APA Formatting and Using Scholarly Literature for Nursing and Allied Health

Practice answer (sections citied improperly are highlighted in red below):

Students rely too heavily on web pages for their academic writing sources. Williamson (2009), writes that, in the undergraduate paper samples studied, nearly 60% of cited sources pointed to commercial websites rather than more reliable academic sources (p. 22). The problem, however, comes with some ethical grey areas. "This reliance on web content represents a dilemma for many professors because academic content is much harder to access once students graduate and no longer have access to university libraries." [Every separate sentence should contain an in-text citation].

Jones & Falcon (2022) show that there is a possible high school-to-college transition influence on this issue, writing that "almost all junior and senior high school assignments examined showed a heavy reliance on shallow surface information" taken from the top results of Google searches (pp. 102-103). Several recent studies highlight possible remedies to this, using a combination of required College Writing course assignments, writing center outreach, and or library instruction. [The "recent studies" noted should be cited here. Example of a parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence: (Kraft, 2017; Bicks, 2020; Thompson, 2022). This paper will argue that in addition to... [note: the text and sources here are for example purposes only; they are not real]