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Below is a paragraph with a few APA style errors in it. Your job is…
Below is a paragraph with a few APA style errors in it. Your job is to try to spot as many
errors as you can!
On social media, people tend to present an idealized image of themselves and share
the primary positive aspects of their lives and not the negative aspects (Alfasi and all, 2019).
Social media tends to distort the reality for others- when people see that a person is only
posting pictures of happy, successful, and enjoyable moments, they assume that there is no
pain, suffering, failures, or problems that take place in the day-to-day lives of those they see
posting such positive images (Alfasi). According to Smith & Johnson (22), These picturesque
representations of others tend to arouse negative thoughts that something is going wrong in
our own lives. This can cause many emotions like shame and envy to trigger after seeing the
positive aspects of others thus, comparing it to a person’s own reality (Alfasi et all, 2019, p.
233).
Find at least three APA style errors in the paragraph above, and provide a correction for that
error.
a. Error 1:
i. Correction:
b. Error 2:
i. Correction:
c. Error 3:
i. Correction:
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2. Now, create a reference (like you would write in a reference page) for the article you read in
your assignment # 3 (A Picture’s Worth) Note that the doi for this article is:
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02444
3. Correct the following three references – type in the correct format below each incorrect
reference. Please write your corrected reference in a different color than black (any color is
fine!).
Mercier H., and Sperber D. Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory.
(2011). Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 34, pages. 57-74. DOI:
10.1017/S0140525X10000968
Blakemore S. J., & Mills K. L. (2014). Is adolescence a sensitive period for sociocultural
processing? Annual Review of Psychology, 187-207, 65,.
https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115202
Bowker, Amy. (2004). Predicting Friendship Stability During Early Adolescence. The Journal of
Early Adolescence, 24(2), pp. 85-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431603262666
4. Let’s say you wanted to cite the Bowker article from question 3 above. Pretend that you wrote
the following sentence about the paper, now give me the correct parenthetical in-text citation for
this journal article (remember, parenthetical references go at the end of the sentence in
parentheses)
Researchers discuss how limiting social media use can decrease feelings of loneliness and
depression.
5. Now, let’s say you wanted to cite the Mercier article from question 3 above. Pretend that you
wrote the following sentence about the paper, now give me the correct in-text citation within the
sentence (not a parenthetical reference, write the reference in the actual sentence. You may edit
the sentence accordingly).
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) can cause people to experience undesirable feelings
6. Now, pretend that you were including the following direct quote from a research paper by
Benjamin S. Appleberry, Samantha L. Langue, and Dennis H. Grant in 2007. The journal article
is titled, “Alcohol Placebos Influence the Misinformation Effect”, and you found the quote on
page 198.
“Subjects were told that the experiment was about alcohol’s influence on preferred learning
modes (visual and verbal)”
7. make a reference page for the three references you corrected in question 3. Imagine that they
are the only three articles that you cited in your paper. Make sure you include the corrected
version of the references.
