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COMM1020 Source: https://www.nativespeakeronline.com/confusing- words/lend-and-borrow English Communications II APA Documentation APA APA stands for American Psychological Associa...

COMM1020 Source: https://www.nativespeakeronline.com/confusing- words/lend-and-borrow English Communications II APA Documentation APA APA stands for American Psychological Association. Its style guide is a set of rules for documenting information that you take from a source (e.g. website, article, book) and use in your report. Your best source for APA guidelines is https://apastyle.apa.or g the official APA website: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-gramma r-guidelines UDST also offers lots of APA resources: The Basics: Avoiding Plagiarism Accidental plagiarism happens when you forget to cite. Intentional plagiarism is copying without permission. To cite a source means to provide publication information (In-text & Reference List)about the material you used or discussed in your report. To attribute a source means https://libraryguides.vu.edu.au/apa-referencing/7Webpages to give credit to the original authors. You must attribute  The Basics: Cite a Source DOI stands for Digital Object Identifier. It uniquely identifies Reference electronic documents. List In-Text Reference List A references list is a list of sources that is: Placed on a separate page at the end of a document. Used to locate and retrieve any sources. Ordered alphabetically. Formatted using hanging indents (all lines except the first are indented). Double-spaced. Identified by the heading, The Basics: In-Text (Parenthetical & Narrative styles) APA In-Text Citation for Multiple Authors – Two, Three, or More When a book has three or more authors, cite only the surname of the first author followed by et al. and the year for the first and subsequent citations. APA Interactive (7th ed.) https://owll.massey.ac.nz/referencing/apa-interactive.php Cite All Your Sources: Direct quote vs. Paraphrase An in-text citation is the publication information in your sentence or in parentheses at the end of your sentence about the source of your information. Direct quotations Paraphrased ideas and information Visuals: Table and Figures Direct Quotation: Bianchi, Casper, and King (2006) note that “Work and family constitute the two most important domains of adulthood”. Paraphrase: Bianchi, Casper, and King (2006) note that work and family are vitally important to adults. Attribution Systems & Language Integrate your sources Cite Tables Table 1 Number of students by department who visited the Advanced Writing Centre at least twice (Fall 2007) _____________________________________________ Department Number of Students Tables and figures simplify _____________________________________________ complex data and make it Business Studies 113 easier to understand. Engineering Technology 72 Health Science 29 Enhance and clarify your Information Technology - discussion content Industrial Trades 14 _____________________________________________ Follow APA format Note: Information Technology survey results were not Citation available at the time of this report. Adapted from Al Hamad, 2012, p. 22; Al Marri, 2015, p. 15; Qatar University, 2017, para. 12. Cite Figures Enhance and clarify your discussion content Follow APA format Citation Integrate Visuals IDD Formula I – Introduce (tell) D – Display (show) D- Discuss (explain) Appendix An appendix contains extra information that may be useful to the reader. If you’ve included an appendix item, try to refer to it in the report. For example: According to an interview with UDST instructor, Hank Williams (see appendix A), …. Reference appendix items in the reference page as you would any other source. key concepts for APA 7 Assignment key concepts for APA 7 Assignment Available in D2L Folder: Structured APA Available in D2L Folder: Structured APA  COMM1020 Source: https://www.nativespeakeronline.com/confusing- words/lend-and-borrow English Communications II APA Documentation