Chapter 34: APA Documentation Format Summary
In this chapter we learned about how to write an APA formatted paper. The chapter listed guidelines for you to follow, such as, having a separate title page, placing references in the text, what the margins should be like, and page numbers. In an APA formatted paper, you should always have a separate title page and you should always include your references. You need to have a margin of at least one inch on all sides of the paper and have the page number in the top right hand margin. You also always need to have an abstract. And abstract is a 100- to 150-word paragraph summarizing your paper. Having an appendix in your APA paper is really up to the instructor, per this chapter. The chapter also gives several examples on how to document where you get your information, or the content of your paper from. There are proper ways to tell and show in-text citations and reference entries such as book and other documents, printed periodical articles, online sources, and other sources like primary, personal and multimedia. I really found that this chapter will be very helpful when we write a paper that needs to be in APA format. I’m sure I will be referring back to it a lot when writing my social sciences paper.
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