Inter-modal Research Paper / Attn Colleen

Topic: Impact of Panama Canal Expansion on the U.S. Intermodal System

This should be written as a free flowing paper, do not write with bullet statements. Strict APA formatting guidelines, strong emphasis on eliminating grammatical errors, must be plagiarism free as it will be checked through TurnItIn database.

**You can find more information on APA at http://flash1r.apa.org/apastyle/basics/index.htm for a very good video.

The requirements of this paper include a cover sheet (title, course title and name, student name, APUS, professor’s name, date), a 5-7 numbered pages of text, and a reference page. The research paper requires at least eight references. The graded paper is worth a great portion of the final course grade.

Note: All papers will be checked for plagiarism, any attempt at plagiarism will result in the student being expelled. Also note. Major universities are banning the use of Wikipedia by their students as a source in their papers because of reliability problems.  Wikipedia acknowledges the problems and agrees students should not use it as a source for academic papers, primarily because Wikipedia cannot control changes to its content. Wikipedia is an excellent secondary source, one that I use regularly, but you must go back to the recognized primary sources if you wish to use information initially identified in Wikipedia. The use of Wikipedia will result in a 0 on assignments turned in.

I have included 4 of the 8 resources that you can use. Please let me know if you need additional academic resources to assist in your writing this research paper.

I have also provided a start; the introduction may need some tweaking… It is my own words.