Citation Generator Min 115 Discussion Questions
1. What information is needed to explain, support, or illustrate each topic sentence for your reader? What information did you learn from your resource articles that can be used to support your topic sentences?
2. Chapter 14 explains several types of organizational methods. Depending on your topic, some methods will work better than others. At this point in your process, which method – compare/contrast, cause and effect, process, etc. – do you believe you will use in your essay?
3. If you have a current APA Manual, you may have had a chance to read a Preface that explains the origins of APA format. The business manager and editor of a psychology journal in the 1920s were pleased to get article submissions, but they were in all sorts of weird styles, and they spent hours and hours getting them formatted into a consistent format for publication. It occurred to them that the authors could just as easily do the formatting in a standard format from the get-go, saving the journal editors and typesetter tons of time and creating a professional standard.
So APA format was born! The Modern Language Association, American Anthropological Association, and other academic organizations also established formats for article submissions. Even in our online era, publishers demand specific formats or your submission won’t even be read. Why should they deal with someone who doesn’t follow directions when there are hundreds of authors willing to cooperate and comply?
Even in the workplace, there will be format expectations. What do you believe are some other reasons why we insist on following a specific format in the classroom?
4. Class, I went back through papers from past classes and found these “powerful and luring” titles:
Birth Control Options for Women 40 and Older
Evidence of Police Corruption in America
Student Loan Forgiveness
Minimum Wage in the State of Florida and the Single Parent
Keeping Personal Information Safe on the Internet
A Shopper’s Dilemma: In Store vs. Online
Children and Smart Devices
What do you notice that helped make these titles effective?
5. We use “process” writing in technical writing because we are giving instructions, whether it’s’ a recipe or a complicated software. However, in the type of writing we do in this class, research writing, a “process” tone can quickly become advice-giving, which isn’t the role we want to take on. It depends, and it is a good insight that you may use different organizational strategies, depending on your goal.
Can any of you foresee using more than one organizational strategy?
6. Class, I don’t like the sample linked to the Week 3 Body Paragraphs assignment because it has a References page but no in-text citations, which is a huge error. Please disregard it! (Any source listed on the References page must match a little abbreviated in-text citation in the body of the paper. )
Instead, attached is a sample of the Week 3 Body Paragraphs completed by a former student. When I share a sample with you, it is not necessarily a model essay, perfect in every way, but it is a strong example of how one student successfully completed the assignment. You may not quote from or copy from the sample, needless to say (but I’ll say it anyway).
What do you notice that the student did successfully in the sample, and what might you do differently?
(This file is downloaded)
7. All this information about sentence structures can be a lot to take in, but the information is very important for college writing. Basically, it is showing patterns that repeat every time you create a sentence so that it can be read effortlessly by our readers and convey ideas accurately.
Attached is another resource that students have found helpful. It’s called the Punctuation Pattern Sheet and provides another visual for 10 common sentence structures. If you can master these 10 patterns, you are well prepared for academic and business writing. What is a pattern you tend to use most often in your writing, and what is an example of using it accurately?
8. Reference and Citation Generator
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