NSE 101 Week 4 Academic Integrity & Style Rules PDF

Academic Integrity and Style Rules © Communicatio n Course Weekly Learning Outcomes 1. Identify style rules. 2. Understand academic integrity. 3. Describe how to avoid plagiarism. 4. Practice writing skills Style Rules...

Academic Integrity and Style Rules © Communicatio n Course Weekly Learning Outcomes 1. Identify style rules. 2. Understand academic integrity. 3. Describe how to avoid plagiarism. 4. Practice writing skills Style Rules Student Tip Ensures uniform writing Making a Manual Work for You You may find style manuals confusing. Start by looking at the APA – American Table of Contents and review the most relevant sections. You could Psychological create a summary sheet of key Association points or use stick-on tabs to mark important pages or highlight 7th edition (2020) important sections. Manuals provide https://apastyle.apa.org/ - samples of title pages, abstracts, introductions, citations, and check out the link “style references, and you should model and grammar guidelines” your work based on these samples. Twitter: @APA_Style (Lapum et al., 2019) APA – Common Style Rules 1 inch margins with left justification Double space Times New Roman 12 point font Page numbers in top right corner starting on title page Indent first line of every paragraph 0.5 inch One space after each sentence Title of paper should appear on first line of the text of your paper: title case, bold and centred (APA, 2020 as cited in Lapum et al., 2019) Title Page – APA Style It’s the FIRST thing your professor will see Adhere to APA Grab your reader’s attention with the TITLE Video on how to create a title page: Killam, L. A. [NurseKillam] (2020, January 6). How to create a student title page in APA format 7th edition using Microsoft Word 2019 [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/AoJ6PsoBQ04 Sample title page: Style Rules – The Scholarship of Writing in Nursing Education: 1st Canadian Edition (torontomu.ca) (APA, 2020 as cited in Lapum et al., 2019) Levels of Heading – APA Style The levels of heading depend on Student Tip the number of headings you have Your introduction should NOT have a heading. However, remember, the Check out inside cover of APA title of your paper should book or check out this link: be on the first page of the text of your paper (centred, https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guid bolded, titled case) – this elines/paper-format/headings title is in fact your first Level 1 heading. (APA, 2020 as cited in Lapum et al., 2019) Academic Integrity Student Tip RU Academic Integrity Policy The truthful presentation of your #60 own ideas and identifying when pol60.pdf (torontomu.ca) you are incorporating the work of others. A citation is a reference to another Check out RU university’s person’s work Academic Integrity Office, Plagiarism which has tutorials, videos, Not giving credit to the work of quizzes, and other resources another person when you use their related to academic integrity: work For Students - Academic Integrity - Toront Self-plagiarism o Metropolitan University (torontomu.ca) Failing to cite can lead to a charge of plagiarism Check out the audiopodcast with Turnitin John Paul Foxe – Director of the Academic Integrity Office at Avoiding plagiarism Ryerson University Plagiarism and Self-Plagiarism – The Scholarship of Academic Integrity – The Scholarship of W Writing in Nursing Education: 1st Canadian Edition (torontomu.ca) riting in Nursing Education: 1st Canadian (Lapum et al., 2019) Edition (torontomu.ca) Paraphrasing and Direct Quotations Paraphrasing involves presenting Student Tip ideas from source material in your own words Don’t just substitute Accurately represent the idea in your own words words in a paraphrase Direct quotations involves using Limit your use of direct the exacting word from a source quotations and avoid Only use when paraphrasing the unnecessarily long original text would weaken it because it is so vivid and powerful as is quotations. (Lapum et al., 2019) In-text Citations You only have to cite authors once within a paragraph IF, it is clear that the other sentences that are paraphrased are by the author you previously cited. It MUST be clear when a sentence is your own original idea and when it is being paraphrased. Each source you cite must be in the reference list and each source in the reference list must be cited in your paper. APA (2020) uses author-date citation system. Example: Citing is an important part of demonstrating academic integrity. Hart and Lu-Ann (2019) argued that many students do not cite appropriately. They further stated that students often fail to indicate where a reference begins and ends. In my experience, I have found that students do not reference enough. Many students lose grades because of poor citations, and this is often because they do not understand the nuances of APA citation (Hart & Lu-Ann, 2019). Check out film clip 9.3 about citing another person’s (APA,ideas: 2020 as cited in Lapum et al., In-text Citations of One or Multiple Authors Link to required reading In-text Citation Types – One or Multiple Authors – The Scholarship of Writing in Nursing Education: 1st Canadian E dition (torontomu.ca) Variations A work by one author or two authors Two or more works by the same author Works by authors with the same last name A work by three or more authors (APA, 2020 as cited in Lapum et al.,  Reference Page Student Tip Extensive information about the brief citations that you use in your paper. DOI is used when Must be clear so that the reader can find the available as reference. opposed to URL Start on a new page and title it: References (capitalize DOI is the digital the first letter, bold, and centred). object identifier, Double space entries. which is an Each entry should be flush left and if it continues on identification code next line then, use a hanging indent 0.5 inch for some online Format in alphabetical order based on the first documents. author’s last name of the citation. References generally include URL is the uniform The name(s) of the author(s) or institution/organization that resource locator wrote the source. (e.g., the web The date (most references only require the year of address) publication). The full title. (APA, 2020 as cited in Lapum et al., Academic Integrity and Style Rules Student Tip Part of your writing journey is to become Don’t forget to test familiar with the style rules of academic yourself in the writing in the nursing field. APA might required resource using the test seem like a nuisance at first, but this questions. style is important to ensure consistency and clarity across writing. Your instructors expect you to know it and adhere to it. Familiarize yourself with academic integrity as these standards are the parameters for plagiarism and self- plagiarism. Developing academic integrity is necessary and you want to acknowledge others’ (APA, 2020 as citedideas in Lapumand et al.,voices while finding 2019)and articulating your own.