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University of Phoenix Material APA and Center for Writing Excellence Scavenger Hunt For each of the questions below you should look at both The Center for Writing Excellence and your hardcopy text: American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th Ed.) Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Submit your responses to the following APA & C.W.E. questions: 1. If more than one author is listed, must all authors be listed in the citation every time' No, but at the end of each citation. 2. Is the author’s full name used in the References page entry' The author’s full name is not used. 3. If no year is listed for an in-text citation, what should be listed' If a work has no publication date, site in text the authors name followed by comma and N.D. for no date. 4. What is the minimum information needed for an in-text citation' Last name of the author and year of publicaton 5. What abbreviations are used before the page (if listed) in an in-text citation' Paragraph number, abbreviation para. If the paragraph or page numbers are not visible, cite the heading and the number of the paragraph and direct the reader to the location of the material. 6. What is used for the author’s name in the in-text citation if the article’s author is not listed as “anonymous” or at all' Cite in the text 7. On the References page, what words of an article or book title are capitalized' The first word of the article or book is capitalized. 8. What U.S. cities do not require a state when listed on the References page' Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco 9. Are quotation marks used for titles of articles in the sources listed on the References page' No 10. How is the state abbreviated for the publisher’s location on the References page' Use the official two-letter U.S. postal service abbreviations listed in table 41 11. Are any sources listed in the References page underlined and italicized' No 12. What pages of your text (or "your individual paper" [as referred to in Assignments section of syllabus]) are numbered in APA formatting' Each page after the cover sheet 13. If the title of your essay is “The Paragraph and You: A Study of Organization,” in how many places of the document would this be listed' Every page 14. How far from the top of the page is the header and page number' The header is five spaces to the left of the page number. The page number is five spaces from the text. 15. What is the suggested length of an abstract' The suggested length of an abstract is 120 words. 16. What point size is used for the font in APA' 12 17. When is the only time single spacing is used in APA' No single spacing throughout the whole paper. 18. Are there any extra spaces between paragraphs of an APA paper' All lines are double spaced throughout the whole paper. 19. How are personal interviews or e-mails listed when cited in a paper' Give initials cite personal communication in text only. 20. Should directions for retrieving an article in an electronic database be listed in the reference' Cite the database not the URL. The name if the database is sufficient no URL address is needed 21. If a reference is a custom edition, what additional information is needed for the reference' The edition number Submit your responses to the following questions Center for Writing Excellence questions: 22. How do you get to the Center for Writing Excellence' Click services and the center for writing excellence. 23. Here’s something fun—go to the list of common English errors and indicate what the difference is between ‘flaunt’ and ‘flout’. Flaunt is to show off and flout has more negative connotation it means to treat with content some rule or standard. 24. Check out the section that provides tips on Microsoft® software and indicate how you paginate a Word® document. Go to view select header and footer and click on insert page number. 25. How do you add a button to your Microsoft® Office® Toolbar' Tool, menu, customize, make sure button is visible, add button and close. 26. How do you submit a paper to the Center for Writing Excellence' Click on center For writing Excellence and submit paper. 27. What leeway do you need if your paper is due next class by using Write Point or Tutor Review' Write point will be a better choice to review your paper and get back on time. 28. What are the three major databases that you can access at the University of Phoenix’s Online Library' EbscoHost, Info Trac One File, Proquest 29. How can you obtain assistance in looking for something in the Online Library collection' Go to library and ask a librarian. 30. What is plagiarism' The act of taking of one’s writing and claiming it as your own. 31. When you are citing a directly quoted, word-for-word source in a paper using the APA format, do you use quotation marks' Yes. 32. Describe the spacing after punctuation the University of Phoenix requires in written assignments. APA Style only one spacing is used after periods, commas, colons, and semicolons 33. Which fonts are acceptable for use for assignments submitted at the University of Phoenix' Times New Roman and Courier New 34. If you are stumped by a grammar question and cannot find the answer in the University of Phoenix’s style guide, where can you go to get an answer' Ask a librarian or Google the question on the internet