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This set of templates assists you to organize the minimally proficient APA formatting and content elements of your OL211 final project and milestone.

Students are encouraged to extend and adapt the content to fit their ideas and their instructor’s guidance to reach exemplary rubric scoring. Always review the assignment description and rubric before beginning any assignment! titles) and milestone divider pages before submitting your milestones or final project.

Use the author-date method of citation by inserting the surname of the author and the year of publication at the appropriate point in the text. Citations used in the body of your publication identify the source of information. In-text parenthetical citations are used to give credit to the authors whose ideas or thoughts are used within the document. These internal citations allow the reader to identify the source and locate the information being addressed.

APA requires you to include the publication year because APA users are concerned with the date of the article (the more current the better). APA uses a system that includes the author’s last name and the year of publication when you are paraphrasing another’s work.

Example: (Small, 2009).

However, for directly quoted citations one would use a format of (author, publication year, pg #) for books and journal articles (including those online) or (author, publication year, para #) for websites and blogs.

Example: (Small, 2009, p. 23).

Sources may include books and book chapters, journal or magazine articles, dissertations and theses, conference papers, government reports, films, websites, blogs and wikis, discussion boards, personal communications, and more.

Citations for Paraphrased Information  

If you are paraphrasing a source (Stating its ideas in your own words), APA encourages you to include page numbers.

Example: Beginning of a sentence

Krankenstein (2006) reported that empirical research was identified.

Example: Middle of a sentence

After looking into the issue, Lynch (2007) quit.

Example: End of a sentence:

The report concluded were victims of cyberterrorism (Windhorst, 2004).

Note: If an article has three to five authors, write out all of the authors’ names the first time they appear. Then use the first author’s last name followed by “et al.”

For more information on APA in-text citation and when to use them review http://libguides.snhu.edu/c.php?g=157152&p=2052916

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·        Delete this textbox before submitting milestones and final project.

·        Include a new cover page at each milestone and the final project submission

Reminders…

·        Delete this textbox when submitting milestones and final project.

·        Include a new cover page at each milestone and the final project submission

·        To begin adding content to this template simply click and type over each section in red

·        Suggested minimal materials to use in completing your assignment:

o   Managing Human Resources, Section 8.1: Performance Management Systems through Section 8.1a (pp. 300–303); Section 8.2a: What Are the Performance Standards? (pp. 306–308); Section 8.2c: Who Should Appraise an Employee’s Performance? and Section 8.2d: Putting It All Together: 360-Degree Evaluations (pp. 310–313); and Section 8.3: Performance Evaluation Methods (pp. 317–327).

o   Performance Management: Which performance rating scale is best, and what should an employer consider in adopting a performance rating scale? Available at https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/tools-and-samples/hr-qa/pages/whattodowhendevelopingperfratescales.aspx

Reminders…

·        Delete this textbox when submitting milestones and final project.

·        Include a new cover page at each milestone and the final project submission

·        To begin adding content to this template simply click and type over each section in red

·        Suggested minimal materials to use in completing your assignment:

o   Managing Human Resources, Sections 9.1: What is Compensation? and 9.2a: Linking Compensation to Organizational Objectives (pp. 344–348); Section 9.3: Compensation Design–The Pay Mix through Section 9.3b: External Factors (pp. 354–360); Section 9.5a: Wage and Salary Surveys (pp. 363–364); and Section 11.3: Work-Life Discretionary Benefits (pp. 437–449).

Reminders…

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·        Cite the sources of data, paraphrasing and ideas within the text using APA 6’s “author-date” method and include a References section for this milestone.

·        Does your milestone need an Appendix, Tables or Charts?

·        Refer to the assignment description and rubric in Brightspace. Did you miss anything?

·        See end of this template document for guidance on the above items.

Reminders…

·        Delete this textbox when submitting milestones and final project.

·        Include a new cover page at each milestone and the final project submission

·        To begin adding content to this template simply click and type over each section in red

·        Suggested minimal materials to use in completing your assignment:

o   Managing Human Resources, Sections 9.1: What is Compensation? and 9.2a: Linking Compensation to Organizational Objectives (pp. 344–348); Section 9.3: Compensation Design–The Pay Mix through Section 9.3b: External Factors (pp. 354–360); Section 9.5a: Wage and Salary Surveys (pp. 363–364); and Section 11.3: Work-Life Discretionary Benefits (pp. 437–449).

·        Delete this textbox when submitting milestones and final project.

·        Not all papers require an Appendix.

·        Tables, charts, graphics and financial reporting elements should go in the appendix

·        The above resources should be titled, numbered, and cited similar to the examples below.

·        Begin your appendix on a new page with the word appendix in the top center.

·        The first paragraph of the appendix should flush with the left margin. Additional paragraphs should be indented.

·        Each table or figure should be on its own page.

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