PARAPHRASING MAIN POINTS 1 PARAGRAPH APA

"Learning a citation style like APA is important as it helps in academic and research activities such as retrieving documents for verification of data and building credibility as an author(s)." This point highlight one of the main idea of the authors as illustrating critical steps in attaining ethical scholarship in publications. Additionally, the quote stands out as provides interlink between scientific researching and presentation of findings in a scholarly manner (Van Note Chism & Weerakoon, 2012).

“…agreed norms and ethics in research and publishing need to be followed by authors to ensure the continuation of agreed practice, and therein lies another importance for learning citation styles.” Through this statement, the authors assert a critical point concerning the norms and ethics involved in research publication in light of giving due credit to the cited sources. Moreover, this point stands out in the manner in which it reinforces the need for adhering to ethical practices in authorship (Van Note Chism & Weerakoon, 2012).

“…studies argue that one of the reasons for poor citation style and inattention to accuracy is that these skills are not formally taught.” This serves as one of the main points as it out the major cause of the failure of the many authors to adhere to ethical authorship is apparently lack of education on the same. This is critical for the concerned stakeholders to ensure that learners and upcoming authors are taught about ethics in authorship. Therefore, there are intricate connections between the main points by the authors. That is, the critical steps, norms, and ethics in authorship should be taught well to promote ethical scholarship as far as publications are concerned (Van Note Chism & Weerakoon, 2012).

Reference

Van Note Chism, N., & Weerakoon, S. (2012). APA, Meet Google: Graduate Students' Approaches to Learning Citation Style. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 12(2), 27–38.