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APA Style Guidelines
Basic Rules for Formatting a Paper
Formatting a table
Charts and tables are used in academic papers to facilitate understanding
of complex information. They are not meant to replace text.
- Try to keep all tables the same size.
- Align the tables professionally on the page. Look for balance.
- Use the same format in the table: font size and style; color, depth,
and boundaries.
- Use an appropriate heading for the table.
- Number each table in order starting fromTable 1.
- Include the sample size (as appropriate).
Example
Overall Skills Levels
The first research question asked “How do AUI faculty rank AUI
students in various skills areas?” In order to answer this question,
faculty ranking of student skills and the importance of those skills
to their teaching were quantified as follows:
Table 1: Quantification of faculty rankings
Faculty Ranking of Student Academic Skills
|
Faculty Ranking of Importance of Student Academic Skills |
| Excellent = 5 |
Extremely important = 5 |
| Good = 4 |
Very important = 4 |
| Average = 3 |
Important = 3 |
| Weak = 2 |
Somewhat important = 2 |
| Poor = 1 |
Not important = 1 |
Thus it was possible to tabulate an average ranking of student skills
across the university as a whole and across schools. It was also possible
to tabulate average rankings of the importance of those skills, again
across the university, and across schools.
Table 2: Ranking of student academic skills by faculty
| Asking Questions |
3.7 |
Asking Questions |
3.9 |
| Computer Skills |
3.7 |
Listening to Lectures |
3.9 |
| Listening to Lectures |
3.5 |
Computer Skills |
3.8 |
| Speaking |
3.4 |
Collaborative Learning |
3.7 |
| Test-Taking |
3.4 |
Speaking |
3.6 |
| Collaborative Learning |
3.4 |
Ethics |
3.6 |
| Ethics |
3.2 |
Test-Taking |
3.5 |
| Reading Texts |
3.1 |
Reading Texts |
3.3 |
| Notetaking from Lectures |
3.1 |
Notetaking from Texts |
3.3 |
| Notetaking from Texts |
3.1 |
Notetaking from Lectures |
3.2 |
| Independent Learning |
3.0 |
Time Management |
3.1 |
| Writing Papers |
2.9 |
Independent Learning |
2.9 |
| Time Management |
2.9 |
Writing Papers |
2.9 |
| Average |
3.3 |
Average |
3.4 |
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