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!
    • If you have further questions about formatting the visual representations, click here to see additional comments about capitalization, etc.
• Example of visual representation with Future Trends section
• How to cite an image from a website in Noodletools

2. The librarians will go around and give feedback to all students on two paragraphs of their choice OR feedback about the visual representations and a paragraph of their choice. Students will continue to work on the visual representations and do a self-check of their paper so far.

• Feedback day checklist

1. Export References from Noodletools and review APA guidelines for Reference page.

• Noodletools link
• APA References presentation

2. Set up your final paper in APA formatting by getting the template from Canvas

• 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
  • This is the exemplar paper Mrs. Neneman wrote with captions for all formatting elements you need! Check your final paper against this!
• APA formatting rubric

HOMEWORK: Rough draft WITH FORMATTING DUE to Canvas on Friday, March 7th!

​1. 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

2. 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 28th.

​HOMEWORK: FINAL PAPER DUE TO CANVAS ON APRIL 4TH 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