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One of the biggest and most repetitive mistakes that I made in my summaries was using a wrong APA reference. Originally I referred to an online APA generator. After speaking to professor Beach, I learned to refer to the APA reference for an electronic book shown in the Little Seagull handbook for most of the sources. My first two summaries did not have a full thesis so I created a thesis for each summary. My first two summaries also had a few unnecessary quotes that should’ve been paraphrased. In my second summary, I used a double citation when quoting another author. After learning that I should not quote another author’s work that I did not individually read, I changed the citation and included the citation from the author of the article

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