Tips on How to Get Straight A’s in College

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In my CC and on Study.com, APA wasn't that big of a deal, so I didn't know that I was making lots of mistakes with APA until I started my capstone.  I was lucky that my professor was patient, and I was still receiving grades in the '90s even though there were errors with my APA.

TESU recommends Purdue Owl as an APA resource:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_...ction.html

Citation Machine was also useful to me though you still have to learn all the exceptions to the different rules and sometimes it will make mistakes.
https://www.citationmachine.net/

Another thing that helps is to get organized and write a schedule of due dates, so you don't turn in assignments late.  This can be done on Google Calendar or a spreadsheet.

1) I  highly suggest investing in Grammarly or readability.
2) Layout your paper sections using the rubric framework, then write each section according to the step-by-step instructions.
3) Recheck for cohesiveness
4) Submit and wait for your A OR A+

Writing is an important skill and academic writing is a very structured approach.  Tools like Grammarly are designed to help transition people up the ladder and I've seen some good results with people using it as a learning tool, not just as a glorified spell-checker.  As for the APA method, I'm in favor of any useful learning tool.  I don't think there's any real value in memorizing all those rules and exceptions (although you do memorize a lot of it if you use it frequently.)  I think that another benefit of the learning tools is that it helps you in reading academic essays and research and you come to appreciate good academic writing as well as bad academic writing.