Week 8 Assignment

Using Chicago Turbian Style you are to write a 2 page paper refining your topic.  You can take what you started with in Week 5's assignment and expand upon those ideas.  You need at least 3 sources, one of which must be an academic source, to support your ideas.  Things to keep in mind for this assignment is why is your topic important, why should your audience care?  We need to be getting closer to identifying our actual thesis topics.  Some of you are already there, the rest of the class needs to catch up.  :)

Remember with Chicago Turbian Style that you have intext citations in the form of footnotes, but you will also have a Bibliography at the end of you document.  I would also like you to e-mail this assignment to me so I check your formatting.  All assignments must be emailed to cdelong@gwa.ac.ma and safeHS@gwa.ac.ma by the beginning of your class on October 31st.

Monday - October 17th

Hi guys.  Here is our class activity on plagiarism today. Go to this link http://www.lycoming.edu/library/instruction/tutorials/plagiarismGame.aspx  While it may seem a little juvenile, the information is great and I think you might actually enjoy it!  


When you finish the game email me 5 things that you learned about plagiarism today. cdelong@gwa.ac.ma
I am going to give you a grade for this. 


You may then work on one of the following things, your economics work or start on your Week 7 Assignment.  Your Week 7 Assignment Topic is "Choosing an Advisor." In at least 2 pages you are to discuss the qualities of a good advisor as well as the purpose of an advisor for our class, in other words, what is their job.  You should include at least two sources and you can choose either MLA or APA.  Remember that everything from this point on has to include intext citations.

Tomorrow you will work on brainstorming qualities of good advisors, and I will talk more about this when I come back on Wednesday.

Thesis and APA

Here are some links that would be helpful in working on this assignment:

This one goes over writing a thesis: 
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/1/

This one deals with the difference between high school and college writing, which could help you answer the first part of your assignment:  http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/high_school_v_college.htm

Here is the link to the Perdue OWL site on APA: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Week 5 Assignment - Picking a Thesis Topic

Remember that this week's assignment has to be emailed to me by Monday, October 10th by the beginning of your class, Morocco time.  cdelong@gwa.ac.ma & safeHS@gwa.ac.ma

Picking a Thesis Topic

• Follow all Capstone rules for formatting
• 2 1/2 pages using APA format with intext citations
• At least 2 academic sources included in your paper
• Explain the difference between a research and thesis paper
• How you are choosing your thesis topic, why, and how you can narrow your choice
• No first person in your paper

I would suggest doing 1/3 of your assignment on the difference between a thesis and research paper, 1/3 on what topic you are interested in, and the last 1/3 on how you narrowed your topic and this would be the part where you put in the 2 academic sources on your topic (journal articles from JSTOR would be good).