Review this tutorial on writing reaction papers thoroughly then write a two-page summary of what you learned. This must be a minimum of two complete pages, minimum of 500 words. (The tutorial on writing reaction paper is attached below)Reaction Papers
Psychology Seminar
Outline
How to approach the reaction papers (slide 3)
APA 7 title page (slide 7)
Introduction tips (slide 18)
How to improve structure/flow (slide 20)
Common mistakes with grammar (slide 24)
How to find peer-reviewed sources (slide 29)
APA 7 citations (slide 37)
APA 7 references (slide 43)
How to approach the
reaction papers
How to approach the reaction papers
Read the prompt CAREFULLY to help you approach the reading in an effective manner
Read the article and take notes while you do so (e.g., highlight areas that may help
provide a direction for your paper)
How to approach
the reactionpapers
Comment
s
Look at the feedback from past
reaction papers to see where to
improve
We leave specific
comments and edits on your
paper using track changes on
word
Tracked
Chang
es
How to approach the reaction papers
Create an outline to determine
direction
This helps figure out what to
research and find support for
This helps determine if you’re
on the right path. You can
send this to the GTA to see if
you’re answering the prompt
correctly before writing out
the whole essay
It helps with organization too
APA 7 Title Page
Cover Page/Title Page
Student page
No longer need a running head like in 6th edition
Additional information required
Title name
Author names
Affiliation (Department name and school name)
Course name and course number
Instructor name and title
Assignment due date
Header with page number
Cover Page/Title Page
1st Step: Enter page
number
1.
Double click on the
blank part of the
paper that is on the
upper page to get
the header/footer
options to pop up
Cover Page/Title Page
2
3
1st Step: Page number
4
2. Click on the “Header & Footer”
tab that popped up
3. Click on “Page number”
4. Click on “top of page”
5. Click on “Plain Number 3”
5
Cover Page/Title Page
2nd step: title name
1.
Click on “center” from the “paragraph” section
2.
Push the space bar 4x
3.
Put the name of the title page in bold font
Cover Page/Title Page
3rd Step: Author names
1.
Add an extra space after the title
2.
Add author name to be formatted: First name
MI Last Name
Cover Page/Title Page
4th Step: Affiliation
1.
On the next line, add the department name
(e.g., Department of Psychology)
2.
Add a comma, then add the institution’s name
(e.g., Norfolk State University)
Cover Page/Title Page
5th Step: Course name and course number
1.
On the next line, add the course number first
2.
Put a colon (:) then the course name
Cover Page/Title Page
6th Step: Professor name
1. On a separate line
2. Enter professor’s name: Title, First Name, and Last
Name
1.
2.
Cover Page/Title Page
1
8th
Step: Lastly, double
space it
Highlight the words
Press the button with the
arrow coming out the of
the box
Go to line spacing and
drop down to “double”
Press “OK”
2
Introduction
Introduction
One of the most important aspects of the introduction is the topic sentence
Topic sentence: Tells the reader what you will be discussing and in what order you will be
discussing it
Example: I will be discussing how cannabis should not be used as adjunct for mental health
treatment for anxiety, depression, and PTSD.
Discuss an overview of what you will be discussing in the introduction
How to Improve Structure/Flow
How to Improve Structure/flow
Outline will help you determine the structure, so you can organize the paper properly
Use transition sentences
Transition help summarize information you have discussed and introduce new topics
Example: Not only does cannabis help with anxiety disorders, but it has also been shown to be
helpful for depressive disorders.
Use headers
Headers describe what will be discussed in the following paragraphs
How to Improve Structure/Flow
APA 7 headers are as follows:
Level of
header
Structure
1
Centered, Boldfaced, All Major Words are Capitalized
2
Flushed left, Boldfaced, All Major Words are Capitalized
3
Flushed Left, Boldfaced, Italics, All Major Words are Capitalized
How to Improve Structure/Flow
Level 1 header
Level 2 header
Level 3 header
Common Grammar
Mistakes
Common Grammar Mistakes
The difference between their and there and they’re
There refers to location, in, and at (e.g., There are a lot of people who disagree with me)
Their refers to possession or belonging to someone (e.g., Their high cannabis use contributed to a
lot of problems).
They’re = they are (e.g., They’re the best kind of people)
The difference between to and too
To refers to direction or with a verb (e.g., I went to class)
Too refers to agreement (e.g., I, too, think it is bad or They also had high cannabis use too)
The difference between affect and effect
Effect refers to outcome/something that is influenced by (e.g., The effect of cannabis is bad)
Affect refers to the action on something else (e.g., Cannabis affects one’s mental health)
Common Grammar Mistakes
The difference between that and who
Only use who when you’re referring to people
Only use that when you’re referring to things
The difference between than and then
Than refers comparison (e.g., CBT for depression is better than cannabis and CBT for depression)
Then refers to next and at that time (e.g. People will receive treatment for their drug use then we
help them find jobs)
Common Grammar Mistakes
When to use commas
Interruptions: these are not essential to the sentence (e.g., Cannabis, for example, will
cause X)
Lists: commas are used between items in a list (e.g., Cannabis causes anxiety,
depression, and substance use disorder).
FANBOYS: You use a comma to combine two independent clauses using for, and, nor,
but, or, yet, so.
You know it is an independent clause when there is a subject (noun) and verb within it
Example: She likes to eat pineapple pizza, but she hates eating pineapples by itself.
Subject
Verb
Verb
Common Grammar Mistakes
Read it out loud to yourself to slow your brain down. After seeing something we have
written, we tend to ignore mistakes/not see them
Word has a computer voice that will read it out loud to you too if that is helpful
If you stumble over the sentence or have to re-read it out loud, there is probably a
grammar mistake in there
How to find peerreviewed articles
How to find peer-reviewed articles
Peer-reviewed articles are articles that have been reviewed by other experts in the field
You may have to double check with the journal’s web page to confirm it is a peer
reviewed journal
Peer reviewed articles are not governmental websites, blogs, articles from conferences,
theses, or dissertations.
Peer Reviewed Articles
My preferred way is through Google Scholar, but it will give you non-peer reviewed
sources. You need to be careful when using the site.
https://scholar.google.com/
Peer Reviewed Articles
Go to google scholar and type
for whatever you want to find
more information
If you can access the article, it
will show up on the right side
Click to access
the article
Peer Reviewed Articles
*Side perk
Google scholar will also help you create a skeleton
APA reference, but you will most likely need to fix
it/add more information in
Click on the quotation mark icon which will lead to a
pop up window of all different kinds of references
Peer Reviewed Articles
You can also go to NSU’s online database to help look for peer reviewed articles
http://libguides.nsu.edu/az.php
Peer Reviewed Articles
Click on the “P” on the top of
the directory
Scan down to PSYCNET
Click on the link which will bring
you to a page to enter in your
NSU ID information (Same
information when you login to
Blackboard from NSU’s site)
Do NOT use your NSU email
address
Peer Reviewed Articles
Click on “Peer reviewed” and
“APA Full Text”
Type in your keywords for these
items
APA 7 Citations
APA 7 Citation Errors
Citations: Who do we cite for authors?
When we have three or more authors, we now just cite the first author and et al.
With the sixth edition of APA, we had to cite all authors up to 6 at least once. This is no longer the
case.
When 3+ authors: “Military sexual trauma is on the rise (Davies et al., 2019).”
When 1-2 authors: “Military sexual trauma is on the rise (Davies & Richards, 2019).”
Citations: Parenthetical VS In-text
In-text Citation
Parenthetical
Definition
Use the author(s) names
within the paragraph/state
their names
Author(s) names are not mentioned directly in the
sentences. It is mentioned at the end in parentheses
Example
Example: Davies and Smith
(2020) suggest that MST is
on the rise.
Example: It is possible that MST is on the rise (Davies &
Smith, 2020)
Use of and/&
Only use the word form of
“and”
Only use ampersand (i.e., &)
The situation of the year
Year only is in parenthesis
Authors and year are in parentheses. Additionally,
there is a comma between authors and year.
Citations: Common errors
The placement of the period.
It goes after the parenthesis for parenthetical citations, not before it
WRONG: MST is on the rise. (Davies & Smith, 2020)
CORRECT: MST is on the rise (Davies & Smith, 2020).
Refer to authors by their last names only
WRONG: Do not use Dr. or PhD (e.g., Dr. Rachel Davies mentioned)
WRONG: Don’t refer to article titles (e.g., in the article titled, “XXXX”, Davies mentioned)
WRONG: Do not use the first name (e.g., Rachel Davies (2019) mentioned)
Multiple citations supporting a statement alphabetical order, with a semi-colon (;) splitting
the manuscripts
E.g., Moral injury is linked with depressive symptoms (Davies, 2014; Kelley & Bravo, 2018)
Citations: Common Errors
Anything that is not common knowledge NEEDS a citation
If you had to look it up, then you NEED to cite it
Most people under cite
Every new sentence needs a citation even if you already cited the authors in the sentence before
and you’re continuing the information from the study.
If you find yourself citing someone over and over, then you may be using too much information
from that source
Stating personal opinions as facts
Include some kind of verbiage that indicates it is your opinion (e.g., it could be inferred that…, I
think that….,)
Back it up with some kind of source if you feel it is fact
APA 7 References
Reference Page: General Overview
References title = bold because it is a level 1
header
References are in alphabetical order
References have hanging indent
Should have its own page and not right after
your last sentence
This is what hanging
indent looks like —>
Reference Page
The references needs to be in hanging
indent
1. Highlight the references. Click on the
arrow box in the “paragraph” box
2. Go to “special” and move it to hanging
3. Push “OK”
Reference Page
Put the references in alphabetical order, do NOT waste your
time by doing this yourself
Word has a button that does it for you
Highlight all the references, then click on this button
Reference Page
References for different sources have particular formats
1.
Journal articles which are scholarly sources have the following format:
Author 1 Last Name, Author 1 First Initial. Author 1 Middle Initial., Author 2 Last Name, Author 2
First Initial. Author 2 Middle Initial., & Author 3 Last Name, Author 3 First Initial. Author 3 Middle
Initial. (Year). Title of article. Title of Journal, volume #, (issue #), pp-pp. https://doi.org/XXX
Italics
Reference Page
Tips and tricks
Google Scholar will give you a skeleton reference
*Just know that you will
have to edit it
Reference Page
Example of what Google Scholar gives you:
Currier, J. M., Holland, J. M., Drescher, K., & Foy, D. (2015). Initial psychometric evaluation of the
Moral Injury Questionnaire—Military version. Clinical psychology & psychotherapy, 22(1), 5463.MISSING DOI
Correct format:
Currier, J. M., Holland, J. M., Drescher, K., & Foy, D. (2015). Initial psychometric evaluation of the
Moral Injury Questionnaire—Military version. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 22(1), 54-63.
https://doi.org/10.1002/cpp.1866
Example of Journal Reference on your own
This is how you would do it on your own:
Bryan, C. J., Bryan, A. O., Anestis, M. D., Anestis, J. C., Green, B. A., Etienne, N., Morrow, C. E., & RaySannerud, B. (2016). Measuring moral injury: Psychometric properties of Moral Injury Events Scale in two
Military samples. Assessment, 23(3), 557-570. https://doi.org/ 10.1177/1073191115590855
Reference Page
Book reference
Reference Page
References for websites
Author Last name, First initial. (Year, Month date). Title of the article. Name of Website. URL to
website
*No longer have to put “Retrieved from: URL” as you did in 6th edition for APA
Reference Page Example
Stein, M. (2020, February 28). Avoidance of uncertainty: Generalized anxiety explained. Psychology
Today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-the-anxiousmind/202002/avoidance-uncertainty-generalized-anxiety-explained
Reference Page Common Errors
Do NOT put Dr. in front of the names
Do not spell out their first name
Italicize article titles for websites, journal names, and volume numbers
The article title only has the first word and proper nouns capitalized, all other words are
lower cased
Do not include the link for where you got the article for journal articles
Still needing help?
Reach out to the GTA for this class
Rachel Davies: r.davies100322@spartans.nsu.edu
I will take drafts of papers up to Monday 11:59PM on the week it is due to edit and give feedback
I can answer questions you may have about the paper
Reach out to Dr. Colson
Dr. Colson: dgcolson@nsu.edu
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