ASSIGNMENT 5: Essay Sample

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Contents
Overview..................................................................................................
Discussion................................................................................................
Examples...............................................................................................
Format..................................................................................................
Summary..................................................................................................
References...............................................................................................

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Graduation

APA Style Sample

Overview
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. Addressing plagiarism has
become a major challenge in education (Bretag, 2013) and educating students in
referencing correctly with the APA 6th is one way of trying to overcome the problem.

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
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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 (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
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(approximately 5 spaces or one tab). A good resource to help you with

referencing is Notre Dames 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,
Bibliography Versus
Reference List). 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.

References

APA. Bibliography versus reference list. Retrieved from

http://www.apastyle.org/learn/quick-guide-on-references.aspx#Bibliography

Bretag, T. (2013). Challenges in addressing plagiarism in education. PLoS Med, 10(12),

e1001574.

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Hosny, 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 Parker, S. & Gibson, K. (Ed.), language and literacy (pp. 540-578) Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Terrence, H. S. (1999, November 1). Student success in community colleges.

Oregonian, pp. A6-A7.

Weintraub, D.Graduation [photograph]. Retrieved from

http://quest.eb.com/search/139_1920759/1/139_1920759/cite