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intermediate · 4 minutes

Can You Explain That Differently?

You are leading a freshman writing workshop. A student is still confused about APA in-text citations and says your first explanation did not click. Your goal is to reformulate using a different structure, wording, or example instead of repeating yourself.

Objective

Reformulating After Non-Understanding

Give a substantively different second explanation with a concrete example, not a repeated version of the first explanation.

Success criteria: The ITA provides a genuinely different second explanation with a new structure or example and helps the student track the APA pattern.

Example Phrases
  • Let me try that a different way. Think of it as a simple formula.
  • Here is a concrete example using a made-up source and sentence.
  • In APA, the year goes with the author right away, then details depend on sentence structure.
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