APA WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1 DUE IN 10HOURS

ABBREVIATED TITLE IN CAPITAL LETTERS 4

Full Title in Upper and Lower Case Letters

A Critiqué Submitted by

Name of Student

El Centro College

Psychology 2301, Section 53005, Spring 2012

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Running head: ABBREVIATED TITLE IN CAPITAL LETTERS 1

Abstract

The abstract is a summary of YOUR paper but for this assignment you will not be creating much content, so an abstract will not be required. Consequently, you will center the word Abstract as above (the content under the abstract is left justified) and leave this section blank. You will however notice that the header on this and the following pages does not include the words “Running head:” but do include the actual running head which is an abbreviated title that is 50 characters or less in length.

Note: It is advisable for you to use this template as much of the formatting has already been done. Also, when you submit your paper for grading, it will be automatically sent to SafeAssign which analyses your paper for similarities found in other papers that have been submitted, research articles and websites. It is highly functional and will most often catch plagiarism, so please do not plagiarize.

Full Title in Upper and Lower Case Letters

Summary

Read the author’s abstract as an example of how to write a summary of the article but do NOT copy their abstract. For the Summary section you will summarize the author’s article in your own words. If you paraphrase or quote text from the article, you MUST cite their work. If you do not, this constitutes plagiarism and can result in a zero for your grade and possibly lead to further disciplinary action from the dean. Simply read the article, and write a summary in 150-250 words. Here are a couple examples of how to use “in text citations:”

· Smith suggests that the average dog lives eight years (2011).

· It is believed that the average dog lives eight years (Smith, 2011). The author’s name was not listed in the sentence and needs to be added to the end.

· “A review of over 10,000 records has determined that the average dog’s lifespan covers eight years” (Smith, 2011, p154). Quotes should include quotation marks and the citation should identify the specific page(s) on which the quote was found.

In any case, the period for the sentence is after the citation. …lives eight years (2011). Not …lives eight years. (2011)

Beginning on this page you will use paragraph indentions but do not add additional lines between the headings but this entire paper (including the header) will be written in 12 point font, Arial or Times New Roman and double spaced.

Review

Comments

References

1st Author’s Last Name, Initial. & 2nd Author’s Last Name, Initial. (year published). Write the full title with this type of capitalization. Write the Full Journal Name in Italics in Regular Capitalization 12(1). pp. 120-151.

Note: Use a hanging indention as seen above (i.e. do not indent the first line of the reference but indent each line after for that reference). For the names, do not change the order of the name but also do not list first names, only initials. For the year, do not add season or month. The 12 in italics is the volume number and the 1 in parenthesis is the edition number which is not in italics. Lastly end with the page range of the article followed by a period.

Here is an example of an APA formatted article:

Copeland, R. D. (2017). A comprehensive study of different dog breeds. Journal of Canine Friends, 34(2), pp. 123-145.