APA Format Training
Delivery Options
- Customized Onsite Training (1 day): Request a Proposal
Class Description
Class Overview
This APA formatting training class provides the guidelines to format reports, essays, and research documents according to the standards set by the American Psychological Association (APA). You will learn techniques for setting proper margins and spacing, headers and title pages, and how to cite and list research sources correctly both in the text of the document and on the reference page. APA also covers grammar, spelling and font size and type, creating a uniformity in the final documents that is recognized by publishers throughout the industry.
Class Goals
- Learn to create properly spaced documents with correct margins and font style and size.
- Learn to insert headers with auto pagination on all pages.
- Learn to create a properly formatted cover page.
- Learn to cite valid research sources in the body of the document, tying those citations to the correctly formatted source listed on the reference page.
- Learn to edit for grammar and spelling errors.
Class Outline
- APA Basics
- Margins
- Font and Line Spacing
- Header and Title Page
- Research and writing
- Executive Summary
- Validating sources
- Gathering information for citations/reference list
- In Text Citations
- Citing print sources
- Citing online sources
- Citing personal interview sources
- Reference Page
- Formatting Source List
- Online
- Organizing Source List
- Reference list vs. annotated bibliography
- Formatting Source List
- Editing
- Edit for grammar errors
- Edit for spelling errors
- Review for organization
- Final Review
- Purpose for citations
- Purpose of reference list
- Purpose of format consistency
Class Materials
Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Technical Requirements
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- Onsite and Instructor-led Online course technical requirements and setup instructions.
- WebEx system requirements for Instructor-led Online delivery option.
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