ASSIGNMENT 6: ESSAY

SAMPLE
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Contents
American Psychological Association Style Sample ............................... 2

Discussion .................................................................................................... 2

Examples ...................................................................................................... 2

Format ........................................................................................................... 3

Summary....................................................................................................... 3

References ................................................................................................... 4

APA Style Sample 1

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American Psychological Association Style

Sample

The American Psychological Association (APA) style is primarily

used in the social science disciplines. It is formatted like Modern
Language Association (MLA), and shows many similarities, but is
unique in several key points. This paper discusses the APA in detail.
Look at Referencing Help sheet – there is a sentence that needs to be
added here. You need to remember to insert the two citations with
RefWorks (do not just copy and paste the sentence).

Discussion
APA uses parenthetical (or in-text) citations within sentences,
but rather than indicating the author's name and page number, APA
includes author's name and date of publication. The page number,
represented with a p. or a pp., is only added to the citation when using a
direct quote (not a summary or paraphrase). If the author's name is
mentioned in the sentence, then place the date of publication in
parentheses directly after the name. If the name is not mentioned
include the author's name and date in parentheses at the end of the
source material. And, if you use a direct quote, place the page number
after the publication date within the parentheses.

Examples

Note the difference between the following three examples:

Terrence (1999) has presented poignant examples from 150 interviews.

However, it has been pointed out that the research was conducted in a

selective, highly biased, way (Strong & Porter, 1998). All of the

interviewees have been called “exceptions to the norm” (Strong & Porter,

1998, p. 5).

Note the first example paraphrases an author that is named in

the sentence, the second example paraphrases authors that are not
named in the sentence, and the third example provides a direct quote

APA Style Sample 2

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(thus the inclusion of the page numbers) but also does not identify the
authors within the sentence. If the authors were identified within the
sentence in the third example, the authors' names would be followed by
the year of publication and only the page numbers would be in the
parentheses at the end of the quote.

Format

Finally, the bibliographic page in APA style differs from MLA,

what APA calls the Reference page. You will notice a few immediate
differences from the MLA Works Cited format. With APA you include
the initial of the author's first name rather than the complete name, the
publication date immediately follows the author's name in parentheses,
and titles of articles are not surrounded with quotation marks. The lists
are still alphabetized by author's last name (or title in the absence of an
author) and the first line is flush left while subsequent lines in the same
entry are indented in (approximately 5 spaces or one tab). A good
resource to help you with referencing is Notre Dame’s referencing
guide at http://library.nd.edu.au/referencing/apa#s-lg-box-3040351. There
is also a summary downloadable help document available at:
http://library.nd.edu.au/ld.php?content_id=8053459. In APA Style, you
include a reference list rather than a bibliography with your paper
(APA, 2017). A reference list consists of all sources cited in the text of a
paper whereas a bibliography may include resources that were
consulted but not cited in the text as well as an annotated description of
each one.

Summary

The School of Education, University of Notre Dame Australia,

uses the APA 6th referencing style for all written documents. In addition
to in text referencing and the reference list there are a number of
formatting requirements to ensure your essay complies with APA
standards. Get to know the APA 6th.

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References

APA. (2017) Bibliography versus reference list. Retrieved from

http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-

references.aspx#Bibliography

Hosney, M., & Fatima, S. (2014). Attitude of students towards cheating and

plagiarism: University case study. Journal of Applied Sciences, 14(8),

748-757. doi:10.3923/jas.2014.748.757

Strong, R. L., Porter, M. (1998), Grammatical Combinations. In S. Parker

& K. Gibson (Eds.), Language and Literacy (p 540-578) Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

Terrence, H. S. (2007, November 1). Student Success in Community

Colleges. The West Australian, p. 6-7

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