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PRO100 – APA Activity Worksheet

APA Activity Worksheet


In this worksheet you will practice creating citations and references for various types of
sources. This will help prepare you to cite and reference sources in your future assignments.

Textbooks
Throughout your program you may need to reference information from your textbooks in
your assignment(s).

1. Create a reference for a required textbook in your program.

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2. Create an in-text citation for the reference.

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Handouts
It is February 20, 2018 and you are creating a brochure on study tips for future Stenberg
College students, in your PRO100 course. You wish to use information from your Orientation
course. You take information from two handouts.

1. Write the reference for the Stenberg College handout “How to Read a Course Outline”
(published in 2018).

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2. Write an in-text citation for the reference.

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Websites
You are writing an assignment in which you need to discuss the number of students enrolled
in Canadian universities in 2016. You require reliable information regarding university
statistics, so you visit the Universities Canada website.

1. Visit: https://www.univcan.ca/universities/facts-and-stats/

2. Create a reference for this section of the website.

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3. Create an in-text citation for the reference.

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4. In your assignment, you paraphrase the following information from the website:

There were 1,016,000 full-time students and 290,000 part-time students in 2016.

Rewrite the sentence and insert the in-text citation in the proper place.

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You are writing a report on the rise in fentanyl use by youth. You wish to use information
from this National Post article.

1. View the article: https://nationalpost.com/health/these-drugs-are-killing-our-kids-why-


teen-brains-are-more-vulnerable-to-fentanyl-and-opioid-addiction

2. Create a reference for this online news article.

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3. Create an in-text citation for the reference.

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4. In your assignment, you use a direct quote from the article:

The Canadian Institute for the Health Information released information in 2007 “that
youth aged 15‐24 experienced a 62 percent increase in hospitalizations for opioid use...
[representing]… the fastest increase of any group”

Write a sentence utilizing this quote and insert the in‐text citation in the proper place.

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Images
You have been asked to create a PowerPoint presentation about the digestive system. You
need to include images.
1. Go to www.google.com
2. Type in digestive system.
3. Select “images”.
4. Click on the photo of your choice and visit the website that it is found on.
5. Write the reference for this image.

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6. Write an in-text citation for the reference. Keep in mind that when citing an image, you
must also include an in-text citation underneath the image. Use today’s date for the
purpose of this activity.
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Journal Articles
At times you will need to access journal articles to obtain reliable research. As a student of
Stenberg College you have access to ProQuest databases to search academic journals for
recent research.

1. Access ProQuest via the Student Resources section on Moodle.

2. Find an article that relates to your program of study and write the reference.

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3. Create an in-text citation for the reference.

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Lecture Videos
You wish to include information from a Stenberg College lecture video titled Student
Services Presentation (posted on January 4, 2018) that you viewed on YouTube at the
following URL: https://youtu.be/ve-9qp_rXKw. Create a reference for this lecture video.

1. Create a reference for this lecture video.

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2. Create an in-text citation for the reference.

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