4.5 APA Formatting and Punctuations

Today’s lesson will be about:

Objectives

You will be able to:

• Learn specific constructions to avoid in academic writing.
• Practice replacing the inappropriate words/phrases with appropriate ones.
• Describe formatting rules required for academic papers – font, spacing, alignment, margins, and indentation.
• Execute the formatting in Microsoft Word in multiple ways.
• Modify a sample research paper in MS Word in the following way:

          --Insert page numbers
          --Develop a shortened title and create a running head
          --Format a title page with a title, author, and institutional affiliation.

Warm up Discussion
Video1
Video2

Academic Tone?

PPT_AcademicTone

http://sana.tkk.fi/awe/style/sentence/runon/index.html

Formatting Guide

APA Formatting Rules Handout

What’s missing?

Missing_Handout1

Missing_Answer

Purdue OWL General Format:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Individual Conferences

We will have individual conferences from May 1 (Thursday), 2 (Friday) and 5 (Monday). Discussion will be about your IRP Solution1 and 2. Bring all works (electronically or hard copies) that you have done for IRP Solution 1 and 2.

Please come 5 minutes earlier before your sign-up time. Check the time on Google Doc.

(If you are late for the individual conference, you will get 1 tardy on attendance. If you don’t come, you will get 1 absence.)

Homework

With the PIE Outline for Solution2, write three paragraphs for Solution 2.

*Name the file “Draft_Solution2_Your First Name”

*Upload the file on Google Drive>>>Unit4 IRP.

*Due date and time: Apr, 29 (Tuesday) before 6:30 pm sharp.

Unit3. APA Citations

If you get yellow highlights on your APA citations of ABs, please redo them again. Download the file here.

*Name the file as “APA citation_Your First Name”

*Upload it on Google Drive>>>Unit3 Annotated Bibliography.

*Due date and time: Apr, 27 by 11:55pm sharp.

Reflective Essay #2

Words for Wisdom

Pretend that you are giving advice for new students taking the class next semester as they begin their individual research process. Write out several paragraphs of advice for them based on your experience though the pre-research, annotated bibliography and IRP lessons.

*The reflective essay will be graded on the quality of and effort put into it rather than the grammar or paragraph structure.

*Your response should be more than 400 words with APA style: 12pt., Times New Roman, double-spaced, 1-inch margins on all four sides.

*You will be graded not on grammar or structure, but on the effort of your reflection.

*Name the file as “Reflective Essay2_Your First Name”

*Upload the file on Google Drive>>>Reflective Essays.

*Due date and time: May, 1 (Thursday) 8:00 pm sharp.

Here is the schedule for lessons and homework assignments. Check the assignments and due date and time.

Lessons	Due date and time	Homework
In-text citation and quoting	Apr, 17 (R)	Complete the PIE Outline for Solution1.
Introduction and conclusion	Apr, 22 (T)	Write 3 paragraphs for Solution1.
APA formatting and punctuation	Apr, 24 (R)	Complete the PIE Outline for Solution2.
Peer perception on solution 1, 2 and 3	Apr, 29 (T)	Write 3 paragraphs for Solution2.
Electives	May, 1 (R)	Complete the PIE Outline for Solution3.
No class	May, 6 (T)	Write 3 paragraphs for Solution3. Individual conferences
Reading day	May, 8 (R)	IRP final submission