Choosing Your Topic
.....a) Get out your handout called Dialectical Essay: Assignment #1 Choosing a Topic.....b) Look at the topics that you had "Strongly Agreed" or "Strongly Disagreed"
.....c) Go to Pollev and put up one topic that you "Strongly Agreed" or "Strongly Disagreed" with
.......... For example, if you "Strongly Agreed" with Canada Prisons, you would put up "Canada Prisons" on PollEv.com/michaelkoops582
.....d) Find somebody else who also put up the same topic.
.....e) Partner up with them. If you don't find anyone, you can work on your own for this major assignment, but you need to clear it with Mr. Koops or Ms. Geis
References
In order for you to write this essay, you will need to do some research. Along with that research you will have to properly cite the references for the research you did. Each side of your topic should be thoroughly researched and represented. At the end of your essay, you will have a Reference page that is formated in the APA format.There will be two parts to this Assignment. Part one will be a practice of formatting a list of resources into APA format. Part two will be using the APA format to create a Reference sheet for the research you have done for your topic.
APA Style
APA stands for the American Pschology Association style of formatting a formal essay and paper. It is widely used in Social Studies, Psychology, and other scientific fields. On their website, the American Pschology Association states "The best scientific writing is spare and straightforward". The purpose of the APA style is to accomplish this kind of precision. This is why it is used for your Dialectical Essay.
Plagarism
Plagarism is cheating, stealing, and copying another person intellectual work without giving the person proper acknowledgement. It is usually done four ways. First, students will quote a sentence or phrase (word for word) without citing the source (copy and paste). Second, the student will paraphrase another person's ideas (restating in your own words) without acknowledging the original source. Third, a student will hand in another person's work and claim that it is his or her own (outright cheating). Finally, a student will use a diagram, chart, statistic, or image without stating where he or she aquired it (copyright infringement).Any of these forms of plagarism will result in an immediate failure. Moreover, other disciplinary action maybe levelled against the student. To avoid this situation cite your references within your essay and create an accurate Reference page.
Assignment #2 - Part A
…...a) Go to page 54-60 of "On Your Own" by the Thames Valley District School Board and look at the "APA Exemplers".…...b) Download this handout and use the information below to complete Part A of the handout and organize the following references into APA style.
Reference 1
A book called Play Directing n the School: A drama director's survival guide by David Grote and published in 2012 by Meriwether Publishing LTD of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Reference 2
A 2010 report by United States Health Department in Washington, D.C. called "Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health".
Reference 3
An entry in the 2000 World Book Encyclopedia for "Grasslands" on page 145 of the sixth volume and published in New York.
Reference 4
A newspaper article written by Bob McKenna for the Globe and Mail in June 21, 1995 in the A1 and A4 section of the paper called "Canada, U.S. near resloving cultural battle.
Reference 5
An article written in 1995 by N.R. Campbell in the Canadian Medical Association Journal called "Prevention and control of high blood pressure".
Reference 6
A July 17, 1995 interview on the radio by the CBC and Produced by C. Haines on a show called Science Hour in Toronto and the interview was called "Constantly Battling Cancer".
Reference 7
An article from an online database by M. Rusto in November 15, 1999 called "Pro-Nazi pope?". It was published in a journal called Insight On The News. It was on pages 18 to 20 from volume 15 and retrieved from the Bigchalk database on February 20, 2014.
Reference 8
A webpage created by the Canadian Cancer Society in 2002 called "New Treatment Methods and retrieved on September 2, 2014 from http://www.cancer.ca
Reference 9
A youtube video from a blogger called Multicultural Director and entitled "Acculturation in Canada". It was posted on October 20, 2014 and the web address was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y2qpxYRQAo
***Many of these examples were taken from an earlier edition of "On Your Own".***
*** You can also get the information for the References to edit here: download ***
Assignment #2 - Part B
.....a) Go to the worksheet called: Historical Background Research.....b) Under "File" go to "Make a copy..." and save the worksheet into your own Google Account
To help you with your research of a topic, you may want to use the database available to students in our school.
.....c) Go to this website: http://external.edonline.sk.ca/public/listing.html
.....d) Click on "All Licensed K-12 Student Resources"
.....e)Scroll down to "Canadian Points of View Reference Centre/EBSCO"
.....f) Click on "School Access"
.....g) Choose a topic and begin to browse articles on that topic
.....i) For your Historical Background Research have 1 Book Reference, 2 Online Journal References, and 1 Website Reference (like wikipedia).
