Quick Insight on APA
A professor from Stockton University, Tom Kluxen teaches a "not-so-quick guide to APA style" lecture. In my. blog today I am going to sum up most of the stuff that he talks about in his lecture.
First of all, APA stands for American Psychological Association, and is mostly used for research driven writing. APA has two key components of It, following a format and citing to avoid plagiarism.
You can actually type in "APA" into the search bar on the create a new document on either Microsoft word or google docs, It will give you a set up, of what you have to include and add to make your paper APA. Tom Kluxen states that you still need to know how to use APA while using the quick format due to the template having a general understand of APA, and some of your papers may not need everything that is included.
The format for the APA paper is Title Page, Abstract, Body and References. APA is a standard 12 font size, and the most required font is Times New Roman. The paper needs to be double spaced, have one inch margins, a running header on the left top corner of the page which is the name of your title in all caps, and the page number in the top right corner of every page. On the first page of your paper, for you running header of the title, you need It to say "Running head (title name in caps)" and then after that you can erase the "running head" and just have the name of the paper.
The center of your title page includes, the name of the paper, your name under that, and then the institution underneath that. At the very bottom of the page is the authors note, just giving some little background information on the paper and how and why you wrote it.
The abstract is the next part after the title page, but is actually done last, due to the abstract being a complete summary of your entire paper. 150-250 words is the average amount that should be in the abstract. You don't want to get into to much detail while writing the abstract because you still want your reader to read the rest of the paper and not just stop after the abstract because that is where they got most of their information.
Your body paragraphs are mainly your whole entire reason of writing the paper. This is where you are mainly going to give the reader what they want. While APA is all about research, most of your paper is going to have specific information and data and statistics which are all going to come from credible sources. All of the research and everything has to be cited.
Your sources need to be good sources. Don't use websites that people can edit such as wikipedia or anything like that. You want the most recent data, from reliable sources, such as books or academic journals.
Citing you paper, for in-text citations you need the year that It was published and the authors last name, and sometimes a page number (only if It is included). Websites such as Purdue O.W.L, those can help you with making a easy citation. You want to keep your quotations short also. You than have to go back to the quote and explain what its about. Using the ICE method. Introduce, Cite, Explain. Introduce with a single phrase, cute with the text citation and explain with your own opinion on what you feel the quote does for your paper and what It means.
The reference page is alphabetized by the authors last name and has a hanging indent. The only thing capitalized is the first word of the titles and subtitles and proper nouns.
Overall while watching this video, Kluxen sums up everything that you must need to know about APA format, and how to perfect It to the best of your ability. He did a great job lecturing all of this information in a not-so-quick amount of time.
The book "Untangling The Web" by Steve Dembo and Adam Bellow, gives 20 tools to power up your teaching! The first chapter talks about curation tools. It talks about people saving and sharing their bookmarks and resources with the world. Making things easier for everyone to access. This is what is called a curation tool. Its taking what you know you are going to use or need in the future and saving them for later use. Curation was started to organize ones life, giving help to someone and making sure they can find something they need easier than ever before. Three of the very best curation websites are symbaloo, diigo, and educlipper.
First of all, APA stands for American Psychological Association, and is mostly used for research driven writing. APA has two key components of It, following a format and citing to avoid plagiarism.
You can actually type in "APA" into the search bar on the create a new document on either Microsoft word or google docs, It will give you a set up, of what you have to include and add to make your paper APA. Tom Kluxen states that you still need to know how to use APA while using the quick format due to the template having a general understand of APA, and some of your papers may not need everything that is included.
The format for the APA paper is Title Page, Abstract, Body and References. APA is a standard 12 font size, and the most required font is Times New Roman. The paper needs to be double spaced, have one inch margins, a running header on the left top corner of the page which is the name of your title in all caps, and the page number in the top right corner of every page. On the first page of your paper, for you running header of the title, you need It to say "Running head (title name in caps)" and then after that you can erase the "running head" and just have the name of the paper.
The center of your title page includes, the name of the paper, your name under that, and then the institution underneath that. At the very bottom of the page is the authors note, just giving some little background information on the paper and how and why you wrote it.
The abstract is the next part after the title page, but is actually done last, due to the abstract being a complete summary of your entire paper. 150-250 words is the average amount that should be in the abstract. You don't want to get into to much detail while writing the abstract because you still want your reader to read the rest of the paper and not just stop after the abstract because that is where they got most of their information.
Your body paragraphs are mainly your whole entire reason of writing the paper. This is where you are mainly going to give the reader what they want. While APA is all about research, most of your paper is going to have specific information and data and statistics which are all going to come from credible sources. All of the research and everything has to be cited.
Your sources need to be good sources. Don't use websites that people can edit such as wikipedia or anything like that. You want the most recent data, from reliable sources, such as books or academic journals.
Citing you paper, for in-text citations you need the year that It was published and the authors last name, and sometimes a page number (only if It is included). Websites such as Purdue O.W.L, those can help you with making a easy citation. You want to keep your quotations short also. You than have to go back to the quote and explain what its about. Using the ICE method. Introduce, Cite, Explain. Introduce with a single phrase, cute with the text citation and explain with your own opinion on what you feel the quote does for your paper and what It means.
The reference page is alphabetized by the authors last name and has a hanging indent. The only thing capitalized is the first word of the titles and subtitles and proper nouns.
Overall while watching this video, Kluxen sums up everything that you must need to know about APA format, and how to perfect It to the best of your ability. He did a great job lecturing all of this information in a not-so-quick amount of time.
The book "Untangling The Web" by Steve Dembo and Adam Bellow, gives 20 tools to power up your teaching! The first chapter talks about curation tools. It talks about people saving and sharing their bookmarks and resources with the world. Making things easier for everyone to access. This is what is called a curation tool. Its taking what you know you are going to use or need in the future and saving them for later use. Curation was started to organize ones life, giving help to someone and making sure they can find something they need easier than ever before. Three of the very best curation websites are symbaloo, diigo, and educlipper.
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