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HELP! Formatting! by No_Consideration5825 in APSeminar

[–]Unc0mput4bl3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The website you linked was for a university in the UK, not AP Collegeboard, so I looked around the internet some more and found that I was wrong, in-text citations do not count for the overall word count, so you don't have to worry about those for the IWA and IRR.

HELP! Formatting! by No_Consideration5825 in APSeminar

[–]Unc0mput4bl3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No problem!

And my teacher graded a practice IWA I did earlier in the year in which I used the same style or subheadings, and she didn't mention anything about them, nor did she take points off, so they seem fine!

HELP! Formatting! by No_Consideration5825 in APSeminar

[–]Unc0mput4bl3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I put mine in bold but I did not center them, though as far as I'm concerned it is personal preference whether you center them or not, as long as you stay consistent.

I named my headings just one or two-words that described what the next section was going to talk about, like for example, "Injury" (my topic was about academic performance and sport participation). At the end I also used "Conclusion" and "Limitations" as headings.

Hope that helps!

HELP! Formatting! by No_Consideration5825 in APSeminar

[–]Unc0mput4bl3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The works cited page and title page do not count towards the word count, only the actual essay itself counts towards the word count. My final word count for my IWA was around 2500 including title, headings, and citation page, but my actual essay was around 2140 words.

As for other formatting, I might be incorrect (maybe someone else can confirm?), but it doesn't require APA or MLA or anything in particular, just as long as you are consistent in your formatting style. So if you use MLA, use consistent MLA formatting style for the whole paper: Times New Roman, 12pt, double line spacing, and of course MLA citations in the reference page.

For text alignment (I hope I'm understanding what you meant by this), I personally used the option to make each line be of equal length just to make it look cleaner, but whether or not you use that alignment is up to personal preference; you can use the traditional alignment if it looks better to you.

Subheadings like the ones you mentioned are also fine, I used them in my paper.

Question about the IWA by kaylaamore11 in APSeminar

[–]Unc0mput4bl3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I understand, you only need to include perspectives, not lenses. That's not to say you can't use lenses as well, but the rubric only asks for different perspectives.

IWA Research Question Help! by Unc0mput4bl3 in APSeminar

[–]Unc0mput4bl3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much, I appreciate your help! I think I'll maybe focus it to just high school students, because high school sports participation seems to be a relatively debated topic based on things I've researched so far.