The PERRLA Add-in can create Research Papers and Discussion Posts in APA, MLA, and Turabian formats.
What is a Discussion Post?
Discussion Posts are APA, MLA, or Turabian formatted papers tailored for your class's online forums and discussion boards.
Discussion Posts include a short title, the paper's body, and a reference section on a single page. This makes it easy to copy and paste your paper's content into a discussion forum in one step.
Discussion Posts do not include a separate title section, table of contents, or abstract. However, you still have access to the same reference, citation, table, figure, and heading features.
What is a Research Paper?
Research Papers are the traditional paper type PERRLA has been helping students create for over 25 years.
Research Papers include a title page, the paper's body, and a separate References page. They can also include a table of contents, abstract, and annotations. You can add references, citations, tables, figures, and headings to any Research Paper.
Research Paper types in APA 7
APA 7 includes two types of Research Paper: Student Papers and Professional Papers. PERRLA supports both.
Learn more about the differences between Student and Professional papers.
Anything else to know?
Discussion Posts are still PERRLA papers and work the same way as Research Papers.
All papers created with PERRLA are standard Word documents that you can save, print, and share with your classmates or professor.