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Your responses should follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful. Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics. Use the APA style only for citations. More details can be found in the GEL 1.1 Universal Writing Rubric.

The purpose of this assignment is to allow the learner to demonstrate writing skills, organizational skills, and ability to correctly present ideas and credit others in APA format when writing a professional paper.

Download any article of interest, and using your knowledge of the APA style, critique the paper to see if the author(s) used the APA style accurately. Support your answer with scholarly evidences.

While reviewing the comments on my draft, I noticed that I do need to take the extra step of double checking my grammar. I noticed that most of my mechanical errors, were simple mistakes and could have been corrected if only I would have taken the time to read the draft out loud a second time. I also noticed that I made a lot of APA formatting errors. However, these errors can be fixed with a little more research. The errors may seem like generalizations but I know that with a little more research I can find the sources needed to back up my claims. I did, however, become a little confused with some of the APA formatting error highlights. For example, in my second paragraph I ask a question that creates a pathway to my next paragraph. This confused

APA style was developed, so that when material is written it is understandable and the material written is a constant presentation. The writing rules that APA express is citation of references, presentation of statistics, abbreviations, punctuation, and the making of headings(American Psychological Association, 2017).

I am glad you are becoming a more confident writer by utilizing all we have offered to us, I think we all are, slowly but surely. I also liked seeing you mention the APA quick guide PDF. This is saved to my desktop, one would think as much as I use it, I would have this APA thing down to a science; yet I do not. More on a personal note here also on our struggle with APA, let me tell you about my experience with the online staff at Bethel Library.

I think your way of ahead of game in our field if APA format comes naturally to you as writer you have already faced a giant in our field of writing. I think personally this one of my biggest issues ensuring my paper is formatted correctly using APA due to me having many years of practice using MLA format. I also believe I relate better to MLA format because it isn’t has strict and your able your owns works and personal experiences which is often how I get my point across to

American Psychological Association (APA) writing style exists for a reason and this reason is because writers' must give “credibility where credibility is due”(Walden Writing Center, 2015) . During my BSW program I learned this and also, the importance of integrity in college level writing. In my opinion, two aspects of APA that I think will not challenge me are direct quotations and listing references. I have to admit I prefer to quote intellecutual matter directly rather than, use paraphazing. I believe this is approriate to do if the quote you utilize is short and all of your agrguments regarding, the content of the quote, are your own ideas. Another thing that will come easily to me is listing my references. This comes easily to me because during my undergraduate education, I excelled in this area. The reason for this is because everytime I wrote a reference page I always refered to my courses APA manual.

As learned from the CTC Academic Studio, there are basics to writing an APA style paper. APA style papers should always be written in 12 pt. Times New Roman and double spaced (Paiz et al., 2016). The APA style paper should also include a running head with page numbers at the

I feel that I need to continue to work on my APA formatting as formatting your writings correctly is extremely important. I am familiar with the APA formatting as I used this with both my Associates and my Bachelors degree; however, over time I have found that I am forgetting the basic rules. I have also always struggled with formating my citations correctly as the formatting depends on the type of article.

In academic writing, APA, MLA and Chicago style are the most common. Each writing style requires different formats, grammar rules and citation styles. In order to get a top score on the assignment, the student must be able to follow the writing style exactly. Since this can be extremely challenging to do, successful students purchase a style book or borrow one from the library.

The following paper will increase ones knowledge on academic style writing and why APA format is used. Academic style is used everywhere however, why do we use this form of writing, and why do we use APA format in writing these papers. What are the most important aspects of using APA format in our writing? APA is a form of writing that is used everywhere; there are specific ways of using APA format and there are also rules you have to follow. These so-called rules are set in place so that people are given credit where credit is do. Therefore when people are working on publishing a paper it needs to be in APA format so others know that they did not do all the research on their own; they had help from others before them on the topic. If a certain

When it comes to sentence structure, there is no alternative for the fundamentals. Adhering to the rules of proper grammar once writing whether it is academic, professional, or personal. When it comes to style, one must take percussions in adhering to the guidelines specified the American Psychological Association (APA) style. “Preparing a scholarly manuscript requires attention to detail...” (Lambert et al., 2003).

The APA format is the official style of the American Psychological Association; in other word it is the most common cited source used in psychology, education and social science based on the article: APA format: 12 basic rules. Even if this format seems to be a littler complicate because of all the process that need to be done, it is absolutely beneficiary for the writer as well as for the reader to present and subtract the idea from the paper.

As with anything in life there are always exceptions. I am sure that there will be circumstances that will arise that I will be unsure how to reference. However, I do find the APA format to be is the simplest format to me. I am going to keep my APA Quick Guide handy because I am sure I will need guidance and it is comforting knowing help is only a phone or email away. I look forward to using this