Honors Biology: Formatting Your Paper

• I can use APA guidelines to format my paper. 
• I can create a Reference Page containing correct citations of all sources used in my paper. 
• I can correctly use parenthetical citations so that readers can easily access my sources. 

1. Talk about visual representations, captions, and citations.

• Visual representation instructions
• Visual representation example and details of captions
  • You are required to have 3 visual representations and captions.  One MUST be a table or graph. If you want a paper copy of these examples, talk to a librarian!
• Example of visual representation with Future Trends section

1. Set up your final paper in APA formatting

• APA formatting template
• Capitalizemytitle.com
  • GREAT resource to help with in-text citation capitalization for articles, essay title capitalization, and subheading capitalization.
• Abstract Example
• APA Sample Paper
  • **NOTE: DO NOT USE LEVEL 1 SUBHEADINGS FOR YOUR PAPER! You WILL use a centered title on the 3rd page, but all other subheadings are left-aligned!

2. Review APA guidelines for Reference page.

• Noodletools link
• APA References presentation
• APA formatting rubric

HOMEWORK: Rough draft DUE to Canvas on Friday, March 1st!

​1. Submit your rough draft to Canvas.

• Canvas Link
  • ​Remember: your final paper needs to include your References at the end!

​2. Peer edit your partners' papers by sharing your Google Doc and allow them to be a commenter.  They can then comment on your paper or offer suggestions without editing.

• Examples of valuable peer feedback
• Peer review rubric

3. To turn in your edited rough drafts, download your Google Doc as a Word Document. (This allows your teacher to see any comments.) Next, upload the Word Document to Canvas and submit with pictures of each page of your peer review rubric.

HOMEWORK: Peer edits DUE to Canvas on Friday, March 22nd.

​HOMEWORK: FINAL PAPER DUE TO CANVAS ON MARCH 29TH BY 11:59 PM. SUBMIT ONE COPY TO TURNITIN THROUGH CANVAS AND ONE COPY TO CANVAS UNDER THE REFERENCE ASSIGNMENT!  BOTH COPIES WILL BE PDFs!

• Final paper rubric