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APA

In-Text Citation

Worksheets

Contents:

1. Generating Signal Phrases

2. Selecting Material to Cite

3. Creating Paraphrased Citations

4. Correcting Citations: Punctuation

5. Correcting Citations: Correct or Incorrect?

6. Creating In-Text Citations

7. Practicing Each Element: Generating Signal Phrases, Selecting Material to Cite, Creating Direct

Quotations

 Correcting Citations: Punctuation ANSWER KEY

 Correcting Citations: Correct or Incorrect? ANSWER KEY

APA

IN-TEXT CITATION

WORKSHEETS

APA In-Text Citation Practice | Selecting Material to Cite Name: |

Source: “It’s Absurd to Claim That Smarter Babies Sleep Poorly at Night” by Melinda Wenner Moyer | Slate | 2019 (Excerpts)

A new parenting claim made the rounds on social media this week, and it was a doozy. “Smarter Babies Need Less Sleep and Wake Up Through the Night, Claim Experts,” touts the headline of a piece published by the Australian website Healthy Mummy. The piece, based on a 2015 BuzzFeed article, has now been shared 363,000 times on social media. On Thursday, the Irish Independent jumped onboard with a similar piece titled “Why It’s Actually a Good Thing if Your Baby Doesn’t Sleep Through the Night.”

The arguments these articles make, and the assumptions they are based on, are so badly flawed, I almost don’t know where to begin.

A number of animal studies support the notion that sleep promotes memory, learning, and improved cognition, too: Animals deprived of sleep during infancy, for instance, wind up with smaller cerebral cortices as adults.

No doubt, there’s an alluring message here for exhausted parents: that your suffering may ultimately produce a superior child, and since this is all seemingly beyond your control, you should surrender and go with the flow—never mind how little sleep you get.

Example citation:

 In “It’s Absurd to Claim That Smarter Babies Sleep Poorly at Night,” Melinda Wenner Moyer (2019) offers a correction to recent articles on the connection between infant intelligence and sleep, saying the articles are “badly flawed.”

Exercise: For each item, select material from the provided text (above) to fill in the blank and complete the citation. Choose enough material to finish the sentence. Use only as much of the blank space as needed.

1. Moyer (2019), a science-based parenting columnist, cites studies on animal sleep which show that “____________

_____________________________________________________________________________________.”

2. Moyer (2019) understands the appeal of the message being repeated online in the articles. She

acknowledges that

“__________________________________________________________________________________ .”

When quoting research sources, we want to

carefully select material to include in our citations.

Conventions for Selecting Material:

 You can choose how much or how little to include in your quotation.  You don’t have to cite entire sentences. You can cite a single-word if that is what your paper needs.  You can cite multiple sentences also, but there are special rules for quotations of four lines or more (that’s when block quotation format is applied).  If you change anything within the quotation, place the change in brackets. But be very sparing in your use of this strategy. The best way to go is to adjust your set-up material so that the quoted material doesn’t need to be altered.  Only use ellipsis if you remove material from the middle of a quote. When you leave off the beginning or end of a sentence that appears in your direct quotation, you do not need to indicate that with ellipsis.

APA In-Text Citation Practice | Creating Paraphrased Citations Name: |

Source : “Why 1984 Isn't Banned in China” by Amy Hawkins & Jeffry Wasserstrom | The Atlantic | 2019

Censors have banned books simply for containing a positive or even neutral portrayal of the Dalai Lama. The government disallows the publication of any work by Liu Xiaobo, the determined critic of the Communist Party who in 2017 became the first Nobel Peace Prize winner since Nazi times to die in prison. Again, for a time last year Chinese citizens could not type “nineteen,” “eighty,” and “four” in sequence—but they could, and still can, buy a copy of 1984 , the most famous novel on authoritarianism ever written. Prefer Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World? They can buy that text, too, just as easily, although its title also joined the taboo list last winter.

Western commentators often give the impression that Chinese censorship is more comprehensive than it really is due, in part, to a veritable obsession with the government’s handling of the so-called “three Ts” of Taiwan, Tibet, and Tiananmen. A 2013 article in The New York Review of Books states, for example, that “to this day Tiananmen is one of the neuralgic words forbidden—not always successfully—on China’s Internet.” Any book, article, or social media post that so much as mentions these words, the conventional wisdom holds, is liable to disappear.

These patterns may suggest that censors take a rather dim view of their audiences’ abilities—that they believe Chinese citizens are unable to draw a connection between the political situation Orwell described and the nature of their government (unless prompted to do so by a rabble-rouser on the internet). More likely, they’re motivated by elitism, or classism. Analogously, in the United States the MPAA slaps movies with an R rating if they depict nudity, but there’s no warning system for museums that display nude sculptures. The assumption is not that Chinese people can’t figure out the meaning of 1984 , but that the small number of people who will bother to read it won’t pose much of a threat.

Example: A recent article in The Atlantic suggests that Chinese government censorship policies are shaped by a class- oriented belief that the Chinese citizens will seek out books like Orwell’s 1984 will not be inspired to challenge the status quo (Hawkins & Wasserstrom, 2019).

Note: This citation is paraphrasing the point made in the last paragraph of the excerpt.

Exercise: Using the provided text (above), create one paraphrased citation. (Your response should each be one full sentence.)

1. ______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

What needs to be cited vs. What needs to be quoted

Any time you use material from an outside source in your essay, you need to cite the source where the material came from. Always give credit to author(s) of that source. This is true if you are referencing a specific fact, statistic or finding and it is also true if you are referencing an idea, insight or concept. Always cite your sources.

Whenever you borrow language – even just a three-word turn of phrase – you need to place that language in quotation marks. Borrowed language must be quoted language when it appears in your paper. Citing, however, does not always mean quoting. For a variety of reasons, paraphrasing is sometimes the best way to incorporate material from outside sources in your own essay.

What does it mean to paraphrase, exactly?

Paraphrasing means rendering someone else’s ideas in your own words. This requires more than using a thesaurus though. In fact, replacing a few terms with synonyms is not what we want to do when we paraphrase. (This method is actually plagiarism.) Paraphrasing requires that we extract the idea from a research source and find a new way to present it. We need to use original language – a whole new sentence.

Often, this will allow us to explain the idea in fewer words than the original text. (If there is no way to condense the idea into fewer words, we may opt to quote the original text directly.)

APA In-Text Citation Practice | Correct or Incorrect? Name: |

Mark each of the following items as a C (correct) or I (incorrect) according to APA guidelines.

Items 1-5 come from a source without page numbers in the original.

1. _____ Writing for Psychology Today , Jeffrey Davis suggests that going for a walk is “one of the greatest tools for giving you a creative advantage at the office or studio.”
2. _____ Reports suggest that “Sitting is harmful to our overall health.”
3. _____ Davis (2018) refers to a study conducted by the National Activity Pattern Survey. 87% of American’s time every day is spent indoors.
4. _____ The writer goes on to point out that “aerobic workouts […] can also stimulate the Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), which can produce new brain cells, improve brain plasticity, and regulate energy metabolism and prevent exhaustion”(Davis, 2019).
5. _____ Walking is work, but it’s work that’s good for the brain – and for creativity. Davis (2019) explains, “Although our brains work harder to process in different environments, walking outside forces our brains to churn out new ideas every time we take in new sights, new sounds, new smells, new flavors.”

Items 6-10 are cited from a source with page numbers in the original text.

6. _____ In “A Scientifically Proven Trick for Remembering Pretty Much Anything” Brittney Wong (2019) writes that drawing reminders to yourself is “more effective than writing and rewriting notes, visualization exercises and passively looking at images” (p. 43).
7. _____ Wong (2019) explains the practical need for tools to enhance memory. “As people age, the ability to retain new information slips because of the deterioration of critical brain structures involved in memory, including the hippocampus and frontal lobes.(p. 44)”
8. _____ “But drawing calls upon regions of the brain involved in visual perceptual processing ― regions that show relatively less deterioration than areas involved in processing verbal information” (Wong).
9. _____ Wong (2019, p. 44) concludes the article that the common belief in the value of taking notes and later re- copying them as a study habit for students should be adjusted to acknowledge the power of drawing as the most efficient and effective way to “get test information to stick.”
10. _____ Wong cites researcher Melissa Meade in her article. “Meade said she thinks that drawing leads to better memory compared with other study techniques because it incorporates multiple ways of representing the information — visual, spatial, verbal, semantic and motoric.” (p. 45).

APA In-Text Citation Practice |Creating in-Text Citations Name: |

Using the text and source information provided, create two APA in-text citations. Your citations can be direct quotations or paraphrased citations.

Note: This section of the text comes from Page 5 of the excerpted document.

Title: “Which subpopulations are most likely to watch TV?”

Not everyone watches TV on a given day, but most people do. Of the population ages 15 and older, 79.2 percent spent

some time watching TV on a given day in the period from 2013–17. Chart 2 shows some variation among subpopulations in their likelihood of watching TV; however, the high rates across all groups—including age, employment status, parental

status, and gender—is particularly notable. The group with the lowest percentage of people watching TV per day is 15 to 19 year olds with 72.6 percent.

The high rates of TV watching are supported by data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration showing that even with the number of televisions in U.S. homes declining, more than 97 percent of households used a TV in 2015, with an

average of 2.3 TVs used per household.^5 With televisions present in nearly all U.S. households, TV watching is a leisure activity that is easily accessible to the vast majority of the population. Also, with TV programs, videos, and movies

accessible from such devices as tablets and computers, televisions are no longer needed for people to engage in TV

watching as defined by the ATUS.

Those ages 65 and older were the most likely to watch TV—89.2 percent did so on a given day in the 2013–17 period.

This group also had more leisure and sports time overall than the other populations shown in chart 2, averaging 7 hours 8 minutes per day. Only about 20 percent of those ages 65 and older were employed, and less than 1 percent of them were

parents of children under age 18, so their time was largely free of the demands of work and childcare.

Source: Rachel Krantz-Kent, “Television, capturing America's attention at prime time and beyond.” By Racheck Krantz- Kent Beyond the Numbers: Special Studies & Research , vol. 7, no. 14 (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, September 2018).

APA In-Text Citation Practice |Punctuating Citations Name : KEY |

Each of the following in-text citations presents a mistake in punctuation placement. (This could be comma placement, period placement, quotation placement, or placement of parenthesis.)

Circle the punctuation mistake on your paper and, in the space provided, briefly explain how to fix the mistake.

1. A recent report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that over the last five years “the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population ages 15 and older spent an average of 2 hours 46 minutes per day watching TV.” (Krantz-Kent, 2018, p. 2)

Move the period so that it appears after the parenthesis.

2. Rachel Krantz-Kent (2018), a branch chief at the BLS, points out that “with TV programs, videos, and movies accessible from such devices as tablets and computers, televisions are no longer needed for people to engage in TV watching (p. 5).”

Move the quotation marks so that they appear before the parenthesis.

3. In The Atlantic , Joe Pinsker (2019) reports, “Parents tend to watch less TV than nonparents do.” (“America Has a Free Time Gender Gap”)

Move the period so that it appears after the parenthesis.

4. Pinsker (2019) goes on to say that, “generally speaking, the older, less educated, or less affluent people are, the more TV they’re likely to watch.”

Eliminate the comma after THAT.

5. Pinsker (2019) cites studies on the subject, but offers his own explanation for part of the trend, suggesting “many moms are made to feel guilty for taking time for themselves”.

Move the period so that it appears inside the quotation marks.

6. In “When Did TV Watching Peak” Alexis C. Madrigal (2017) reports that, “television viewing didn’t peak until 2009-2010, when the average American household watched 8 hours and 55 minutes of TV per day”.

Eliminate the comma after THAT.

APA In-Text Citation Practice | Correct or Incorrect? Name: KEY |

Mark each of the following items as a C (correct) or I (incorrect) according to APA guidelines.

Items 1-5 come from a source without page numbers in the original.

1. I Writing for Psychology Today , Jeffrey Davis suggests that going for a walk is “one of the greatest tools for giving you a creative advantage at the office or studio.”
2. __ I__ Reports suggest that “Sitting is harmful to our overall health.”
3. __I __ Davis (2018) refers to a study conducted by the National Activity Pattern Survey. 87% of American’s time every day is spent indoors.
4. ___C __ The writer goes on to point out that “aerobic workouts […] can also stimulate the Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), which can produce new brain cells, improve brain plasticity, and regulate energy metabolism and prevent exhaustion”(Davis, 2019).
5. __ C__ Walking is work, but it’s work that’s good for the brain – and for creativity. Davis (2019) explains, “Although our brains work harder to process in different environments, walking outside forces our brains to churn out new ideas every time we take in new sights, new sounds, new smells, new flavors.”

Items 6-10 are cited from a source with page numbers in the original text.

6. __C __ In “A Scientifically Proven Trick for Remembering Pretty Much Anything” Brittney Wong (2019) writes that drawing reminders to yourself is “more effective than writing and rewriting notes, visualization exercises and passively looking at images” (p. 43).
7. __ I __ Wong (2019) explains the practical need for tools to enhance memory. “As people age, the ability to retain new information slips because of the deterioration of critical brain structures involved in memory, including the hippocampus and frontal lobes. (p. 44)”
8. __ I __ “But drawing calls upon regions of the brain involved in visual perceptual processing ― regions that show relatively less deterioration than areas involved in processing verbal information” (Wong).
9. __ I __ Wong (2019, p. 44) concludes the article that the common belief in the value of taking notes and later re-copying them as a study habit for students should be adjusted to acknowledge the power of drawing as the most efficient and effective way to “get test information to stick.”
10. __ I __ Wong cites researcher Melissa Meade in her article. “Meade said she thinks that drawing leads to better memory compared with other study techniques because it incorporates multiple ways of representing the information — visual, spatial, verbal, semantic and motoric.” (p. 45).