Activity: APA Research Reports — What Goes Where?
This activity asks students to reconstruct an APA style research report by logically organizing individual paragraphs from a published research article. Click here for a link to the assignment.
APA Introduction
Activity: Peer Review of an APA Introduction Section
This activity provides students with guidance as they conduct a peer review of a fellow student’s APA introduction. Click here for a link to the assignment
Write with Purpose: What Do You Want Your Paragraph To Do?
Students often have the greatest anxiety about writing the Introduction and Discussion sections of an APA style paper. Part of the problem is that they struggle with writing properly constructed paragraphs. This guide from the University of Newcastle not only describes several types of paragraphs, but outlines what the topic, supporting, and concluding sentences should …
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Activity: The Power of Paraphrasing
This activity provides students with several examples of paraphrasing from a single passage from an article, then gives them the opportunity to practice. Click here for a link to the assignment.
Creating an Outline for an APA Style Introduction
This resource provides a template to help students plan and organize the structure of an APA style Introduction. It includes an example for students to reference Please click here for the file.
Practice Creating an Outline for an APA Style Introduction Based on Notes
This resource helps students practice the process of outlining an APA style Introduction based on notes taken on research articles. It provides note sheets from 8 research articles and a template to help students plan and organize the structure of an APA style Introduction. Please click here for the file.
Student Guide to SPSS and APA Style Writing (v.12.0)
This guide (created by Gary Lewandowski; Twitter: @LewandowskiPhD) is a free resource that can substitute for the APA Manual and SPSS guides. The Student Guide leads students through data analysis in SPSS with step-by-step instructions and screenshots for setting up the analyses and interpreting the output. For each analysis, students also see an example SPSS …
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APA Style (7th Edition): Annotated Sample Papers (Professional & Student)
One of the most helpful resources instructors can provide for students is a solid example. To facilitate learning APA Style, the APA has provided several sample papers for both professional and student formats. Here are two annotated examples: Professional Paper – Annotated Version (Sample Only Version) Student Paper – Annotated Version (Sample Only Version)
APA Style (7th Edition): Sample Notated Paper
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) is a premier source for all types of resources for teaching writing, including APA style (Here is a link to all of their APA materials). But perhaps the most useful resource is their sample research report with abundant notations highlighting key points for students. Not only that, but they …
APA Style: Paraphrasing Assignment/Practice
This practice/assignment provides students with several passages from original sources, then two paraphrased versions. Students must identify good/bad paraphrasing and justify their responses. Click here for a link to the assignment.
Connected Papers: A Visual Tool for Writing Literature Reviews
From the website: “Enter a typical paper and we’ll build you a graph of similar papers in the field. Explore and build more graphs for interesting papers that you find – soon you’ll have a real, visual understanding of the trends, popular works and dynamics of the field you’re interested in. “ In the above example, …
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