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Yes, this is academic writing. It is an online course. The assignment is to write a paper using APA style. Students are given websites on APA writing style. No writing centre, no TA. Ok,I get it. This forum is not for learning.

I am asking for help, not with my homework, I didn't ask anyone here to write the paper for me. I am asking for guidance on how to paraphrase the 2 sentences. I did attempt to paraphrase myself and was told it is not correct so I asked for help to paraphrase the two sentences so that I can learn from that example. Teaching oneself means learning from examples, tutorials, unfortunately, there are plenty of sites on APA writing styles, but I can't seem to paraphrase it right. I am glad the people here that tells me that my paraphrase is wrong. If I have posted on some "non-grad" forum, they would probably say my paraphrase is fine. And I google and could not find an appropriate forum where people are willing to teach, this forum came up, there is a folder on "Writing, Presenting, Publishing" so I thought I may find help here. Ok, I got you, this forum will not help - I don't need you to help me with my homework. Please don't give me the fish, please teach me how to fish.

Regarding #2, thanks for letting me know the above is still quoting directly. That is tough. I'll probably just use quotation marks then, if I can't paraphrase. At this time, it looks I have difficulty paraphrasing. Anyone who wants to paraphrase based on the original text earlier would be appreciated, at least I get to see what a paraphrase is like. I attempted to paraphrase using that Sherlock example and I did not succeed I will keep your comments about "directly quote two entire sentences from the source" in mind. I wanted to give a definition of perceptual learning, those two sentences provides the definition and I was trying to write it.

I did say I am writing a paper and I need some help in writing. I don't need a website, I can find plenty of websites on APA styles. I need a forum where I can get guidance from people with experience and willing to teach/share. From your reply, it does not sounds like TheGradCafe is a place to seek help on writing APA style papers, if you know a forum that provides help in writing papers (like questions that I asked earlier, I can do my own homework, I just need to know if I'm on the right track), please let me know.

ibid is not APA style. I'm supposed to write in APA style

The process by which the ability of sensory systems to respond to stimuli is improved through experience is known as perceptual learning (Holmes, 2014, pp. 32–33). Homes (2014) further states that perceptual learning occurs through sensory interaction with the environment and through practice in performing specific sensory tasks (pp. 32–33). Is this ok?

I took some short cuts, not taking the rules of quotation/paraphrase as I wanted to know if the cite is done one time or two times. Quotation: "Perceptual learning, process by which the ability of sensory systems to respond to stimuli is improved through experience" (Cold, 2001, p. 31). Cold (2001) further found that "perceptual learning occurs through sensory interaction with the environment as well as through practice in performing specific sensory tasks" (p.35) This looks like citing "two times", is that ok?

I am writing a paper for psychology and I need some help on APA guidelines, specifically on in-text citation. Suppose a certain book xxxxx has the following: "Perceptual learning, process by which the ability of sensory systems to respond to stimuli is improved through experience. Perceptual learning occurs through sensory interaction with the environment as well as through practice in performing specific sensory tasks. The changes that take place in sensory and perceptual systems as a result of perceptual learning occur at the levels of behaviour and physiology. Examples of perceptual learning include developing an ability to distinguish between different odours or musical pitches and an ability to discriminate between different shades of colours." Suppose I want to use the first two sentence. Which of the following two methods are the correct way of citing? Method (1): Perceptual learning, process by which the ability of sensory systems to respond to stimuli is improved through experience. Perceptual learning occurs through sensory interaction with the environment as well as through practice in performing specific sensory tasks (xxxxx, 2016). Method (2): Perceptual learning, process by which the ability of sensory systems to respond to stimuli is improved through experience (xxxxx, 2016). Perceptual learning occurs through sensory interaction with the environment as well as through practice in performing specific sensory tasks (xxxxx, 2016). I am taking two sentences, do I cite two times at the end of each sentence or do I cite one time at the end of the last sentence?