Incorporating Research Assignment

Assignment Objective: Create a paragraph following APA guidelines, incorporation source information into your writing, and document parenthetical and reference citation(s) using APA.�Textbook Reading: p. 396-397 Attached�Student Example: Incorporating Research Example Attached�Template Document: Incorporating Research Template Attached

To ensure you have understood how to access, select, read, evaluate, and incorporate a source into your writing, you will be putting your lessons to practice.� This assignment is to write a succinct, cohesive paragraph using one source you found during the research process.� This source should be one that assists you in supporting your one area addressed in your thesis statement. Your ideas are the star of the paper; the sources are the supporting cast. The sources are there to support your ideas.� Don't get carried away with someone else's ideas - do not let the source over take your own idea, which could end up with problems in originality (plagiarism).

Your source must be a scholarly article retrieved through the library database.� Submitting an article for a popular source will result in a grade decrease of 50%.

You must have at least one parenthetical citation in your paragraph.� Challenge yourself to do more than simply quote the author(s).� Truly incorporate the source information into the paragraph to support your ideas.

Follow the paragraph with the APA reference citation of the scholarly article.� The article DOI or publisher URL must be included so that I may look up the article in the library database.