APA Assignment Essay

Running head: LESSONS LEARNED 1

LESSONS LEARNED 2

Lessons Learned about Writing Style

Melissa Gerleman

Liberty University

Author Note

Melissa Gerleman, department of Psychology, Liberty University at Lynchburg Virginia.

Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to Melissa Gerleman, 4608 S Arden Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57103. E-mail: [email protected]

Lessons learned about writing style

Questions and Answers

1. If someone wanted to know where to find the official criteria for proper APA style, what source would be used? Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

2. How many levels of headings are identified in APA style? What would be the proper style for each of those headings? What is the purpose for using different levels of headings? This publication manual shows up to 5 levels of headings. Level 1 is centered, boldface, uppercase and lowercase. Level 2 is left-aligned, boldface, uppercase and lowercase. Level 3 is indented, boldface, lowercase heading with a period and starting the body after the period. Level 4 is indented, boldface, italicized, lowercase heading with a period and starting the body right after the period. Level 5 is indented, italicized, lowercase heading with a period and beginning the starting the body right after the period. Different levels of headings are used to tell readers the order of the contents within a paper.

3. What do the initials “DOI” represent? What is it, and why is it important? “DOI” stands for Digital Object Identifier. It is used to identify electronic documents and give the location on the internet (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2010). This is important because it means an author’s work can be found easily on the internet and readers have what they need right at their fingertips.

4. What is the web address for the off-campus access EZ Proxy login? https://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?pid=2955

5. What kinds of resources can you access through the Jerry Falwell Library? This library offers books, scholarly writings and peer reviewed, periodicals which include journals, newsletters, and magazines.

6. What is ILLIAD? Identify what the acronym means and explain reasons you would use this resource. ILLIAD is-- InterLibrary Loan internet accessible database (Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 2010). This would be used when requesting a book or article that cannot be found in the library. It means it is loaned from a different library.

References

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 2010 Publication Manual of the American Psychological AssociationPublication Manual of the American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (sixth ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 201603280658291063002825