...Below is a paper written using APA publication guidelines. This paper includes an example of how to write a title page; examples of how to cite quotes and paraphrases in text; and an example of how to write a reference list. The in-text citations and the reference list include examples of how to cite sources with multiple authors; edited books; web pages, including web pages with no apparent author, publication date, or city; newspaper articles; journal articles; and books with no authors. The in-text citations also include examples of how to cite sources with and without incorporating the author's name and year of publication in the sentence itself; how to refer to the same source more than once in the same paragraph; and how to cite different works by different authors at the same time. You can also read the paper to see examples of when you would need to cite something and when you don't need to. Sometimes students are confused about when they need to cite a source and when they don't need to. One good rule of thumb is: when in doubt, CITE IT. Cite all your quotes. Also cite everything that you paraphrase (a paraphrase is when you borrow another author's ideas or information but say it in your own words). Cite all information and facts that you found from other sources. Cite all ideas that come from other authors. In short, you need to cite almost everything! Don't worry -- you'll get used to it! EXCEPTIONS: you don't need to cite your own opinions. You don't need to...
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...Instructions 1. Plan * 1 Choose the age category of the book you wish to write. Some examples are board books, picture books, easy readers, chapter books or young adult novels. Be aware that each category has its own style, length, complexity, language and voice suited to the age group you are targeting. * 2 Choose a genre within your category. For example, this may be a book about numbers, a mystery or a family story. * * 3 Have a general idea of plot or set of characters you wish to start with and begin building a storyline. Research any topics you need to learn more about. * 4 Create character sketches. Decide how best to do this for your category. You may find it best to produce note cards or pages devoted to details of your characters: physical description, age, likes and dislikes and his or her role in the story. You must also decide the relationships of the characters as they interact with each other. * 5 Create an outline, a step-by-step account of your story. This should include characters, plots, changes in viewpoint, the climax and the ending. 2. Write * 6 Write the beginning. This is often the most difficult part to write but also the most important. The beginning should introduce the characters and give some insight into the plot of your children's book. * 7 Write the middle, or body of the story. Focus on the challenges the characters face and the choices they make. This section is also where...
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...February 11, 2013 Mrs. Margaret Clemmons 762 Buns Parkway, Venice, CA 90028 Dear Mrs. Margaret Clemmons, Thank you for contacting us regarding your recent concern. Union Bank of California has been grateful to assist your needs and is making ongoing efforts to better improve our customer service and the contentment of our clients. We take pride in our duties and have received your request. We share your concerns in conducting thorough checks prior to making our decisions. We identified that you and your husband have joint accounts with our company. It has come to my attention that your debit card was charged multiple times with the different amounts: $23.02, $120.10, and $43.19. Because no receipts were enclosed, we do not have the significant amount of proof to further your request. We have contacted Wilson’s Gourmet. The manager, Rob Reynolds, claims that he has had no problems with his equipment. In addition, he noted that many customers buy items and return later to purchase many items on occasion. This may have been the case. Union bank suggests you contact Wilson Gourmet, to further assist you for any future purchases from this store. If possible the employees may have some recollection as to what you might have purchased from any prior visits. We continue to provide you with strong commitment, and hope Union Bank can endure a positive future relationship with you. We look forward to delivering affirmative work and serving you for forthcoming years. Thank you again...
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...HOW TO WRITE AN EFFECTIVE RESEARCH PAPER • Getting ready with data • First draft • Structure of a scientific paper • Selecting a journal • Submission • Revision and galley proof Disclaimer: The suggestions and remarks in this presentation are based on personal research experience. Research practices and approaches vary. Exercise your own judgment regarding the suitability of the content. –P. Kamat Getting ready with data Gather all important data, analyses, plots and tables Organize results so that they follow a logical sequence (this may or may not be in the order of experiments conducted) Consolidate data plots and create figures for the manuscript (Limit the number of total figures (6-8 is usually a good number). Include additional data, multimedia in the Supporting Information.) Discuss the data with your advisor and note down important points Important: KNOW the focus of your paper It takes a wise man to know whether he has found a ROPE or LOST A MULE. - Anonymous quote ? First draft Identify two or three important findings emerging from the experiments. Make them the central theme of the article. Note good and bad writing styles in the literature. Some are simple and easy to follow, some are just too complex. Note the readership of the journal that you are considering to publish your work Prepare figures, schemes and tables in a professional manner (Pay attention to quantification of data accuracy, significant digits, error bars...
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...another, each manager declared, in effect, that every woman in his group didn’t have the self-confidence needed to be promoted. The division head began to doubt his ears. How could it be that all the talented women in the division suffered from a lack of self-confidence? In all likelihood, they didn’t. Consider the many women who have left large corporations to start their own businesses, obviously exhibiting enough confidence to succeed on their own. Judgments about confidence can be inferred only from the way people present themselves, and much of that presentation is in the form of talk. The CEO of a major corporation told me that he often has to make decisions in five minutes about matters on which others may have worked five months. He said he uses this rule: If the person making the proposal seems confident, the CEO approves it. If not, he says no. This might seem like a reasonable approach. But my field of research, socio-linguistics, suggests otherwise. The CEO obviously thinks he knows what a confident person sounds like. But his judgment, which may be dead right for some people, may be dead wrong for others. Communication isn’t as simple as saying what you mean. How you say what you mean is crucial, and differs from one person to the next, because using language is learned social behavior: How we talk and listen are deeply influenced by cultural experience. Although we might think that our ways of...
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...HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 vii Organization 1 Clarity 11 Word Choice 21 Mechanics 39 Revising, Editing, and Proofreading 55 Untimed Essay Writing Strategies 67 Timed Essay Writing Strategies 85 Sample Essay Prompts and Essays 97 Resources 111 CONTENTS HOW TO WRITE GREAT ESSAYS v Introduction n your preparations for college, you may find yourself facing a handful of high-stakes essays. Your college application requires at least one, and the SAT requires another. Depending upon the high school you attend, or the state you reside in, you may need to write an exit essay, or take the Regents Exam. This book includes specific strategies to help you write great essays, no matter which type you write. In contrast to basic writing guides that contain plenty of information you don’t need, How to Write Great Essays focuses on the topics most important to you now. You won’t find a comprehensive guide to mechanics, but instead you will get short but thorough lessons on the most common errors made in grammar, spelling, usage, and how to prevent and correct these errors. Every chapter is designed to relate directly to your essay, giving you the knowledge and the know-how you need to succeed. The book is divided into seven chapters, with the first five covering different aspects of the writing process: I Introduction ...
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...HOW TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE EDITOR Writing Format and Style 1. Select the topic you intend to write about. Think about the target audience (the readers of the newspaper) 2. Use the salutation “Dear Sir” 3. Include a TITLE 4. State why you are writing the letter a. In response to an article b. In response to another letter c. In response to something that happened to you/you observed d. In response to a recent government policy 5. Tell why this is important - how the problem or issue affects you (as an individual, or as a member of some group) or others [this is the purpose of your letter] 6. Praise or criticize what someone has said or done about the problem/issue 7. State your opinion about what should be done/what you think would work 8. Make a suggestion or general recommendation 9. Be concise and focused – plan what you want to say and don’t wander off the topic 10. Limit your letter to 2-3 paragraphs 11. Use bullet points in the body of the text 12. Use polite, semi-formal, personalized language (I, we, us); everyday vocabulary (think of a 12-year-old reader) 13. Write with active voice sentences 14. Sign the letter with your full name, address, email address and telephone number 15. Revise and edit your first draft a. Check for spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes b. Remove unnecessary content and unnecessary words – 250 - 400 words c. Check the sequence of ideas 16. Find out the editor’s name and address from the editorial page/webpage ...
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...In a professional and educational context, you would need to know how to write different types of texts. One of the most frequent is the essay, the essay is a piece of writing that presents a point of view in an interesting way, in which you can develop different topics depending on your intention. It describes, clarifies, argues, and presents different examples with the purpose of giving support to the author’s point of view. Depending of the writer's intention, there are different types of essays: persuasive, analytical, argumentative and expository. Besides, a good essay develops its idea considering a basic structure composed by three parts: introduction, body and conclusion. In this paper you will learn about the structure of a good essay. Writing an essay needs planning. So, how to write an essay? To write an essay you must to take into account some important aspects: First you have to define the thesis, and ask yourself what is the point you want to make? it is important to have clear arguments to support your thesis, for that, you have to investigate and be sure of what you want to do, you must define what is the purpose of your writing and how you will accomplish it. Then you can create a list of ideas by brainstorming, trying to have a global perspective of your text. After that, you will have clarity about how you could start your essay and how you could organized it. Taking into account this you could start with: The introduction, an essay writer usually fulfills...
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...How to write an essay in English – Some good advice Reading and preparing for writing the essay 1. Make a cursory reading (= at skanne) of the text to in order to find out what the text is about. 2. Read the text more carefully (remember a dictionary). Use a marker to underline what you think is important. Also; write a lot of marginal notes. 3. While reading you should pay attention to some of the following elements: - What is the setting of the short story? (Where, when, the environment) - Who are the main characters, and how can you characterize them? (Age, looks, mentality, etc.) - Do any of the main characters change or develop during the story? This is often the case, and is almost always significant. - What are the main conflicts of the story? In all stories the main character(s) has a problem, or a number of problems, which he/she has to solve. Find out what the problems are in your story. The passages where the conflicts are clear are often important in short stories, and can be used when you quote from the text. - What is the theme(s) of the short story? All short stories are focused on an important theme. This theme must be found and discussed. The Writing Process 1. Make a plan (disposition), before writing your essay! The elements of an English essay will often be: 1. An introduction. In the introduction you give a general introduction to the main theme of the story, and relate it to the story. 2. The analysis of the story. English...
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...1.01 How to write an essay General Advice Start early As soon as you are given an essay question, begin your thinking. If you don't, you might miss useful information whilst doing other research. The television and radio often have programmes on topical issues which could be of use - if you don't already have some ideas for your essay you could miss their usefulness. It is similar to the process when you learn a new word: because you have actually looked it up, it then seems to appear more often. This is because you become more sensitive to it - the same will happen with your essay subject. Starting early also gives you the opportunity to draft and redraft your essay, talk to someone else about it and get it typed up and ready to hand in on time. If you do your essay the night before it is due in, it shows! Collecting the material It is important to collect information that is relevant. How? It is all too easy to dash to the library, collect a huge pile of books and then browse aimlessly. You might learn something, but you won't get your essay done. The best place to start is by quickly jotting down what you already know about the question: you will probably know more than you realise. It helps to get you thinking about the topic and may also give you some ideas to follow up. Purposeful reading You need to adopt a strategic method: in order to read purposefully, formulate a set of questions before you begin reading. As you read, more specific questions...
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...HOW TO WRITE A RESUME Your resume is an important document, which a potential interviewer will use to make their first assessment of you. The information and template below will help you produce a resume that is easy to read and packed with facts. Contact details Add your contact details at the top of the page. Include name, address, phone number, mobile and email. Make sure your name and contact details are on each page just in case the pages get separated after being printed out in hard copy. Only use professional-sounding email addresses. An email address like drunk-n-drunker@ may give the wrong impression. Birth date and marital status You are not obliged to include either your birth date or marital status – it’s up to you. Lay out There are many layout styles; our advice is to keep it simple. Pick a font style that is easy to read – not too flowery or ornate. Bold for headings are easy to read. Use dot points if you want, but just the one type. The content of the resume is the most important thing. Summarising your strengths You can do this two ways, either list your “Key Strengths” in dot points or include a section under a heading like “Career Profile”. Key Strengths Use dot points to highlight your key strengths. The aim of the section is to give the person reading your resume a quick snapshot of what you have to offer. For example: • High level computer skills including Excel, Word and Powerpoint. • Five years experience in...
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...How I Write Brandy Jolly Grantham University HOW I WRITE When I am confronted with a writing task, I ultimately freeze up. I do not know where to begin. While writing my paper I tend to write the same things over and over again. I used to sit down every night and write in a journal. Since have kids I do not have time to do that anymore. So over the years my writing has gotten really bad. When I do my writing assignments I have to have complete silence with no interruptions. I have found that I can concentrate on my assignment better at night after my kids go to sleep. I want to be able to write an essay or paper that makes sense and has proper punctuation and grammar by the time this course is over. My writing process includes a lot of free writing. What I am thinking is what I write on my paper. I believe that studying the APA guide will greatly improve my writing skills. The APA guide will give me complete details on how to set up my paper correctly. The EBSCO tutorial is very beneficial in that it allows me to learn how to research papers that will teach me how to write more efficiently. I can also use the list of FAQ to answer questions that I may have concerning my assignment. Most of all I will be using my instructor as well as my classmates to help me during this...
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...Samples Sometimes employers request writing samples with the application materials or want them brought to an interview. Writing samples allow employers to evaluate your writing skills, communication style, and ability to express yourself. Any employer whose position requires writing skills may want samples, but writing samples are more common in publishing, public relations, advertising, media, research, and law. Content of the Sample The employer may identify the desired topic. If not, choose a subject that you are interested in and that is related to the job or field to which you are applying. Avoid controversial or politically based topics. You want the employer to focus on your style and skill as a writer, not judge what you write. Appropriate Writing Samples Just like your resume and cover letter, tailor your sample to fit the job if possible. Follow the instructions provided by the employer or in the job description. If the requirements are not specified, use the following guidelines to help you choose an appropriate sample: * Use the job posting to guide your choice and show the employer you possess the required skills. For example, if the position is research-based, provide an example of research work from your college career or for a previous employer. * Newspaper article, story for a newsletter, press release, policy brief, or research report or any other published piece. When submitting a previously published piece to an employer, be sure to indicate...
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...How to write a case review assignment 1. TITLE 2. INTRODUCTION: * Which court decision has been discussed here? * What is the case about? * What are you going to discuss in each chapter/section 3. THEORY and/or CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK * Explain the theory or concepts, or define the legal terms that are important for understanding the case and they are usually provided in the book. For example: * What does the concept ‘negotiations’ mean? * Explain the link between these concepts 4. THE PROBLEM [that the Court has to deal with] * What is the problem that the Court has to deal with/solve? * For example: the application of Art. 74 CISG regarding the delay in delivery or defect of goods * Why is this case important? 5. FACTS of the case (What has happened?) * Who are the parties involved: who is a plaintiff – defendant; applicant – respondent * What has happened (the sequence of, for the case, important events)? 6. APPLICABLE LAW: * Which law has to be applied on this case * Explain the relevant rules (Articles) * What does this article regulates/The purpose of this article 7. POSITION AND ARGUMENTS OF THE PARTIES * Explain the main arguments and reasoning of the parties in this Court Case: * What is a point of view of each party? Explain! * What kind of reasoning each party follows? * Make link with the theory...
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...Honestly, it is a funny story. In Kindergarten and 1st grade, I did not want to learn to read. My parents often make fun of me for it now, since writing is such a major passion of mine. They recall me throwing the simple books down and calling it useless. Obviously, it was a battle that I lost (and I am glad that I did) because reading and writing have shaped who I am today. After giving in to my teachers and parents, I quickly learned to read and developed a passion to write. In fact, I begin writing multi-chapter novels by 4th grade. I continued to write as I matured, yet here lately, I have not had time to sit down and write. Also, I am currently suffering from writer's block, which is absolutely terrible. From this course, I hope to develop my writing skills, get back into the regime of writing for leisure, and break my writer's block. I am also looking forward to receiving constructive criticism from classmates and reading the works of others. I really believe sharing your work with peers is crucial to the success of a writer. I am certainly one of the biggest offenders when it comes to not catching my own typos (thank you, Grammarly Chrome Extension)....
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