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PowerPointforWeek2.pptxPowerPoint for Week 2: Journals & Final Paper
More about Final Paper: Topic Analysis & Citations
Reading Article on Journaling
This week, read the article by Lyn Nelson from her book, Writing and Being, Chapter entitled Beginning Your Journal. It will provide an excellent description about the value of journaling. There are many ideas she offers. Find 3 you like. Write one paragraph for each idea. Once you have written your 3 paragraphs, submit your brief paper in Moodle. This is small assignment.
Continue to write more entries into your journal. Use some of her ideas.
Topic Analysis & Outline
Choose a topic to write your Final Paper. We start small. First we select a topic that has heart and meaning. It must be of importance to you. It has been found that if you write about things you love or that matter to you, writing is easy! I want you to experience just how joyful writing can be. Pick a topic you love.
Examples of Final Papers students have written about in the past:
Reflecting on the history of a grandparent
Unpacking a challenge in the family
Why getting this degree from University is so significant
Choosing 3 main life lessons he/she wants to give his/her children
More topics…
An immigration story
How the lost of a home in the fires really brought home what truly matters
Addiction and how sobriety has been a gift
A letter to future children
A collection of recipes from their country of origin
The difference between various martial arts
How singing changed her life
No reference…yet
You will be placing “in-text” citation in your Final Paper…but NOT YET
First…write Chapter 1 (due week 3), then Chapter 2 (due week 4), then Chapter 3 (due week 5).
This is YOUR writing. You are the author, the original writer. This writing is your masterpiece.
Later we will look for reference to SUPPORT your masterpiece. So we are using reference to support YOU the writer!
Many time we write with references only to summary, rephrase, restate the ideas of another. That is NOT what we are doing with this Final Paper.
This time, this Final Paper is about your own ORIGINAL ideas to comprise your Masterpiece
Use references to support YOUR ideas
So later you will look for references that support your thinking.
When you are writing, place an asterisk (*) at the end of a sentence where you believe you could find a reference that would support your writing.
Example: A student writes a paper about raising children while keeping 2 jobs.
As she wrote, she had placed an asterisk after a sentence where she said that she looked forward to reading to her children every night. After a long day of working, she found that night reading provided an opportunity to bond.
She found a reference that stated precisely how night reading was a great opportunity to relax with a child, but especially how the reading also encouraged the child to read.
Place asterisk after a sentence
Thus, as you are writing, placed an asterisk at the end of a sentence that could benefit from a reference
This allows you to keep writing…to keep your creative juice to flow without stopping your thoughts from getting down on paper
AFTER you have written a chapter, NOW go and conduct a search for a reference.
Now your reference is not only invaluable, but you will find that there are resources that support YOUR CREATIVE original thinking
4 “in-text” citations
You only need 4 ”in-text” citations. By ”in-text” citation, you are providing a citation marking at the end of the sentence
Let’s provide an example. In my dissertation, I had this in-text citation:
The hermeneutic phenomenological method aims to hold interviews that resemble conversation (Cohen, Kahn, and Steeve 61).
At the end of the dissertation, Cohen, Kahn, and Steeve was listed as the source.
In-text citation means that the reference is listed WITHIN the text.
There are no sub-numbers or letters, there are no footnotes, there are no endnote…today in-text citation is used
Viewing the PowerPoints provided by our Librarian, Grace Kim
In Week 3, you will find several PowerPoints that explain “in-text” citation
The way to name these in-text citation is one a page entitled Works Cited if you use MLA
If you APA, then you list these as References.
Remember, ONLY the sources that are listed at the end are listed in the text
The same is true with citation listed in the text, ONLY these citation may be listed in Works Cited or Reference.
You MAY add an additional page at the end entitled Bibliography. These are sources that ARE NOT mentioned in your text BUT that informed your whole way of being
Works Cited/Reference vs. Bibliography
A Bibliography at the end of a piece of writing is actually a list of sources that helped form your thinking, your way of looking at something, that helped develop your belief system
BUT, this sources AT NOT mentioned in your text.
Example: I wrote about St. Teresa of Avila, but St. John of Cross impacted me greatly. His works helped form who I am.
So I added a Bibliography of many works that formed me, works that changes me or that impacted me, but I DID NOT use these works in my text.
4 in-text citation
You will need 4 in-text citation:
Two from a “peer reviewed” article (see librarians PowerPoint for an explanation)
One citation from a book
Another citation from any of the following: internet, film, an interview, another book, a magazine article that is not peer reviewed
This list of in-text citations grants you 25 points toward your Final Paper.
I will look for 4 in-text citations, and then I will look that ONLY those 4 are listed under Works Cited or Reference
You may add a Bibliography but those sources are NOT listed in your text (optional)
