with more than 5 authors. (basically, for 3 or more authors)
How should you format a journal reference you found online?
Example:
Agaric, A. & Garcia, I. (2002). The historic uses of pangrams and Latin filler text. International Journal of Greeked Text, 69(8), 101-121. Retrieved from http://fillertextsunlimited.com/lorem-ipsum
What is wrong with the following citation for a journal article?
Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for Preparing Psychology Journal Articles. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 893-896.
Title of article should only have first word capitalized.