University Writing Center: Before You Start Writing

Advice from Dena Taylor, Health Sciences Writing Centre at the University of Toronto, about writing literature reviews in the health sciences

A rich resource from the OWL at Purdue on a wide variety of common writing assignments

From the APA:

"Writers creating PowerPoint presentations in APA Style should present information clearly and concisely. Many APA Style guidelines can be applied to presentations (e.g., the guidance for crediting sources, using bias-free language, and writing clearly and concisely).

However, decisions about font size, amount of text on a slide, color scheme, use of animations, and so on are up to writers; these details are not specified as part of APA Style."

"The APA manual does not have a section on how to format a PowerPoint presentation, but you can follow APA style guidelines within your PowerPoint. For example:

Include the same information on your title slide that you would have on a title page.
Include in-text citations for any quote, paraphrase, image, graph, table, data, audio or video file that you use within your presentation. Please note that photographs are considered figures in APA style. See section 7.30 of the APA manual for more information about this.
The last slide will be your References List.
“No citation, permission, or copyright attribution is necessary for clip art from programs like Microsoft Word or PowerPoint” (American Psychological Association [APA], 2020, p. 346).
Do not reproduce images without permission from the creator or owner of the image. See section 12.15 of the APA manual for more information about this."

A guide from the OWL at Purdue on crafting the best thesis statement for the type of paper you are writing.

A video from the Columbus State Library on how to evaluate resources using the CRAP test.

A video from the Stanford University Library about how to select the best sources for your research paper.

Video from Libncsu on vetting sources. What does it mean for a source to be credible? Why is it important to use these sources? How can you tell if a source is credible?