Unit 1c: Writing Your Use APA Verb Style

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Unit 1c Writing Your Use APA Verb Style
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Verb Tenses(action)

• Future tense for what you will do.
• Review of Literature
• PAST
• PRESENT PERFECT
• Discussion
• PRESENT TENSE

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Pay Attention to to Grammar
Theres a lot to learn from the APA Publication
Manual
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Dash

• Use the dash--two hyphens--to indicate only a
  sudden interruption in the continuity of a
  sentence.
•  YES These subjects--from the first and second
  groups--were tested separately.

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Use Commas

• Between elements (including before and and or) in
  a series of three or more items.
• Example Use the comma, period, and other
  punctuation correctly.

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Use a colon
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• Between a grammatically complete introductory
  clauses and a final phrase or clause that
  illustrates, extends, or amplifies the preceding
  thought.
• Do not use a colon after an introduction that is
  not a complete sentence.  YES The change
  contained three elements beliefs, behavior, and
  skills.  YES The scholars have agreed on the
  outcome Media-related violence accounts for ten
  percent of violence. 
• Capitalize after the colon.

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Possessive Case
s's

• To indicate ownership, use apostrophe followed by
  s.  Create the possessive case of a singular
  noun that does not end in the letter s by adding
  an apostrophe and s.
• YES player's
• YES Chris's research study design.

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Final Details

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Avoid Plagiarism
Cite correctly!

• Walker (2002) compared reaction times.  In
  a recent study of reaction times (Walker, 2006),
    Wasserstein, Zappulla, Rosen, and Rock (2006)
  found. . .  . . . findings were consistent"
  (Wasserstein, Zappulla, Rosen, Rock, 2010, p.
  278).  . . . throughout the current literature
  (Adams Warley, 2006 Casanova, 2002 Ellerby,
  2005).   Omit the year from subsequent
  citations after first citation within a
  paragraph. Look up in your APA manual how to
  cite and reference.
• Include a Reference List at the end of your
  proposal.

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Reference List

• Include every source cited in the reference list.
• Reference list needs to contain ONLY sources
  cited.
• Cite all sources whether paraphrased or quoted
  directly.
• Give page number or paragraph number of direct
  quotations.

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End Unit 1 Lecture

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