skills of the Capella Writing Standards
Evidence and APA
The third core writing skill of the Capella Writing Standards is related to evidence.
Capella Writing Standard
Integrate appropriate evidence
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Developing your skills as a scholar requires you to consider your research methods, source credibility, and synthesis of complex information. Ensuring you are able to integrate appropriate evidence in your texts will better situate you for success and support your development as a scholar.
APA Style and Format
Capella requires that learners use APA Style to provide attribution to the authors of external sources. APA promotes the abilities to paraphrase and summarize, create concise texts, and develop in-text citations and reference pages that will connect your readers to important sources of evidence.
APA has developed a virtual representation of the APA manual on Academic Writer, a tool that you can use to support you in following APA format. All Capella learners are provided with a subscription to Academic Writer.
Explore APA’s virtual representation of the APA Manual.
What Does It Mean To “Use APA”?
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BASICS OF ETHICAL ACADEMIC WORK
APA has a foundation in academic honesty and integrity. To uphold these terms, writers must provide citation of external ideas or sources, eliminate bias from their texts, and aim for objectivity.
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BASICS OF DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION
APA provides writers with organizational tactics for sections of a text as well as standard formatting guidelines for academic texts, including formatting for the title page, table of contents, and tables and/or figures.
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BASICS OF CITATION
APA promotes the author/year writing process, wherein ideas from external sources are immediately cited in-text, using the year of publication.
APA Paper Formatting
Use this basic APA paper template for your course submissions. Note that most assignments do not require you to include an abstract, so you can simply omit that page. View APA Formatting in a Sample Paper
Evidence and APA
The third core writing skill of the Capella Writing Standards is related to
evidence.
Capella Writing Standard
Integrate appropriate
evidence
Integrate into text appropriate use of scholarly sources, evidence, and citation style.
Developing your skills as a scholar requires you to consider your research
methods, source credibility, and synthesis of complex information. Ensuring
you are able to integrate appropriate evidence in your texts will better situate
you for success and supp
ort your development as a scholar.
