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APA Writing Guide

Students adhering to the APA Writing Guide will find a great deal more style suggestionsthan those having to do with references.

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APA Writing Guide

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  1. APAWritingGuide StudentsadheringtotheAPAWritingGuidewillfindagreatdealmorestylesuggestions thanthosehavingtodowith references.Studentsaremerelythemostfamiliar withall the referencinginstructions.Regardless,thereareplenty of other instructionsthatwill keepauthorsontheir toes. Writing anAbstract AccordingtothecurrentAPAWritingGuide,theabstractisdesignedtosum upapaper inaround120words.Moreconcisewritingissomethingpreferred.Thesisstatements, importantinformationand mainideasshouldall beincludedinthissection.Iftherewere anypeculiarabbreviationsoruniquetermsinvolvedinapaper thentheyshouldbe definedintheabstract. Naturallytheabstracthastobewritteninthesamevoicethattheauthor usesfor the restofthepaper.Theactual word"Abstract" isgenerallycenteredwithoutany underliningbeforethepage.Whileit mightseemunusualnottoattachaproper title,this is thepreferredmethod. LargeQuotations Anyquotethat'slonger thanfour wordshas tobesetapartinablock.Thesequotesare usuallydouble-spacedandthenindentedahalf-inchfromtheleftmargin.However,a blockquoteisnotsetapartbyquotationmarks.Theuniquetypesettingandthefactthat itrestsonitsownisenoughtoindicatethatthe material iscited.Finalpunctuationis placedbeforethecitation,asinthefollowingexample: LawrenceJ.Henderson (1914)wroteonthetopic ofspectrumanalysis,stating: Anew periodinthehistory of astronomyfolloweduponthediscoveryofspectrum analysisbyBunsenandKirchhoff.Attheoutsetthechemical compositionofthesun revealeditself.Later thatofthestarsbecameknown;still later itbecamepossibleto classifythestarsonthebasisoftheir spectra.(p.13) Order professional APA editing at www.APAEditor.net!

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