How Do You Write An APA Style Abstract?
An abstract is a concise, but complete summary of a paper. It allows the reader the opportunity to know what your paper is about quickly. Titles of papers (and their abstracts) are used by information services to catalog and retrieve papers. You spent a great deal of time researching and writing your paper and now you want your abstract page to be in the correct format. Here are the steps to get you there. Step one – make sure you are using a standard size paper (8 ½” X 11″). And the paper should be white. No other color will do. The weight of the paper is up to you. I prefer 24 pound. It is slightly heavier and less flimsy. Step two – set your margins for one inch all around. Step three – set your font for Times New Roman, Courier New, or Bookman Old Style. Do not ever use fancy fonts. This is not the time to be creative. This is a case of follow the leader. It will certainly not lose you points. Special note: 95% of the time Times New Roman is used so it would probably be the best fo
