{"id":25632,"date":"2020-11-13T19:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T19:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/?p=25632"},"modified":"2022-05-09T20:34:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:34:10","slug":"apa-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/2020\/11\/13\/apa-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"APA Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written by Peter Sands<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey Auggies, as many of you are aware, the department uses and requires the American Psychological Association (APA) style for assignments. Being that APA is the one of the most common guidelines for written work within the academic world, we thought it would be helpful to provide students with some APA resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Proper utilization of APA Style is an important skill to have; it helps make your writing more clear, while also maintaining transparency about your source material. For those of you who are more familiar with APA Style, the American Psychological Association recently updated their style guidelines from the 6th to 7th edition, so this might be a useful refresher.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Helpful Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For a thorough overview of the style and citation resources check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apastyle.apa.org\">American Psychological Association Website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for more concise documents focused on specific elements of APA the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apastyle.apa.org\/instructional-aids\/reference-guide.pdf\">American Psychological Association Instructional Aids\/Guides<\/a>\u00a0provides reference documents, sample papers and more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/owl\/research_and_citation\/apa_style\/apa_formatting_and_style_guide\/in_text_citations_the_basics.html\">Purdue OWL In-Text Citation Basics<\/a>\u00a0is another great resource for learning the fundamentals how to cite sources within your text, such as how to cite multiple authors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/owl.purdue.edu\/owl\/research_and_citation\/apa_style\/apa_formatting_and_style_guide\/general_format.html\">Purdue OWL Formatting and Style Guidelines<\/a>\u00a0provides a comprehensive overview of the foundational principles of APA Style and more. Margins, font, and major paper sections are all explained here.<\/p>\n<p>And lastly, here is some sound advice advice regarding APA Basics from the University of Southern California Libraries. This page is packed with helpful resources, examples and advice regarding citations and formatting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Peter Sands Hey Auggies, as many of you are aware, the department uses and requires the American Psychological &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,12,88],"tags":[123,122,43,124],"class_list":["post-25632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication-studies","category-film","category-new-media","category-students","tag-apa-citation","tag-apa-style","tag-research","tag-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25632"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25782,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25632\/revisions\/25782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/communication\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}