EXERCISE APA 3–3 Integrating sources in APA papers

EXERCISE APA 3–3Integrating sources in APA papers

Read the following passage and the information about its source. Then decide whether each student sample uses the source correctly. If the student has made an error in using the source, click on Error; if the student has quoted correctly, click on OK.

ORIGINAL SOURCE

According to their scores on achievement tests, which correlate closely with IQ, GED* recipients were every bit as smart as high-school graduates. But when Heckman** looked at their path through higher education, he discovered that GED recipients weren’t anything like high-school graduates. At age twenty-two, Heckman found, just 3 percent of GED recipients were enrolled in a four-year university or had completed some kind of post-secondary degree, compared to 46 percent of high-school graduates. In fact, Heckman discovered that when you consider all kinds of important future outcomes—annual income, unemployment rate, divorce rate, use of illegal drugs—GED recipients look exactly like high-school dropouts, despite the fact that they have earned this supposedly valuable extra credential, and despite the fact that they are, on average, considerably more intelligent than high-school dropouts.

Tough, P. (2012). How children succeed: Grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

[The source paragraph is from page xviii.]

*GED (General Educational Development), a test of academic competence at a high school level.

**James Heckman, an economist and a Nobel Prize recipient, whose research focuses in part on educational development.

Excerpt from How children succeed: Grit, curiosity, and the hidden power of character. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. Reprinted by permission.

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EXERCISE APA 3–3 Integrating sources in APA papers - 1 of 5: It is a misperception that GED recipients are unintelligent; as Tough (2012) noted, “according to their scores on achievement tests, GED recipients were every bit as smart as high-school graduates” (p. xviii).

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EXERCISE APA 3–3 Integrating sources in APA papers - 2 of 5: Most GED recipients did not continue their education after receiving their certificates. “At age twenty-two, . . . just 3 percent of GED recipients were enrolled in a four-year university” (Tough, 2012, p. xviii).

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EXERCISE APA 3–3 Integrating sources in APA papers - 3 of 5: For some measures of success, Tough (2012) explained that “GED recipients look exactly like high-school dropouts” (p. xviii).

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EXERCISE APA 3–3 Integrating sources in APA papers - 4 of 5: Tough (2012) cited research showing that while almost half of high school graduates went on to higher education at some level, only 3 percent of GED recipients did so (p. xviii).

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EXERCISE APA 3–3 Integrating sources in APA papers - 5 of 5: Tough (2012) noted that GED recipients are, on average, considerably more intelligent than high-school dropouts, although their “important future outcomes” are no different from those of dropouts (p. xviii).