A Semi-Detailed Demonstration Lesson Plan in Practical Research 1

Content: Learning from Others and Reviewing the Literature

Content Standard: The learner demonstrates understanding of:
(1) the criteria in selecting, citing, and synthesizing related literature;
(2) ethical standards in writing related literature.

Performance Standard: The learner is able to:

(1) select, cite, and synthesize properly related literature;
(2) use sources according to ethical standards; and,
(3) present written review of related literature.

Learning Competency: The learner cites related literature using the standard style
(APA, MLA, or Chicago Manual Style).

Lesson: Writing In-text Citations Correctly using the APA Style

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
1. use writing conventions to acknowledge sources;
2. write in-text citations in APA style; and,
3. familiarize with Google Scholar as an online tool for selecting and citing related
literature.

Learning Resources:
[1] Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/
[2] HumberLibraries. (2020, May 19). APA 7th in Minutes: In-text Citations [Video].
YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXn2UITEqlo
[3] PennState University Libraries. (2019). APA Quick Citation Guide.
https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/apaquickguide/quiz

[4] PowerPoint Presentation

[5] Purdue University. (2020). In-text Citations: The Basics. The Writing Lab.
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_
guide/in_text_citations_the_basics.html

[6] Quizalize https://www.quizalize.com/

LEARNING ACTIVTIES
Procedure
A. Preliminary Activities
Greetings
Good morning, class!

Prayer
Let us start the class with a prayer. May I request (name of student) to lead the prayer.

Checking of Attendance
Okay, next, I will check the attendance. Please say “Present” if you are here.
 Review
Now class, let us review our previous lesson. I have prepared an activity using the
Quizalize. I will call five volunteer students who will answer the items in the activity.
Who among you would like to participate? Alright, let’s start.

B. Lesson Development
1. Activity
Alright, class, you can see on the slide presentation some Facebooks posts. What
do you notice? Yes, that’s correct – CTTO. It stands for “Credit to the owner”. We usually
see posts on social media with CTTO at the end. That means the right author of the
original post is not given the proper credit.
What can be our takeaway from the activity? In this activity, we are reminded that
just like on social media, we have to look for reliable sources to cite in writing our research
paper. By doing so, we acknowledge our sources and establish honesty along the
process. Hence, we avoid plagiarism.
With that said, our lesson for today is about writing the correct in-text citations in
our research paper using the APA style.
2. Analysis
Before we proceed to our lesson, let us first watch the following video by Humber
Libraries that briefly explains the in-text citation using APA 7. What is the difference
between parenthetical in-text citation and narrative in-text citation?
3. Abstraction
Now, class, let’s proceed to the discussion of important concepts in our lesson.
APA is the style of documentation of sources used by the American Psychological
Association. This form of writing research papers is used mainly in the social sciences,
like psychology, anthropology, sociology, as well as education and other fields.
Include an in-text citation when you refer to, summarize, paraphrase, or quote from
another source. For every in-text citation in your paper, there must be a corresponding
entry in your reference list.
When using APA format, follow the author-date method of in-text citation. You can
also use a signal phrase which includes according to, acknowledges/acknowledged,
adds/added, addresses/addressed, argues/argued, asserts/asserted,
comments/commented, concedes/conceded.
Next, if you are directly quoting from a work, you will need to include the author,
year of publication, and page number for the reference (preceded by "p." for a single page
and “pp.” for a span of multiple pages, with the page numbers separated by an en dash).
On the other hand, if you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only have to
make reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text reference and may
omit the page numbers.
Do you have any question so far, class?
Okay, then, let’s continue. We can use Google Scholar to search across a wide
variety of disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, among others. By using it, we
can easily access the citation for each work in our preferred style.

4. Application
This time, we will have a group activity. So, you will be grouped in three. Each
group will be assigned with a task related to writing in-text citations.
Group 1: Write in-text citations for works with 1 author.
 Group 2: Write in-text citations for works with 2 authors.
Group 3: Write in-text citations for works with 3 or more authors.
C. Assessment
I. Directions: For numbers 1-3, write T if the statement is correct and F if it is
wrong.

1. An in-text citation is written when you refer to, summarize, paraphrase, or quote
from another source.
2. APA is the style of documentation of sources used by the American Physical
Association.
3. When writing an in-text citation at the end of the paragraph, ampersand (&) is
used.

II. Directions: Write the correct in-text citation for the following:
4-5. Authors: Nation, P., Coady, J.
Year of Publication: 2013
Cited information: Vocabulary knowledge is one of many factors that allows
readers to get information from the text.

D. Assignment
Look for related literature in the research that you are working on using the Google
Scholar. Then, observe the correct formatting of in-text citations in APA style. Be ready
to submit your review of related literature with proper in-text citations next week.

Prepared by:

DAVE FALCULAN
Applicant