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Sample APA Paper for Students Interested in Learning APA Style
Before getting started you will notice some things about this paper. First, everything is
double-spaced. Second, margins are 1-inch wide on all sides. Third, there are several headings
used throughout to separate different parts of the paper; some of the headings are in bold. Fourth,
there is exactly one space after each punctuation mark (except for periods at the end of a
sentence, after which there are two spaces). Fifth, the upper left of each page has a running head
in all capital letters, and the upper right has the page number. Try to pay attention to all of these
details as you look through this paper.
Now that those details are out of the way, you should know that this first part of the paper
is called the “Introduction” section, yet it does not have a heading that actually says
“Introduction.” Instead, the title of the paper is typed at the top of the first page (be sure to center
the title, but do not put it in bold). In this section you would often start with a topic paragraph
that introduces the problem under study. The importance of the topic should be pretty clear from
the first paragraph or two of the Introduction. Section 2.05 of the APA manual (APA, 2010) will
help give you some ideas about how to write this.
The bulk of the Introduction section is background literature on the topic. Here a
literature review is often very helpful to provide a theoretical or empirical basis for the research.
Try to provide the reader with enough information on the topic to be able to conclude that the
research is important and that the hypotheses are reasonable. Any prior work on the topic would
be useful to include here, although prior work that is most directly related to the hypotheses
would be of greatest value.

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