Your Personal Formatting and Citation Guide through the Academic Inferno

When you start college and get your first assignments, you understand that formatting your paper is almost as important as researching and writing it. You can get your points taken away or even get your paper back for revision and corrections because of the wrong or inconsistent style. There are dozens of citation and writing styles, but APA and MLA are the most significant and widespread across colleges and universities in the USA. They share many similarities, which is probably the reason why many students find it so confusing and often cannot tell the difference between MLA and APA citation. Continue reading...

When the writing is over and done with, your paper is still far from being ready for submission. Now you have to format it following the guideline from your instructor or your writing center and, of course, furnish it with the correct APA citation list. This may not be the most important stage of the work but it is still significant since the points might be taken from you for not doing the formatting properly and not providing a proper APA citation for a book you’ve been quoting in a paper. How do you cite a book in APA and what APA even means? Continue reading...