blog #6….. APA

BLOG # 6

APA is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. My major is in this category, Medicine. My work should be; typed, double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5″ x 11″) with 1″ margins on all sides. You should use 10-12 pt. Times New Roman font or a similar font.

 A page header at the top of every page. To create a page header, insert page numbers flush right. Then type “TITLE OF YOUR PAPER” in the header flush left.

There should be 4 sections,

• Title page
• Abstract
• Main body
• Reference

Title- your title be no more than 12 words in length and that it should not contain abbreviations or words that serve no purpose. Beneath the title, type the author’s name: first name, middle initial(s), and last name. Do not use titles (Dr.) or degrees (Ph.D.).

Abstract – Begin a new page. Your abstract page should already include the page header. On the first line of the abstract page, center the word “Abstract” (no bold, formatting, italics, underlining, or quotation marks).

Main body-  review on your topic. It should be flowing that is, stick to the main point of the topic.

Reference-  Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work. If you have more than one article by the same author, single-author references or multiple-author references with the exact same authors in the exact same order are listed in order by the year of publication, starting with the earliest.

Work cited:

http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/academic/mla_style.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/3/

blog 7 Evaluating Sources of Information

why is evaluating sources of information necessary?Becoming proficient at selecting sources will require experience, of course, but even a beginning researcher can take a few minutes to ask, “What source or what kind of source would be the most credible for providing information in this particular case?” Which sources are likely to be fair, objective, lacking hidden motives, showing quality control? It is important to keep these considerations in mind, so that you will not simply take the opinion of the first source or two you can locate. By thinking about these issues while searching, you will be able to identify suspicious or questionable sources more readily.

DOCUMENT: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/libinst/infolit/evaluate.html

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:  includes a summary and/or evaluation of each of the sources. Depending on your project or the assignment, your annotations may do one or more of the following:SUMMARY,ACCESS,REFLECT.

REFERENCE:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/

Writing an annotated bibliography is excellent preparation for a research project. Just collecting sources for a bibliography is useful, but when you have to write annotations for each source, you’re forced to read each source more carefully.By reading and responding to a variety of sources on a topic, you’ll start to see what the issues are, what people are arguing about, and you’ll then be able to develop your own point of view.