SED 587: Advanced Application of Positive Behavior Supports: APA Citation & Research Organization

Right-Click-Open in New Tab, to enlarge. American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000

Paraphrasing is stating something in your own words to convey the same meaning.

There are steps to paraphrasing:

1. Understand the text- highlight and re-read to fully understand.
2. Pull out key points of the text.
3. Put the source away and rephrase in your own words.
4. Check your words against the original source. If there are exact phrases that you rewrote, put quotes around it.
5. Cite it, using a signal phrase or in-text citation or footnote.

See our Citations Guides for help formatting your citations properly:

Effectively organizing your research promotes clearer thinking and writing. A critical research organization tool is a citation manager (CM), which is software that stores, arranges, and creates auto-generated citations of your sources. Zotero is a free CM and this version has a 300 MB capacity that you can download onto your computer. You can work on multiple research projects simultaneously, upload images or PDF files, and export citations into Microsoft Word or Google Docs. It's easy to use and will help you manage research-based assignments and organize your course readings for easy access.