Research Paper Reminders: AP 2022-2023

Paul Krugman vehemently wrote, "Inflation is not a problem!" (18).

People with graduate degrees make more money than people without graduate degrees.

Prose quotations over four lines require a block format.

The parenthetical citation should be placed after the end punctuation for a block quotation.

Most of the time a teacher is expecting to see AT LEAST!!! one source cited per body paragraph in a research paper.

If the assigned length of a research paper is 5 pages, 4.25 pages will satisfy this requirement.

Always indent twice at the beginning of a block quotation (so that it resembles the indentation of a normal paragraph).

Paul Krugman wrote, "Inflation is not a problem," (18).

George Washington was the first president of the United States.

Sources in a Works Cited page should be listed alphabetically by the first element, usually the author's last name.

If in any doubt, I should always cite a source.

My name is spelled Mr. Creely.

Nested quotations (quotes within quotes) should be enclosed by single quotation marks.

Every source listed in an MLA Works Cited page should have been cited somewhere within the actual paper.

Within a parenthetical citation place a comma between the author's last name and the page number.

A hyphen and a dash are equivalent punctuation marks.

Block quotations should be enclosed in quotations like "normal" quotations.

The scores in the first group went up, the scores in the second group remained stable.

Students should use block quotations as much as possible in their research papers--the more the merrier!

In the upper right corner of each page (the 1st page being optional), put the student's last name and the page number.

Highschool is correctly written as one word.

Ideally there should be NO punctuation mistakes in the submitted final draft of a research paper.

Paul Krugman wrote, "Inflation is not a problem." (89).

The Modern Language Association (MLA) and the American Psychological Association (APA) use the same formatting rules.

The first line of an entry for a source in a W. C. page should NOT be indented; subsequent lines should be indented.