Intext Sampler

A small shortened example of what I'm looking for with the intext sampler, using Chicago Turabian style.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/74124525/Intext-Sampler

Week 11 - Style Guide

Due Date: Monday, December 5, 2011

This week you are to create a style guide for the citation that you and your advisor have agreed that you will use for all the work related to your paper.  You should have two copies of this style guide made, one for your advisor and one for you.  You will turn the one for you in to me next Monday with your rubric for me to grade. 

Along with your style guide you should also complete an intext sampler.  This is to show me your comprehension of your citation style.  Your intext sampler should include samples of 7 different sources as well as a summary of what a bibliography page looks like. 

Your advisor should sign that they agree with your chosen style and go over your intext sampler with you.  You will turn in, on Monday, your style guide, the intext sampler and your rubric. 

Remember that Perdue OWL (Online Writing Lab) is a great resource.  They have style guides for all three citation styles; they are long, and there are shorter ones out there, but this may be a good place for you to start.  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/2/

Please, oh please, remember that site is a website and cite is the verb of citation. 

What is a Thesis Link

I realized that the link on your "What is a Thesis?" sheet is a dead link.  All of the same information is available here:  http://www.kean.edu/~roneilfi/How%20to%20write%20a%20thesis%20statement.htm  You can use this site in order to cite the information for your paper. 

While the link does not seem to work on my blog, if you copy and paste it into your browser, it should take you there.

Week 10 Assignment - Thesis Statement

This is your Week 10 Assignment, or as I like to think of it as you Week 1 of REAL Capstone!  A big part of this assignment is having your first interaction with your advisors.  Here you can find a link to the advisor rubric sheet that goes with all your assignments (there are two on one page).  http://www.scribd.com/doc/72577880/Capstone-Rubric-Sheet-With-Advisor  Remember that you both (your advisor and you) have parts to fill out on your rubric sheet.

You have two weeks to complete this assignment because of our numerous holidays.  Your Week 10 Assignment is due on Monday, November 28th.  This assignment will include several things:

1. Your Statement of Purpose
2. Your Thesis Question
3. Your Thesis Statement
4. Why your Thesis is a good thesis statement and how it passes the "test" (see the sheet I gave you)
5. Should be a minimum of 2 pages, include citations from your chosen style (APA, MLA or Chicago)
6. 2 sources minimum 

*Reminder that all sources related to your topic must be academic sources!

Useful links:
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/thesis_statement.shtml
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/545/1/

Week 9

For the Week 9 Assignment you just need to tell me you thesis question and your advisor.  You should have taken care of this by Friday, November 4, before we left for break. 

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.