APA style and citations for dummies - Joe Giampalmi 2021

Use source engagement with every applicable college paper
Ten strategies for creative source engagement
The parts of ten

Recall the sandbox lesson you learned as a child to share your toys. Source engagement isn’t a one-course tool. It’s a skill that you share across all courses. Every time you write a paper in a nonlanguage course, you can apply the skills that you learned in your language courses. Source engagement is a skill that has legs.

In a business course, for example, engagement applies to support for a topic such as advocating employee profit sharing: “Fish (2019) said, ’Profit sharing increased employee responsibility toward each other’ (p. 47).”

Here are additional examples across the curriculum:

· Hover (2019) argues, “Learning is not a spectator sport” (p. 34).

· Watson (2018) said that success can be defined as “average intelligence and above-average work habits” (p. 44).

Your writing professors are impressed when you effectively use source engagement. Professors in content courses seldom see effective use of sources, rarely see source engagement, and are happy to reward source engagement with good grades.