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Please complete this tutorial as required by your professor. When you're finished, download your Certificate of Completion and upload it to Canvas:
How-To Research Tutorial for EDU 539 Success
This tutorial will help you with:
We also have a quick tutorial called APA-Tips & Tricks that shows you what an APA formatted paper looks like and information about in-text citations.
If you have any questions or are having issues with access, please contact the library at library@niagara.edu and a librarian will be happy to help you. This tutorial should be taken on a laptop or desktop computer.
Citations can be daunting, but we've got you covered!
For the most in depth look at APA citations, visit Purdue OWL's APA Citation Formatting page.
Our citation software, NoodleTools, is completely free to use through NU and will help you organize your citations and even create your Reference List for you!
Watch NU's NoodleTools YouTube playlist below to get set up!
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