APA and MLA are similar because they are both citing information from a article, webpage or book. the use quotations in the beginning and the end of there cite.. they both have the same information as for example the author and date.
For the differences in the two at the end of the page MLA is presented "work cited" and MLA is presented "references". MLA you put the page number and APA you put the year . Arts and humanities are for MLA and social science papers are for APA. in MLA all major words are capitalized in APA on first words are capitalized.
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
research topic
Since we are doing a research paper on the topic of our degree. My research topic is how to lower Domestic violence.Crime rate has raised a ton. im going to show the facts of domestic violence and statics of it and the facts of ways to possibly lower it.
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Reflection
From writing this essay i learned various different things. i learned a lot about the criminal justice papers i would be writing but i didn't learn much about writing itself other than what i've already known or already learned. touching base back on the difference of academic and scholarly was probably the most useful thing that i have learned while writing this piece.
What i had in mind for this degrees writing strategies were almost right on what i had in mind. they do a lot of informational research papers and use APA format, and more academic then scholarly papers.
The most challenging thing when right this paper was probably relating the interview back to the articles that i found online. but the more in depth i went into reading the article you could start to see the similarities and then it became easier to write the paper. but at first i was confused on what i was really looking for.
my main weakness in writing this piece was my transition and my introduction. i had a lot of trouble starting off paragraphs because i was mainly just stating what i did. after you pointed that out to me i went back and changed a lot of it and you can definitely see the change. also my thesis statement was a strong as it should be and i usually have a hard time writing those for some reason. i think i did a good job on directing back to the audience that was selected which was high school student and i think i did a good job a the work cited at the end of the essay and using good quotes and quotations.
the conference was helpful but it wasn't so much a group conference for me because my partner couldn't make it. i think i got a lot of information out of it that i went right back and could change. it made all your comments on the word document understandable and making it easier to make my writing piece better. i personally think that group conferences are better than individual conferences though because you have someone else's mistakes to look off of then just your own. some things that you might not of got in your paper you might catch in theirs to make your own paper better. and even good things in the paper that you might want to touch base on in your own.
What i had in mind for this degrees writing strategies were almost right on what i had in mind. they do a lot of informational research papers and use APA format, and more academic then scholarly papers.
The most challenging thing when right this paper was probably relating the interview back to the articles that i found online. but the more in depth i went into reading the article you could start to see the similarities and then it became easier to write the paper. but at first i was confused on what i was really looking for.
my main weakness in writing this piece was my transition and my introduction. i had a lot of trouble starting off paragraphs because i was mainly just stating what i did. after you pointed that out to me i went back and changed a lot of it and you can definitely see the change. also my thesis statement was a strong as it should be and i usually have a hard time writing those for some reason. i think i did a good job on directing back to the audience that was selected which was high school student and i think i did a good job a the work cited at the end of the essay and using good quotes and quotations.
the conference was helpful but it wasn't so much a group conference for me because my partner couldn't make it. i think i got a lot of information out of it that i went right back and could change. it made all your comments on the word document understandable and making it easier to make my writing piece better. i personally think that group conferences are better than individual conferences though because you have someone else's mistakes to look off of then just your own. some things that you might not of got in your paper you might catch in theirs to make your own paper better. and even good things in the paper that you might want to touch base on in your own.
Thesis
The thesis was that the government should be able to make the decision on organ sales. Her major reason was donors need the money and that all should be fair. They had a lot of different arguments but over all it was very detailed.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Kyra Pelstring
Eng 102
Febuary 2nd 2015
Wanting to have a criminology degree when you’re older took a lot more writing experience than I thought. I know coming into college you might think there’s a lot of writing pieces in general; which there is, but have you ever thought about the different type of writing pieces you might actually have to writing? Informational, persuasive, academic, nonacademic, scholarly? When I was picking this major I was thinking there would be a lot of research and statistic type papers. I interviewed 2 professors and a graduate student.
I had a very good face to face interview with a graduate student from the University of Louisville that I’m going to mainly talk about. She majored in criminology just like me. I asked her a few questions that persuaded her writing experience. I asked first the main question “what type of writing pieces do you write overall”. Between her and the other professors I talked to they came back with very excellent responses. There Reponses and what type of papers they write are similar to what I had in mine. They write academic informational research papers and summary papers. Usually under the department of sociology or criminology.
I also asked the graduated student what kind of format she usually wrote her papers in and she replied with “most of the time APA”. All of my life I have pretty much wrote MLA format and I’m sure most of you high school students do the same, but there’s never a hard adjustment in the two. She mentioned also how you list or bulletin in most of your papers trying to get your information across.
An essay that I found from online I used to compare to some of the essay you would be writing if you were trying to be in the criminology major. One was a scholarly, I used
http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/stress . It was a academic based research. In the article it didn’t have any pictures and was more bullet with main factors and results. It wasn’t biased and was straight to the point. It had research database just like if were writing a paper for criminology major. There are also other options though
Another was a summary article I found; it was non academic, http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/98/2/310/ . They have straight to the point of what there trying to say. They cite all there information at the top of their page in APA format. In the article it says “(1) whether a measure assesses support structure (the existence of relationships) or function (the extent to which one's interpersonal relationships provide particular resources) and (2) the degree of specificity (vs globality) of the scale. Special attention is given to methodological characteristics that are requisite for a fair comparison of the models.” They use a away off talking about what they want to say by making a number list and putting information in parentheses.
Academic sources and scholarly sources are very similar but scholarly sources are a peer reviewed academic sources. If you’re going to be end up going into the same major I set myself to go into you will mainly be using a lot of academic research papers.
"Stress, Social Support, and the Buffering Hypothesis." APA PsycNET. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Feb. 2015.”
"Stress." University of Maryland Medical Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2015.”
Eng 102
Febuary 2nd 2015
Wanting to have a criminology degree when you’re older took a lot more writing experience than I thought. I know coming into college you might think there’s a lot of writing pieces in general; which there is, but have you ever thought about the different type of writing pieces you might actually have to writing? Informational, persuasive, academic, nonacademic, scholarly? When I was picking this major I was thinking there would be a lot of research and statistic type papers. I interviewed 2 professors and a graduate student.
I had a very good face to face interview with a graduate student from the University of Louisville that I’m going to mainly talk about. She majored in criminology just like me. I asked her a few questions that persuaded her writing experience. I asked first the main question “what type of writing pieces do you write overall”. Between her and the other professors I talked to they came back with very excellent responses. There Reponses and what type of papers they write are similar to what I had in mine. They write academic informational research papers and summary papers. Usually under the department of sociology or criminology.
I also asked the graduated student what kind of format she usually wrote her papers in and she replied with “most of the time APA”. All of my life I have pretty much wrote MLA format and I’m sure most of you high school students do the same, but there’s never a hard adjustment in the two. She mentioned also how you list or bulletin in most of your papers trying to get your information across.
An essay that I found from online I used to compare to some of the essay you would be writing if you were trying to be in the criminology major. One was a scholarly, I used
http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/stress . It was a academic based research. In the article it didn’t have any pictures and was more bullet with main factors and results. It wasn’t biased and was straight to the point. It had research database just like if were writing a paper for criminology major. There are also other options though
Another was a summary article I found; it was non academic, http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/98/2/310/ . They have straight to the point of what there trying to say. They cite all there information at the top of their page in APA format. In the article it says “(1) whether a measure assesses support structure (the existence of relationships) or function (the extent to which one's interpersonal relationships provide particular resources) and (2) the degree of specificity (vs globality) of the scale. Special attention is given to methodological characteristics that are requisite for a fair comparison of the models.” They use a away off talking about what they want to say by making a number list and putting information in parentheses.
Academic sources and scholarly sources are very similar but scholarly sources are a peer reviewed academic sources. If you’re going to be end up going into the same major I set myself to go into you will mainly be using a lot of academic research papers.
"Stress, Social Support, and the Buffering Hypothesis." APA PsycNET. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Feb. 2015.”
"Stress." University of Maryland Medical Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Feb. 2015.”
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