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Topic 3 DQ 1 Jan 4-6, 2024 Read the Instructional Strategies to Improve College Students' APA Style Writing article located in Class Resources. Based on your understanding of this article, identify two ways professors can better teach APA to students (100 -125 words). Please share three things you learned about APA that will help you become a stronger writer. (100-125 words). Based on the reading from Instructional Strategies to Improve College Students' APA Style Writing , two ways professors can better teach APA to students would be to (2015): 1. Allow student to learn from their errors in their own work. a. Professors can provide students with an incentive (i.e., small extra credit or a revised grade) by allowing students to make the necessary corrections to any APA errors on previously submitted work after having reviewed any detailed comments inserted into the paper by the professor detailing the APA errors needing ramification. 2. Professors can teach students to recognize their APA errors by highlighting them in the work submitted so students can avoid making the same mistakes when submitting future works (Mandernach et. al., 2015, pgs. 410-11). a. Professors may also provide additional APA templates/examples not previously given so that students have additional resources to reference when writing APA papers later in the course. Three plus things I learned about APA that will help me become a stronger writer are knowing the following categories of papers that can being written (2011): a. Empirical studies : are based on theories or ideas, but on actual data; takes the data from observations and experiments to generate research reports. b. Literature reviews : purpose is to gather information about a current issue or problem and to communicate where that issue or problem stands today; it analyzes another individual’s work or a group of works and sheds light on issues while also attempting to fill in any gaps with suggestions for future research and methods. c. Theoretical articles : are like literature reviews in that the author collects, examines, and shares information about a current issue or problem, by using others’ research. It is different from literature reviews in that it attempts to explain or solve a problem by coming up with a new theory that is justified with valid evidence.

d. Methodological articles : utilizes data or documentation researched by the author to prove that their new method, or improvement to a method, is valid; the articles will showcase new advances, or modifications to an existing practice, in a scientific method or procedure: the writer stives to explains the current method being used in addition to his/her own findings in an effort to help the reader better understand and modify his/her own current practices. e. Case studies : present information related an individual, group, or larger set of individuals that has been analyzed for a specific reason; the writer reports on the method and conclusions from their study and may even make suggestions for future research, create possible theories, and/or determine a solution to a problem (EasyBib, 2011). References EasyBib. (2011, October 31). APA format: Everything you need to know here - EasyBib . EasyBib®: Free Bibliography Generator - MLA, APA, Chicago citation styles. https://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/apa-format/ Mandernach, B. J., Zafonte, M., & Taylor, C. (2015). Instructional Strategies to Improve College Students’ APA Style Writing. International Journal of Teaching & Learning in Higher Education, 27(3), 407– 412.

References Bachchhav, P. (2023, December 10). A step-by-step guide to APA formatting style (7th edition). Professional Proofreading Services | Online Editing & Proofreading | Copy Editor | PaperTrue . https://www.papertrue.com/blog/apa-formatting-guidelines/

Topic 3 DQ 2 Jan 4-8, 2024 What is a summary? A summary is a short overview of something you have read. You are taking in the information and condensing that information into an overview for the reader. A summary differs from a paraphrase; remember, a paraphrase is you restating what the author said using your own words. Based on your reading of chapter 6 in Mastering Graduate Studies and the Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style Lesson 7 “Bias-Free Language,” (located in Topic 2 Class Resources) share three things you learned about summarizing that will help you become a stronger writer. (200-250 words). Based on the reading of chapter 6 in Mastering Graduate Studies and the Academic Writer Tutorial: Basics of Seventh Edition APA Style Lesson 7 “Bias-Free Language,” the following three things learned about summarizing will help me become a stronger writer: 1. A summary is written in one’s own words, not the words of the originating author(s). 2. A summary contains only the ideas of the original text. 3. A summary does not include the insertion of one’s own opinions, interpretations, deductions or comments of the subject(s) (Lumen Learning, n.d.). I also found the following from Lumen Learning (n.d.) to be helpful when needing further clarification on how to properly format a summary:  The summary should be in the form of a paragraph.  A summary will begin with an introductory sentence that states the text’s title, author and main point of the text as you see it.  The summary should identify in order the significant sub-claims the author uses to defend the main point (Lumen Learn, n.d.). Resources Lumen Learning. (n.d.). How to write a summary . Kellogg Community College |. https://www.kellogg.edu/upload/eng151/chapter/how-to-write-a-summary/index.html

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