APA Style Guide and Information Evaluation .ppt

APA Style Guide Especially for the Students of Keiser University Everglades University Southeastern Institute and Keiser Career College This guide was created to make using APA style formats for college papers easy for students. You will find that this guide provides short, easy to understand explanations, as well as authoritative charts from the APA style experts. For best results, please view this tutorial in full screen mode, or print each slide on a page.To print only the pages you want to keep, please make a note of the slide numbers of those pages, and enter these as page numbers in the Print dialog box. Students, please note that your instructor may have special instructions for you. If there is a conflict between these standard instructions and your teacher’s instructions, please follow your teacher’s instructions. Student Guide to APA Style and Evaluating InformationWhat is APA Style?The acronym “APA” stands for “American Psychological Association.” The APA is a professional membership organization, whose members work or have degrees in Psychology. Many years back, some leaders in this organization created a format for papers, so that they would be more readable. Their style caught on with non-psychologists, too. Eventually, APA Style became widely used, especially in colleges and universities.APA Style is a format for writing papers. This format describes proper margins (one inch at the top, bottom, left, and right sides), the font size (12 points), the font types (Times New Roman or Arial fonts only), and the spacing (papers are double-spaced). In addition, there are formats for the title page (see example) and for the list of sources used for a paper (called “citations” or “references” or “reference list”). This handout provides examples, so that you will know what the standards are for papers at the university level. In case you feel you need extra help, here are links to the Writing Labs or Writing Centers of other universities.