Academic Writer, the authoritative APA editorial style resource developed by the American Psychological Association, is available to all Rasmussen students, faculty, and staff.  Academic Writer is organized into three sections/tabs:

• Learn 
  • Includes video tutorials and "quick lessons" on all aspects of the APA citation style.
  • Provides examples of references, sample papers, tables, and figures
• Reference
  • ​Includes a citation generator to create APA style references for a variety of resource types
  • Provides storage of all references created or imported into the tool for future use in papers
• Write
  • ​Includes templates for both professional and student papers
  • ​Includes features to automatically insert properly formatted headings, in-text citations, and references lists