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Activity: The Great APA Easter Hunt

In this lab, you will complete a small-group activity focusing on correctly referencing using APA style. You will be given a printout containing in-text citations and a reference list. Your group’s task is to find and circle as many errors in this document as possible.

Since this is our final meeting before the Easter break, the group in each lab that identifies the most errors will be rewarded with some Easter treats!

Rules of the Game:

• Resources: You may use resources like the APA Style website to look up general rules and examples. However, you may not search for the specific references listed on your printout.
• Scoring: You will gain 1 point for each correctly identified error, but you will lose 1 point for each false positive (incorrectly marking something as an error).

Post-activity: Work smarter, not harder

Once we’ve experienced how difficult it is to get referencing right manually, we will help you install tools on your laptop that format citations automatically so you can avoid similar errors in your own work:

• Zotero
• Zotero Connector