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
  • You need to apply this same color-coding to your final rough draft. You will remove the color-coding for your final draft!
• 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 making a copy, sharing your Google Doc, and allow them to be a commenter.  They can then comment on your paper or offer suggestions without editing. You also need to leave detailed feedback on the peer review sheet. 

• Peer review sheet
• 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. We recommend scanning with the Notes app if you have an iPhone or you can take pictures of each individual page if that is not an option.

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