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Video Transcripts: Course Paper Template: Downloading and Using the Template

• Academic Paragraphs: Examples of the MEAL Plan
• Academic Paragraphs: Appropriate Use of Explicit Transitions
• Academic Paragraphs: Types of Transitions Part 1: Transitions Between Paragraphs
• Academic Paragraphs: Types of Transitions Part 2: Transitions Within Paragraphs
• Academic Writing for Multilingual Students: Using a Grammar Revision Journal
• Academic Writing for Multilingual Students: Write in a Linear Structure
• Academic Writing for Multilingual Students: Cite All Ideas That Come From Other Sources
• Academic Writing for Multilingual Students: Developing Your Arguments With Evidence and Your Own Analysis
• Academic Writing for Multilingual Students: Follow Faculty Expectations
• Accessing Modules: Registered or Returning Users
• Accessing Modules: Saving a Module Certificate
• Analyzing & Synthesizing Sources: Analysis in Paragraphs
• Analyzing & Synthesizing Sources: Synthesis: Definition and Examples
• Analyzing & Synthesizing Sources: Synthesis in Paragraphs
• APA Formatting & Style: Latin Abbreviations
• APA Formatting & Style: Shortening Citations With et al.
• APA Formatting & Style: Capitalization
• APA Formatting & Style: Numbers
• APA Formatting & Style: Pronouns (Point of View)
• APA Formatting & Style: Serial Comma
• APA Formatting & Style: Lists
• APA Formatting & Style: Verb Tense
• Commonly Cited Sources: Finding DOIs for Journal Article Reference Entries
• Commonly Cited Sources: Journal Article With URL
• Commonly Cited Sources: Book Reference Entries
• Commonly Cited Sources: Webpage Reference Entry
• Course Paper Template: A Tour of the Template
• Crash Course in Scholarly Writing
• Crash Course in the Writing Process
• Crash Course in Punctuation for Scholarly Writing
• Engaging Writing: Overview of Tools for Engaging Readers
• Engaging Writing: Tool 1--Syntax
• Engaging Writing: Tool 2--Sentence Structure
• Engaging Writing: Tool 3--Punctuation
• Engaging Writing: Avoiding Wordiness and Redundancy
• Engaging Writing: Avoiding Casual Language
• Engaging Writing: Incorporating Transitions
• Engaging Writing: Examples of Incorporating Transitions
• Grammar for Academic Writers: Advanced Subject–Verb Agreement
• Grammar for Academic Writers: Verb Tense Consistency
• Mastering the Mechanics: Pronoun Tips #1 and #2
• Mastering the Mechanics: Pronoun Tip #3
• Mastering the Mechanics: Pronoun Tip #4
• Mastering the Mechanics: Nouns
• Mastering the Mechanics: Introduction to Verbs
• Mastering the Mechanics: Articles
• Mastering the Mechanics: Modifiers
• Mastering the Mechanics: Proofreading for Grammar
• Mastering the Mechanics: Punctuation as Symbols
• Mastering the Mechanics: Semicolons
• Mastering the Mechanics: Common Verb Errors
• Mastering the Mechanics: Helping Verbs
• Mastering the Mechanics: Past Tense
• Mastering the Mechanics: Present Tense
• Mastering the Mechanics: Future Tense
• Mastering the Mechanics: Apostrophes
• Mastering the Mechanics: Colons
• Mastering the Mechanics: Commas
• Mastering the Mechanics: Periods
• Methods to the Madness: Authors in a Reference Entry
• Methods to the Madness: Publication Date in a Reference Entry
• Methods to the Madness: Title in a Reference Entry
• Methods to the Madness: Publication Information in a Reference List Entry
• Methods to the Madness: Creating a Citation From a Reference Entry
• Methods to the Madness: Why Do Writers Use Citation Styles?
• Methods to the Madness: Why Does Walden Use APA Style?
• Module Preview: Avoiding Passive Plagiarism
• Module Preview: Basic Citation Formatting
• Module Preview: Book Reference Entries
• Module Preview: Essential Components and Purpose of APA Reference Entries
• Module Preview: Basic Citation Frequency
• Module Preview: Journal Article Reference Entries
• Module Preview: Web Page Reference Entries
• Module Preview: Introduction to APA Style
• Module Preview: Avoiding Bias
• Module Preview: Clarifying the Actor
• Module Preview: Emphasis and Specification
• Module Preview: Using and Formatting APA Headings
• Module Preview: Listing the Facts
• Module Preview: Introduction to Paragraph Development
• Module Preview: Transitions Within and Between Paragraphs
• Module Preview: Introduction to Scholarly Writing
• myPASS: Navigating myPASS
• myPASS: Making a Paper Review Appointment
• OLD myPASS: Making an Appointment
• myPASS: Joining a Waiting List
• myPASS: Attaching a File
• myPASS: Attaching a File at a Later Time
• myPASS: Updating an Appointment Form
• myPASS: Download Your Reviewed Paper From the Writing Center
• myPASS: Canceling an Appointment
• Nontraditional Sources: Course Videos
• Nontraditional Sources: Textual Course Materials
• Nontraditional Sources: Citing Yourself
• Nontraditional Sources: Works With the Same Author and Year
• Nontraditional Sources: Secondary Sources
• Nontraditional Sources: Ebooks
• Nontraditional Sources: Chapter in an Edited Book
• Nontraditional Sources: Discussion Board Posts
• Nontraditional Sources: Dissertations or Theses
• Nontraditional Sources: Citing Sources With the Same Author and Year
• Nontraditional Sources: Personal Communications
• Nontraditional Sources: Basic Entry for Nontraditional Sources
• Paper Reviews: Insider Tips for Writing Center Paper Review Appointments
• Paraphrasing Strategies: Comparing Paraphrasing and Quoting
• Paraphrasing Strategies: Paraphrasing Strategies
• Paraphrasing Strategies: Paraphrasing Example
• Paraphrasing Strategies: Paraphrasing Process Demonstration
• Structuring Sentences: Misplaced Modifiers
• Structuring Sentences: Dangling Modifiers
• Structuring Sentences: Types of Sentences
• Structuring Sentences: Simple Sentences
• Structuring Sentences: Compound Sentences
• Structuring Sentences: Complex Sentences
• Structuring Sentences: Combining Sentences
• Common Error: Unclear Subjects
• Structuring Sentences: Common Error--Run-On Sentences
• Structuring Sentences: Common Error--Fragments
• Structuring Sentences: Common Error--Subject–Verb Agreement
• Common Error: Parallel Structure
• Summarizing Sources: Definition and Examples of Summary
• Summarizing Sources: Incorporating Citations Into Summaries
• Template Demonstration: Correcting Common Errors in the Template Table of Contents
• Template Demonstration: Updating the Template List of Tables
• Using & Crediting Sources: Why We Cite: Examples
• Using & Crediting Sources: How We Cite
• Using & Crediting Sources: What We Cite
• Using & Crediting Sources: How Often We Cite Sources
• Using & Crediting Sources: How Often We Cite Sources: Examples
• Using & Crediting Sources: Citing Paraphrases
• Using & Crediting Sources: Citing Quotations
• Using & Crediting Sources: Publication Year Quick Tip
• Using Quotations: Integrating Quotations in the Middle of a Sentence
• Using Quotations: When to Use a Quotation
• Using Quotations: Shortening Quotations With Ellipses
• Using Quotations: How to Cite a Quotation
• Welcome to the Writing Center, Undergraduate Students!
• Writing Center Website Tour
• Website Tour: For Multilingual Students
• Welcome to the Writing Center, Master’s Students!
• Welcome to the Writing Center: Coursework to Capstone: Writing Center Support for Doctoral Students
• Writing Tools: Using a Dictionary for Grammatical Accuracy: Countability, Transitivity, and Collocations
• Applying Feedback to Your Paper: Grammar Feedback
• Applying Feedback to Your Paper: Applying Feedback Principles
• Applying Feedback to Your Paper: Paragraph Feedback
• Applying Feedback to Your Paper: Thesis Statement Feedback
• Applying Feedback to Your Paper: Transition Feedback
• Applying Feedback to Your Paper: Word Choice Feedback
• Prewriting Demonstrations: Mindmapping
• Prewriting Demonstrations: Outlining
• Form and Style: Welcome, Doctoral Capstone Students!
• Faculty Voices: Faculty Introduction: Dr. Darci Harland
• Faculty Voices: Faculty Introduction: Dr. Catherine Kelly
• Faculty Voices: Faculty Introduction: Dr. Allyson Wattley Gee
• Faculty Voices: Faculty Introduction: Dr. Laurel Walsh
• Faculty Voices: Faculty Introduction: Dr. Kim Critchlow
• Faculty Voices: What Is Academic Integrity?
• Faculty Voices: Why Is Academic Integrity Important?
• Faculty Voices: What Causes and Can Prevent Plagiarism? Inexperience Parapharsing
• Faculty Voices: What Causes and Can Prevent Plagiarism? Using Resources
• Faculty Voices: What Causes and Can Prevent Plagiarism? Time Management
• Faculty Voices: What Causes and Can Prevent Plagiarism? Critical Reading Strategies
• Faculty Voices: What Causes and Can Prevent Plagiarism? Insufficient Understanding
• Faculty Voices: How Does Academic Integrity Relate to Students' Professional Lives? With Dr. Allyson Wattley Gee
• Faculty Voices: How Does Academic Integrity Relate to Students' Professional Lives? With Dr. Kim Critchlow
• Faculty Voices: How Does Academic Integrity Relate to Students' Professional Lives? With Dr. Gregory Campbell
• Faculty Voices: How Does Academic Integrity Relate to Students' Professional Lives? With Dr. Catherine Kelly, Dr. Allyson Wattley Gee, and Dr. Kim Critchlow
• Faculty Voices: How Does Academic Integrity Relate to Students' Professional Lives? With Dr. Darci Harland
• Plagiarism Detection & Revision Skills: Plagiarism Examples: Insufficient Citation Frequency
• Plagiarism Detection & Revision Skills: Plagiarism Examples: Insufficient Paraphrasing
• Plagiarism Detection & Revision Skills: Types of Plagiarism: Overt Plagiarism
• Plagiarism Detection & Revision Skills: Types of Plagiarism: Passive Plagiarism
• Plagiarism Detection & Revision Skills: Types of Plagiarism: Self-Plagiarism
• Plagiarism Detection & Revision Skills: What Is Plagiarism?
• Plagiarism Detection & Revision Skills: A Writing Process for Avoiding Plagiarism
• Writing Process: Writing Motivation:
• Writing for Social Change: With Dr. Catherine Kelly
• Writing for Social Change: With Dr. Gregory Campbell
• Writing for Social Change: How Are Writing and Social Change Connected?
• Writing for Social Change: With Dr. Laurel Walsh
• Writing for Social Change: With Dr. Allyson Wattley Gee
• Transitioning Rrom APA 6 to APA 7 With the Walden Writing Center
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Course Paper Template: Downloading and Using the Template

Last updated: 11/14/2020

Visual: The words “Walden University Writing Center” and the Walden University Writing Center logo on a blank page of a notebook with a pencil. The slogan “Your writing, grammar, and APA experts” appears. The screen shifts to present the words “Course Paper Template” with the title “Downloading and Using the Template” underneath.

Audio: Music plays.

Visual: The Walden University Writing Center webpage “Walden Templates: General Templates” is open in a browser window. The screen scrolls down to show Undergraduate Course Paper Templates and Graduate Course Paper Templates.

Audio: The Writing Center provides course paper templates for undergraduate and graduate courses. There are a few versions of the course paper template—without abstract, with abstract, and with advice. You can use whichever template fits your needs. For this demonstration, I will download the course paper template with abstract for graduate courses.

Visual: The cursor clicks on the link that reads, “APA Course Template (7th Ed.).”

Audio: To download the template, click the link. Your web browser may prompt you to open or save the template. Choose the option to save the Word document to your computer.

Visual: The cursor moves to the Downloads icon in the web browser and clicks to open the file. Microsoft Word opens on the screen with the template title page. The cursor moves to “File” in the upper left hand corner of the screen and then clicks on “Save As.” A pop-up window appears for saving the file. The cursor moves to the file name and types in “Paper Assignment 1” and then choose the Documents folder for the location. The pop-up window disappears and the template title page is visible again.

Audio: Check your downloads folder or search your computer for “Course Paper Template” to find the file if your web browser does not provide you a pop-up link to the file. You may also check the downloads area in your web browser.

When you first open the file to work on an assignment, you may wish to “Save As” immediately and rename the file as well as choose a different location on your computer.

Some students find it useful to use the template as a guide for formatting their own Word documents. Others prefer to write their assignments in a separate Word document and then copying and pasting the text into the template. Our recommendation at the Writing Center is to write directly in a clean copy of the course paper template for each assignment.

The template shows you the formatting requirements you need to follow for your coursework assignments as well as examples of APA-formatted title pages, abstracts, headings, and reference entries.

If you find that the template’s formatting is changed or becomes corrupted and you cannot fix the errors, you can always download a clean version of the template from our website and start over. The template is available to you as a tool and is meant to save you time and give you guidance, so use it in whatever way makes the most sense to you.

Visual: The email address [email protected] appears on the screen.

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