Intergovernmental Relations

How to Write a Strong Term Paper

This PowerPoint presentation from Dr. Michael Gershowitz explains how to focus and construct an excellent piece of writing for public administration classes.  Dr. Gershowitz is a professor of public administration, a successful grant writer, and a former journalist.

Microsoft Word has templates to help you prepare papers in APA format.

Here is a set of slides to help you set up APA in Word 2007:

http://www.slideshare.net/mpostphd/creating-a-word-2007-apa-template

Here are the directions for the APA 6th template in Word 2013:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/apa-style-report-6th-edition-TC103982351.aspx

Here are the directions for the APA template in Word 2003 or later:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/apa-paper-format-TC010076323.aspx