Concise APA Handbook (eBook)

Mary Frances Agnello, Naoko Araki, Paul Chamness Iida, Rachael Ruegg, Mark de Boer (Autoren)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
75 Seiten
Information Age Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-68123-775-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Most students struggle with learning how to find references, use them effectively, and cite them appropriately in a required format. One of the most common formats is that of APA. The authors all teach at the same university, where their current offtheshelf reference book, while helpful, is filled with a lot of extra information that they do not use and contains missing or incorrect information. The cost of this book also continues to rise. In a search for something else to meet their needs, they discovered that there are no concise guides that deal with APA only that are cost effective or userfriendly for students who are not familiar with using references and formatting an essay in the APA format. In order to offer student writers a source of information that is concise and costeffective, the authors have written this handbook to provide students with important information in clear, concise, userfriendly language, as well as to offer practical examples that will help them grasp the concept of secondary research writing

Much of the published materials present the nitpicky details of APA in very technical terms that are not easy to understand. This handbook presents the same information in simplified terms with images and stepbystep instructions in ways that will make sense to both undergraduate and graduate student writers. Additionally, student writers often struggle with understanding the concept of plagiarism, as well as how to find sources, evaluate the appropriateness of sources, and use sources in effective ways (e.g., how to integrate quotes, when to paraphrase, among others). This book provides this information in a concise and easytounderstand format.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
THE CONCISE APA HANDBOOK 2
CONTENTS 6
1 What Is Referencing and Why Do We Need It? 1 6
2 Plagiarism 5 6
3 Evaluating Sources for Academic Work 13 6
4 In-Text Citation 27 6
5 Making Your Reference List 39 7
6 Formatting 51 7
THE CONCISE APA HANDBOOK 4
By Paul Chamness Miller Rachael Ruegg Naoko Araki Mary Frances Agnello Mark de Boer Akita International University 4
Information Age Publishing, Inc. 4
Charlotte, North Carolina • www.infoagepub.com 4
Preface 8
Acknowledgment 9
1 10
What Is Referencing and Why Do We Need It? 10
Reference 12
2 14
Plagiarism 14
TWO BASIC RULES TO FOLLOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM 15
A MORE DETAILED EXAMINATION OF AVOIDING PLAGIARISM 15
SELF-PLAGIARISM 17
PATCH WRITING 18
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY-RELATED PLAGIARISM 19
THE CONSEQUENCES OF PLAGIARISM 20
A FINAL WORD ABOUT PLAGIARISM 21
REFERENCES 21
3 22
Evaluating Sources for Academic Work 22
Figure 3.1. Example of a basic Google search. 23
Figure 3.2. Google. 23
Figure 3.3. Google Scholar. 23
Details About How to Access Google Scholar 24
Figure 3.4. Sample Google Scholar search. 24
Broadening and Narrowing the Search 24
Figure 3.5. Example using combine connectors. 25
Search Engines for Academic Materials at the Library 28
JSTOR 28
Figure 3.9. Homepage of JSTOR. 28
Figure 3.10. Advanced search page of JSTOR. 28
Figure 3.11. Searching for full-text sources. 29
Figure 3.12. Example of advanced search. 29
Figure 3.13. Search results in JSTOR. 30
LexisNexis 30
Figure 3.14. LexisNexis homepage for Japan and other countries. 30
Figure 3.15. Description of LexisNexis search functions for the Japanese version. 31
Figure 3.17. LexisNexis search results for all versions. 32
Figure 3.18. LexisNexis newspaper results. 32
ScienceDirect 33
Figure 3.19. ScienceDirect home page. 33
Figure 3.20. Example search results of ScienceDirect. 33
Finding Relevant Sources 34
Figure 3.8. Combination of quotations and signal abbreviation. 27
Figure 3.6. Results in Google Scholar. 26
Figure 3.7. Example of Google Scholar and quotations. 26
Table 3.1. List of Signal Abbreviations 27
4 36
In-Text Citation 36
Quotation and Paraphrasing 36
Quotation 36
Paraphrasing 39
INTRODUCING QUOTED AND PARAPHRASED INFORMATION 41
Signal Phrases 41
Table 4.1. Examples of Verbs Used to Show the Relationship Between the Writer and Source Material 42
Parenthetical In-Text Citation 43
Citing Information That Has Been Cited by Others 43
References 45
5 48
Making Your Reference List 48
WHY DO I NEED A REFERENCE LIST? 48
WHAT SHOULD I INCLUDE IN MY REFERENCE LIST? 48
WHERE DOES THE REFERENCE LIST GO IN MY ESSAY? 48
HOW SHOULD I FORMAT MY REFERENCE LIST? 49
1. Your reference list should start with the word “References” (without quotation marks) centered at the top of the page. This word should not be underlined, bolded, or written with capital letters. It should look exactly like this: 49
2. References should be listed in alphabetical order by whatever appears first in each entry. 49
3. Your references should be formatted the same as the rest of your paper with 1-inch margins. 49
4. Your references should be double spaced all the way through. This means that each line of each entry should be double spaced, not just between entries. 49
5. Although APA does not have a specific required font, fonts that are difficult to read should be avoided. APA and most instructors recommend using 12-point Times New Roman. 49
6. Your references should be formatted with a hanging indentation set to 0.5 inches (see Chapter 6 to learn how to set a hanging indentation). 49
HOW SHOULD I FORMAT EACH REFERENCE? 49
1. Author(s) name(s) in the order they appear in the source [See the note below] 50
2. Publication date 50
3. Title of the source 50
4. Title of the book/journal/website the source comes from 50
5. Volume and issue number (usually only journals, magazines & newspapers)
6. Page numbers (except for some online sources) 50
7. DOI number for an academic journal source 50
8. URL for a website source 50
Examples 51
Academic Journal Articles 51
Books 53
Book Chapters 55
Miscellaneous Online Sources 56
Miscellaneous Other Sources 58
6 60
Formatting 60
Font and Font Size 60
Figure 6.1. Example of a home menu bar. 61
Figure 6.2. Where to choose the font and appropriate size. 61
LINE SPACING 61
Figure 6.3. Example button to change line spacing. 61
Figure 6.4. Example of line space drop box menu. 61
MARGINS 62
Figure 6.5. Sample “layout” button. 62
Figure 6.6. Margins setting in inches. 62
Figure 6.7. Margins setting in centimeters. 62
RUNNING HEAD 63
Figure 6.8. Activating the header. 63
Figure 6.9. Example of an activated header area. 63
Figure 6.10. Example of a running header in the header. 64
Figure 6.11. How to check word/character count. 64
Figure 6.12. Example of a header and footer button. 65
Figure 6.13. Mac version of the Options menu for changing the header and footer. 65
Figure 6.14. Windows version of the Options menu for changing the header and footer. 65
Figure 6.15. Removing “Running head:” from 2nd page. 65
Figure 6.16. “Running head:” removed from header on 2nd page and beyond. 66
Figure 6.17. How the title page (first page) of the paper should look. 66
Figure 6.18. How pages 2 to the end of the document should look. 66
SECTION TITLES AND HEADING TITLES 66
SECTION TITLES 67
HEADING TITLES 68
Table 6.1. How to Format Headings Based on Level 68
2 68
BULLETS AND LISTS 69
Figure 6.19. Sample “bullet” button. 69
INSERTING A PAGE BREAK 70
Figure 6.20. Where to find the “Page Break” button. 70
Figure 6.21. The “editing marks” button. 71
Figure 6.22. Sample of what a page with the editing marks revealed. 71
Figure 6.23. Sample of a page with a “Page Break” inserted. 71
PUTTING DIAGRAMS, TABLES, AND GRAPHS INLINE 72
Figure 6.24. Sample “picture.” 72
Figure 6.25. Where to find the “Wrap Text” option in the image “Format” menu. 72
Figure 6.26. Finding the “Wrap Text” feature through the “Arrange” button. 73
Figure 6.27. Setting image to be in line with the text. 73
Figure 6.28. Example of image set to “through” text. 74
Figure 6.29. Example of an image set to “square.” 74
Indents 74
Figure 6.30. Sample “indent” buttons. 75
Figure 6.31. Accessing the menu for formatting the paragraph. 76
Figure 6.32. Sample paragraph formatting options. 76
Figure 6.33. Sample hanging indentation settings. 77
Figure 6.34. Sample of references with hanging indentation. 78
NOTE 78
Back Cover 80

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.2.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• ISBN-10: 1-68123-775-X / 168123775X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68123-775-6 / 9781681237756