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Sep 07, 2024
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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WR 102 APA Style Source Integration and Citation Lecture Hours: 1 Credits: 1
Covers APA style paper format, clear source integration, and citation as a supplement to upper level college writing and writing intensive courses requiring research papers.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 ; or completion of WR 090 (or higher), with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor. Student Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the goals of formal citation and documentation .
- Use a writer’s handbook to locate APA paper format as well as appropriate in-text and works cited citation models.
- Identify when and where citations are needed in-text .
- Identify commonly required information for a variety of APA in-text citations.
- Identify and locate the required references information for different types of sources (print, electronic and online).
- Apply principles of APA style to properly signal source use as well as format in-text citations and references entries.
- Format an APA style paper.
- Use a variety of methods to clearly and grammatically integrate sources (paraphrase, summary, quotations).
- Identify appropriate versus inappropriate summary and paraphrase.
- Use technology critically and effectively to acknowledge sources and format paper.
Content Outline
- Citation in Academic and Scholarly Discourse
- Citation as a language system with standardized patterns to facilitate participation in academic and scholarly conversations
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Building ethos
- Handbook Use
- Difference between general handbook and the full citation guides
- Table of contents to locate citation and paper format models
- Structure and organization of the citation models
- Handbook index
- In-text Citations
- Information requiring citations (paraphrase, summary, quotations)
- Placement of in-text citations
- Contents within and format of in-text citations
- Relationship between in-text citations and works cited
- In-text citation of illustrations, charts and pictures
- Handbook in-text citation models
- Integrating and Blending Sources
- Signal phrases and verb tense
- Quotations
- Quotation marks (placement and double versus single)
- Punctuation (commas and colons)
- Embedding quotations
- Brackets
- Ellipses
- Blocking
- Secondhand quotations
- Paraphrase and summary
- Accuracy
- Appropriate versus inappropriate
- Signaling boundaries and citing
- Placement of illustrations and visuals
- References
- Basic citation information requirements for variety of print, online, and visual source types
- Location of citation information within library database entries, original print and online sources
- Organization and format of information in common reference entries
- Handbook reference models
- Opensource materials
- Electronic and Online Citation Tools
- Microsoft Word
- Library databases
- Internet citation tools
- Accuracy of citation tools
- Editing Citations and References
- Color coding of source use in drafts
- Search and find function to double check in-text citations against works cited citations
- Handbook citation and reference model comparison
- Paper Format
- Organization and appearance of APA style paper (Title and first page, running head, placement and organization of references page, etc.)
- Using word-processing software to format
- Title and First page
- Headers
- Font
- Paragraph indents
- Page breaks
- Insert (graphics and visual)
- Hanging indents
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