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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
  • Ode to Mad Science
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