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“Trauma Informed Instruction”
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Your
term paper will be a research paper on Trauma Informed Instruction. As a
graduate student, you will be writing scholarly papers in most courses.
Go to Scholarly Writing: Overview (Links to an external site.) for further information on writing at the graduate level.
For
your paper, you will research the topic “Trauma Informed Instruction”
by seeking out scholarly articles. I suggest you utilize the many
resources found in our own Paul Meek Library (Links to an external site.). You can use the online resources to seek out Peer Reviewed (Peer–reviewed (refereed or scholarly) journals – Articles are written by experts and are reviewed by several other experts in the field before the article is published in the journal in order to ensure the article’s quality).
For
this paper, you must include at least 7 to 10 scholarly peer-reviewed
references on Trauma and how teachers/schools might address the unique
needs of students who come to class with trauma. The paper must adhere
to APA formatting guidelines. Please use Purdue Online Writing Lab (Links to an external site.)
to review those guidelines before you begin writing your paper. There
is an APA Overview and Workshop and an APA Formatting and Style Guide.
Instructions for Writing:
1) Understand the assignment. If you have any questions, ask before you begin.
2)
Understand the audience for which this paper will reach. You are
writing to a broad audience of your peers, schoolteachers and
administrators.
3) Conduct preliminary research to note any
discussions that seem important to the topic and find a specific issue
that you can focus your paper around. You may want to begin to formulate
some questions to help guide you. You may want to try and finish the
sentence “I want to know how/why/what….”.
4) Develop a thesis
statement, which is a statement of your central argument – it
establishes purpose and position of your paper. If you started with a
question, then the thesis statement should answer it. The thesis
statement should be concise, contentious and coherent. That means it
should briefly summarize your argument in a sentence or two; make a
claim that requires further evidence or analysis; and make a coherent
point that relates to every section of your paper.
You can revise
and refine the thesis statement as you do more research, but it can
serve as a guide throughout the writing process. Every topic and
paragraph should aim to support and develop this central idea.
6) Create a research paper outline.
7)
Write complete paragraphs. Begin with a topic sentence, which
introduces the idea to be explored in the paragraph. Next, Introduce or
link evidence for the idea outlined in the topic sentence. Continue to
provide more specific evidence or examples in support of the topic
sentence. Explain how the evidence just given relates to the topic
sentence. The last sentence should summarize the main point that has
been made so far.
8) Begin with an introduction that includes the
What? Why? And How? After finishing the introduction, the reader should
know what the paper is about and why it is worth reading.
What?
Be specific about the topic of the paper, introduce the background and
define key items such as terms, theories and historical details. If you
are writing a longer essay with a literature review, you should give a
sense of how your point fits with the extant research.
Why?
This is the most important, but also most difficult, part of the
introduction. Try to provide brief answers to the following questions:
What new material or insight are you offering? What important issues
does your essay help define or answer?
How? The
reader needs to know how the paper will proceed. Therefore, the
introduction should include a “map” of what will be discussed or briefly
present all the key elements of the paper in chronological order.
9) Write a compelling body of text.
10) Write the conclusion.
11) You must include in-text (Silver, 2020) citations and the last page
will be a Reference page listing all references used within your paper
in APA formatting.
To help get your started on Trauma-Informed Instruction, please read the following article “The How and Why of Trauma-Informed Teaching (Links to an external site.)” by Alex Shevrin Venet.