Sounds good so far. I might reword this part: “getting their information needs met” to say “meeting their information needs”. That is really my only suggestion.

@rawrzyrawr I would go with proper APA 7 – use the paper title.

I am so glad I read this! I was not sure either so thanks for asking!

Your information is good and well worded but for an abstract it runs long. The abstract should be concise and address why the paper is being written and address briefly the salient points of the paper. Generally in an abstract citing material is not done. Save that for the introductions. The assignment example papers are a great resource for…[Read more]

I think your abstract was informative and let me know some basic facts that I was pulled to wanting to know more about. It may be helpful to reference your paper and how this information is actually what you are going to talk about. Even just a quick one sentence thing. This feels a bit more introduction and less abstract to me.

It sounds great! My only suggestion would be to remove the quote and citation. Abstracts do not generally include cited material. I think you could rework that part to be your own words rather than a quote or paraphrase.

@fdonovan38 I do not understand – do you mean how do students submit their activity to Canvas?

I am not sure what you are asking but if you do not see your comments showing up on the blogs you have replied to, the student may not have approved the comments.

@lionheartedlibrarian…Dawn, you’re not alone. And I feel your pain. I was about twice the word count when I turned the corner and started to trim things back. First, be sure to save what you already have pre-cut. It might be useful later. For me, I had several sub-captions/sections in both the Lit Review and Discussion sections. Had to cut…[Read more]

I am a serious over-writer too and I had to cut significantly. Search for redundancy with a fine tooth comb. I also went through and reread sentences for superfluous words. I had a professor years ago who taught me SO much about writing and one thing he always talked about was that we do not need our sentences to contain as many words as we…[Read more]

I was thinking we need to add any sources we mention to our ref list. Plus a reader may want to know the site you went to. @michael is that right?

I always cite any reference to a website. It’s good practice to do so.

Hi Rachel! I’ve found this infographic helpful in mapping assignments to competencies: https://infocom.hyperlib.sjsu.edu/blog/mapping-info-200-assignments-to-core-competencies/

I was literally just looking this up! Here’s a link from APA that says they are no longer required for student work unless specified by the instructor…
https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/running-head#:~:text=For%20students%2C%20the%20running%20head,version%20of%20your%20paper%20title.

Good luck, Erin!

Hi @smurray – the abstract should tell the reader a bit more about the whole paper, including your discussion and findings.

@smurray, I had the same experience. Saving the Abstract for last, when I started writing it I noticed I was restating the first chunk of my intro (talking about who my community is). So what I did was cut all that back – now the first sentence or two of my Abstract restates the whole of my Intro. Hope that helps.