Sunday, September 20, 2009

Too stupid to use a template APA

Okay Tomas,

Much nicer, though we still have to label the 4 steps of the risk analysis that we read about in our assigned reading and for which the instructions in the Syllabus say to work through and how they are broken down on the grading rubric and template, which is attached.


See the attached. Imagine that the xxxxxxxx's beneath the mini headings in the template are sentences. Well you need to replace those x's with the matching content from your paper that should go beneath that heading. The reason there are mini headings is because the assignment was about using a 4 step method to help you reach a decision.

So for each heading, you were to research information and studies found on Malathion and then at the end of doing all these 4 steps of research, the correct answer regarding whether to apply it or not will be clear.

I always say it is easier to download the template to your desktop than to re format your paper each time and in this class, I have even put in the subtitles into the templates to help you keep your content on track.

How to work with a template:

Open the template attached and do a 'file save as'. Save the file as 'SCI 275 Week 2 Assignment.'

Then close out of the post you downloaded the template from and close out of Word.

Now, find the file that you downloaded and saved as 'SCI 275 Week 2 Assignment' and open it.

Type over 'Example Student' to change the wording to your name.

Then, take the content from the document you have already typed, and copy and paste those paragraphs over the xxxxxxxxxx's beneath the same subtitles in the template under where it would make sense. For example. if each subtitle in the template were the colors blue black red and green, which content from what you have already typed would match each of those four colors.

Now you have both a generic desktop APA formatted document that you can use for the rest of your years at AXIA; as well as a well formatted Assignment Two that I can read easily and find what I am looking for.

In my classes, I supply you with a template for each APA assignment and encourage you to use those. It only takes 5 minutes to match your content with the four subheadings...unless of course you did not research your content using the 4 step risk analysis, which means you either did not read your assigned reading or need help understanding it. IF so, ask for help and or just try your best on this paper and get it in and look forward to another opportunity in next week's work.

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