Rapid Academic Writing
Cover
Licensing Information
Contributing Authors
1. Let's Get Writing
1.1. The 5 C Guidelines
1.2. How to Write Articles Quickly and Expertly
2. Critical Thinking
2.1. Critical Thinking in the Classroom
2.2. Necessary and Sufficient Conditions
2.3. Good Logic
3. APA for Novices
3.1. Hoops and Barriers
3.2. Crafts and Puzzles
3.3. The Papers Trail
3.4. The Fine Art of Sentencing
3.5. Hurdles
3.6. Small Stressors
4. Literature Reviews
4.1. Introduction to Literature Reviews
4.2. What is a Literature Review?
4.3. How to Get Started
4.4. Where to Find the Literature
4.5. Evaluating Sources
4.6. Documenting Sources
4.7. Synthesizing Sources
4.8. Writing the Literature Review
4.9. Concluding Thoughts on Literature Reviews
Technical Tutorials
Constructing an Annotated Bibliography with Zotero
Extracting Resource Metadata from a Citation List with AnyStyle.io
Exporting Zotero to a Spreadsheet
Appendices
APA 7 Job Aid
Index of Topics
3

APA for Novices

The chapters in this section were originally written by Sharon Black and were published by the BYU McKay School of Education [https://edtechbooks.org/-hnb]. Their purpose was to help students to quickly learn and navigate the intricacies of writing and formatting using American Psychological Association (APA) guidelines in their theses and dissertations.

Please note that these chapters are not openly licensed. So all rights are reserved by the copyright holder. The original source may be found and cited as follows:

Black, S. (n.d.). APA for novices: A struggling student's guide to theses, dissertations, and advanced course papers. David O. McKay School of Education. Retrieved from https://edtechbooks.org/apa

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CC BY: This work is released under a CC BY license, which means that you are free to do with it as you please as long as you properly attribute it.

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