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Written Essay Assignment #1

Writing Assignment Guidelines/Resources: 

Be sure to review the Writing Assignment Guidelines/Resources page located on the previous page.

Writing Prompt:

Reference  information in Chapters 1-14 of your textbook:

Choose ONE from the following 3 topics:

1. Write an essay about stress.  Address what causes stress, how it affects your body and the steps to take to reduce stress. 

2. Write an essay on the benefits of physical fitness and nutrition and how they can contribute to a healthy lifestyle. 

3. Write an essay addressing the importance of responsible relationships and remaining abstinent. 

 

Essay Length: 2 pages

Sources: 2 websites and your course textbook required

You must list your course textbook on the reference page as follows:

Excel High School. (2022).  Health and Fitness. Include current web address for course here

 

Source Requirements:

· Always include the course textbook on your references page. Note that it  does not  count as one of your two online sources.

· Include at least  2 additional sources retrieved from public websites (please do not use websites that require usernames/passwords).

· All sources that you use or cite  must be listed on the references page.

· Wikipedia cannot be one of your listed sources.

The References Page

As an example, let's use this website as a source:

Once you have the source URL, use the following Citation Generator from Scribbr to help you structure your sources into APA format. Click on the following link to be directed to the citation generator:

https://www.scribbr.com/apa-citation-generator/

When you go to the link, it should look like this:

Since you are citing a public website, click on the  Website button on the left.

Then, on the following page, you should paste the URL of the source you want to cite and click search.

The program will then fill in the information from your source, and you then should scroll to the bottom of the page and click the  Cite Source button. It will generate a citation for you.

Copy that onto your own resources page.

Do the same with all of your sources and then put them in alphabetical order.

In-Text Citations

In an academic essay, in-text citations are used to link the information in your paper to the sources on your references page. When you add in-text citations, you are pointing specifically to evidence that backs up what you say. This is a  necessary part of supporting the content of your paper.

Creating In-Text Citations

In-text citations are formatted in the body of your essay as follows:

(Author, Date).

If no author is provided in your source, follow this format:

(Title, Date).

If there is no publication year you can find, include "n.d." to signify that no date was available. For example: (Nguyen, n.d.)

Using the sources on our new references page, we will now make in-text citations that would be added to the body paragraphs of the essay.

Source #1:

This source has no author mentioned, so we will use the title and year to create the following in-text citation: (Life Skills, 2020)

Source #2:

Since this source does have an author, we will use just the last name and year in the in-text citation: (Sinco, 2020)

Source #3:

For this source we will use the title and year again, due to there being no author mentioned: (Software Developer Job Description, 2021)

Using In-Text Citations

Each of the body paragraphs in your essay should have at least one in-text citation. In addition, you use in-text citations when quoting or paraphrasing information from one of your sources.

Here are two examples of how to correctly cite direct quotes with in-text citations:

and

Here is an example of the same information paraphrased and cited: