Library Education Worksheet 5: APA Citation Style

Complete this worksheet online. Your responses will be evaluated by a librarian.

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1. Prepare a short list of References (3 sources) in APA citation style, omitting italics in the title. (You can however press enter at the end of the first line and use the space bar to create a hanging indent.)

2. Model an "in text" reference to one of your sources in one sentence that might appear in your review of the literature. For example:
Wells (2006) suggests that more research is necessary to determine if End of Grade testing results in higher GPA..

3. Reflecting on your database searches, do you think your strategy was effective? How would you change your search strategy or your topic sentence to obtain different results?