essay prep

Assignment

There are two parts to this week's Essay Prep assignment. First, you'll practice citing and referencing. Second, after reviewing the textbook information in chapter 7 on White Collar crimes and reviewing the FBI web site, you'll select three White Collar crimes to write about for your final essay assignment. Save your work in a Word document (.doc or .docx) that you'll then save and upload to the portal "Essay Prep" above.

Part 1. Practicing APA

• Quote from the textbook and cite per APA
• Paraphrase and cite from any the page of interest at the FBI web site.
• Complete a reference list for the textbook and the website you cited above

Part 2. Essay Topics

Your final paper will have five paragraphs: an Introduction, three content paragraph on the White Collar crimes of your choice, and a Conclusion. To get started exploring White Collar crimes, go to the FBI White Collar Crime web site and review the Major Threats and Programs. After reading through a few pages of interest to you, list three White Collar crimes that you'll write your paper on to complete Part 2 of this week's assignment.

• Topic 1:
• Topic 2:
• Topic 3:

Save Part 1 and Part 2 in the same Word document and upload to the Essay Prep portal by Sunday at 11:59pET.  Please save your document “lastname EP1.doc” or "lastname EP1.docx". For example: SmithEP1.docx.

That's it for your first Essay Prep!  I hope you enjoyed exploring the topic.