Summarize your fictitious paper in about 150 words

Item #1 Format a blank MS Word document to APA standards. This means your header on the first page and each subsequent page needs to be formatted to the APA guidelines.

Item #2 Create a title page. Invent a title for a fictitious paper.

Item #3 Create an abstract page. Summarize your fictitious paper in about 150 words. Please keep in mind that this is about the process of creating the page, not on the content of the summary. Don’t feel pressured to create something academic, just fill the space so that you show you understand what an abstract might look like.

Item #4 Insert a page break. Title the new page ‘References’ in accordance to APA standards.

Items #5-8 On this new page, ‘find’ these items and put them in alphabetical order, per APA guidelines. Put a number in parentheses at the end of item to denote which number on the list it belongs to:

#5 Find a book with one author published in the last five years and cite it.

#6 Find an article published today on the BBC (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.with an author and cite it.

#7 Find a book that has a named translator and cite it.

#8 Find a movie that you really enjoy and cite it.