Citation Situations
Understanding APA Style’s author-date citation system is easy enough, right? But anyone who conducts research knows that citing sources is not always so straight forward. Sometimes a source has more than one author, and...
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published November 6, 2020 · Last modified December 21, 2020
Understanding APA Style’s author-date citation system is easy enough, right? But anyone who conducts research knows that citing sources is not always so straight forward. Sometimes a source has more than one author, and...
Academic Writing / APA 7th Ed / Blogcast
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published October 30, 2020 · Last modified November 5, 2020
In case you’re wondering what a signal phrase is, let me start there. All a signal phrase is is some introductory text that precedes (and sometimes splits or follows) information that comes from a...
Academic Writing / APA 7th Ed / Blogcast
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published September 25, 2020 · Last modified October 7, 2020
We’ve long known that using gender-neutral language (aka: gender-inclusive language or non-sexist language) is the basic expectation in everyday communication–written or not. Long gone are the days when masculine pronouns were used by default...
Academic Writing / APA 7th Ed / Blogcast
by Purdue Global Academic Success Center and Writing Center · Published August 14, 2020 · Last modified October 14, 2020
The singular they?! Yes, the singular “they,” as in Everyone learns “their” ABCs or What one doesn’t know can’t hurt “them.” While the singular “they” has been a topic of much discussion lately, the...