Instructor: Jean Gordon
All research must reflect professional academic protocol and be documented according to APA standards. (Student Guide, BUS680 Training and Development, pg. 8)
Many of your first papers show you are already using APA guidelines.
All written assignments require APA writing standards as outlined in the Ashford writing center and must include:
1. A Cover/Title Page
2. An Abstract on its own page (an Abstract is no more than a paragraph of no more than 120 words that concisely outlines the important parts of your writing. I believe the word Abstract strikes fear in the hearts of even the best writers. We read them all the time. An Abstract is on the back of every DVD you have ever purchased or rented. It gives you a concise summary of what the DVD is about. Or every time you read a menu, it too gives concise summaries of the main parts of an item on the menu.). Abstracts are not hard!
3. A first paragraph that clearly states what you are going to write about and possibly prove or disprove (Your thesis).
4. Properly cited and referenced "facts". A fact is a quotation or paraphrase taken from someone else's writing. e.g. "Managed care means that health care is paid for in advance" (Understanding Managed Care). And the corresponding reference would be:
Understanding Managed Care, The Merck Manual of Health & Aging. retrieved from http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_ha/sec4/ch66/ch66e.html on December 14, 2009.
5. A conclusion, this is your summary of your findings.
6 A Reference Page
7. Times New Roman or Ariel font, 12 point. Nothing fancy. simple is better.
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