APA Style Review
Discussion Prompt 2:
With the rough draft of your nursing comparison paper due this week, a focused review of the basics of APA Style is important. Follow the instructions listed in the bullets below to direct you where to find specific APA guidelines. After you have reviewed the information, share something you learned with your peers. Also, attach examples from your rough draft that include both an in-text citation you used when you were paraphrasing and one you used when you were directly quoting. In addition, attach the reference page from your rough draft so that you can review each other's work and provide peer-to-peer feedback.
Go to the Student Resources tab on the top of your Blackboard page.
Click on Writing Resources, which will automatically land on the APA, Research Basics & Plagiarism area.
Click on the WCU Library APA Research Guides link, which will automatically land on the APA Help: Home area.
Review the APA Basics, In-Text Citation, Reference Citations, and Reference Page tabs.
***This is based on the rough draft that you are working on***
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APA Style Review
An academic paper should be consistent in the format chosen, order, and structure. APA is one of the formatting styles used in academic writing and stands for the American Psychological Association. The current edition of APA is seventh. APA formatting has several sections in the student paper: title page, abstract page, the main essay, and the reference page. The article's title appears on the first line in bold; then, two lines get skipped, followed by the name of student, institution, tutor, and date (Jun & Vandenhouten, 2020).
The word abstract is written on a new page bolded, and its first line flushed left. The abstract summarizes the content of the article without adding or commenting on the body contents. In APA style, the abstract should not exceed 250 words. The in-text citation in APA contains the autho...
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