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Title: Any of you Microsoft Word Gurus
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 19, 2011, 11:49:17 PM

Okay, I'm writing a paper on Psychological Disorders, and they way my teacher wants us to organize our outline is very confusing. I was hoping some of you guys really good with Word could help me interpret what she means. Here's what she said in the handout:

Title page- Short title left justified; centered full title 12 words or less, Bottom of page writers name, course number and section, Instructors name, date all centered.

 

2.      Abstract (introduction) on page 2. Talks about the thesis you will discuss in paper and your findings. Should be concise. No longer than 120 words. List studies cited in paper in alphabetical order giving brief description of subject. Heading is centered and is called abstract.

 

3.      Page 3 begins body of paper. Full title is centered. Writer states thesis and sets up organization of paper. Centered headings make flow of paper easy to follow.  Be sure to note reference to source following APA format first time and there after. Each paragraph should be longer than one sentence but not longer than one page. Headings of paragraphs should appear the same for all levels of headings. You can use heading, sub headings and subordinate headings to organize the paper. See rules for citing authors when more than one.  ****Plagiarism- give credit for others words and ideas to them. Use quotation marks when exact words of another are used. Summarize your findings with your interpretation. Conclusion should state how your thesis is supported or if there is a disparity in your findings.

 

4.      Reference page is separate. Heading “reference” is centered. List is alphabetical by author’s last names; last name first.  First line of entry is left margin; subsequent in ½ indents. Double spacing.

 

5.      *** Read earlier APA format handout for more information.***.

So, I'm really just confused whenever she says it is "left/right justified" and "abstract" if anybody could interpret what that means in Microsoft Word, they would be a great help and I would be very thankful. I tried to find APA styling online with Microsoft Word, but it doesn't seem to be the type that she is talking about.

 :salute

Title: Re: Any of you Microsoft Word Gurus
Post by: Jayhawk on October 19, 2011, 11:59:20 PM

She describes abstract good enough, it's just a summery of what the paper is about.  Search some scholarly articles and you'll see lots of abstracts which are basically a paragraph talking about the entire study.

Left Justified means alined along the left margin.

Right justified means alined along the right margin

Center means center

Left justified for the header, centered for the full title.  Just google APA example and click the first .pdf file.

Title: Re: Any of you Microsoft Word Gurus
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 20, 2011, 12:04:22 AM

Well, the only way I can see to order it is like this:

                                                                                                                       Title                           Page #


If that makes any sense? The title and page numbers are both on the right hand side, just the page number is farther to the right than the title
Do you know how to organize the headers so that they are in the correct spot?

Title: Re: Any of you Microsoft Word Gurus
Post by: B4Buster on October 20, 2011, 07:33:29 AM

What version of word? And throughout your studies, different professors in different classes will prefer writings in particular formats. I highly suggest buying a reference book that gives you examples of all of there (there are probably hundreds). I have a good book for that - I'll try to remember to get the name/author when I get home from work.

Title: Re: Any of you Microsoft Word Gurus
Post by: B4Buster on October 20, 2011, 07:37:33 AM

All of them* can't edit on my phone.

Title: Re: Any of you Microsoft Word Gurus
Post by: Jayhawk on October 20, 2011, 08:30:45 AM

She just seems to be asking you to format your paper per APA styling.

If I understand your problem, you're having trouble getting the formatting on the header.  Try selecting between the title and page number and hitting 'tab.'  That should separate the two.

Great reference for APA: http://my.ilstu.edu/~jhkahn/APAsample.pdf

Title: Re: Any of you Microsoft Word Gurus
Post by: 1pLUs44 on October 20, 2011, 02:35:28 PM

Thanks guys, y'all are a great help! I finally got it written, it took me so long just because she gave me outlines on how the paper should be formatted, and not what the material should be inside of it. (I ended up just guessing what she wanted in her paper, but I organized it rather well and wrote it rather well.)

Thanks for all your help!
 :salute

Title: Re: Any of you Microsoft Word Gurus
Post by: jigsaw on October 20, 2011, 05:44:10 PM

I found this very useful for writing APA formatted papers http://www.easyapa.net/
Also stores your references in a database. Should you need to use that particular reference again in the future all you have to do is click on it and it properly inserts the citation and souce on the reference page.