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How to Write a Research Paper Presentation Using APA Format?

Making a presentation out of a research paper is likely to be difficult, since it requires heavy restructuring due to its small size, compared to the paper itself. While your paper may be well-balanced and weighed out to convey the full extent of your research work to the reader, a presentation should be much shorter, yet contain all the essential points of your work. The APA standards do not really contain any format guidelines for presentations, but they can still be of help as a reference, since the presentation is very likely to contain elements of a paper, which fall under the same rules of formatting. For example, some number of direct and indirect citations is possible to be needed for your presentation. Also, the APA helps with the tips on how to avoid cases of plagiarism with images, data, ideas and videos. Here are some advice on how to write a research paper presentation using APA format:

• Provide citations for text.

  All the sources you have used your data from should be mentioned in the way they are mentioned in a regular research paper. Write the author’s last name and the date of publication in ellipses, after every mentioning of the information you have used in your presentation that you have borrowed from somebody. If it is a direct quote, add a page number after the name and date, like so: (Milford, 1965, p. 132).

• Cite information you have obtained for tables.

  If you are inserting tables into presentations, you should cite the information by adding the author’s name and date of publication in ellipses directly below the presented table. If the table is composed by another author entirely, also add the page numbers, where the table came from.

• Provide sources of any videos, pictures and charts.

  When inserting a video, an image, or a graphic chart, include information about the origin of the material below it, mentioning the name of the source and year of publication, formatting it along the regular guidelines of APA format for research papers.

• Add a reference page.

  Just like with your research paper, you can create a page with references to all your external materials, using APA format. It is possible to use a smaller font, but don’t make it too small. If it is possible, consider hyper-linking all the citations to the actual sources online, so that the reader of the presentation could reference the material directly.

Following these simple guidelines, you will be able to make your presentation much more professional and concrete, and to provide your readers or listeners with more needed information.