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APA Style: Basics

This guide is intended to help you cite sources in APA style, avoid plagiarism, learn what APA style is and includes, find examples of APA style, lead you to campus resources that can help you cite sources in APA, and more.

APA Style


This guide is intended to help you cite sources in APA style, avoid plagiarism, learn what APA style is and includes, find examples  of APA style, lead you to campus resources that can help you cite sources in APA, and more.

Understanding the “why” and the “how” of citing sources is critical to the ethical and information literate use of resources. Information literate students understand that scholarship is a conversation and that they demonstrate their participation in that conversation when they cite the contributing work of others in their own information productionInformation literate students understand that information has value, and that proper attribution and citation is necessary to give credit to the original ideas of others.

Navigate through this guide by using the tabs to the left and visit the Citing Your Sources guide for more information.


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Academic Writer, from the American Psychological Association, is designed to support the development of long-lasting writing skills. Developed by the creators of APA Style®, this powerful resource guides users who have questions about how to conduct research, structure their papers, and format what they write. Academic Writer’s self-paced learning modules, reference building tools, and guided writing center support libraries and writing centers to facilitate academic success by training students to build a strong writing foundation.

Learners can create an account with their SNHU email, or use their existing SNHU APA account, to save their work.


 

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