Formal Paper Guidelines

UI100: First-Year Seminar

Formal Paper Guidelines Purpose: Your main point will follow this format:

“Having selected a career occupation of ____, it appears that it will (or will not) be a viable

career choice for me in the next five years.”

Due Date: May 4th

Researcher/Writer Steps:1. Find a career upon which to focus your

paper. 2. Conduct background reading and

research to select and define your career choice.

1. Narrow your choice to a specific occupation in the selected environment.

Formal Paper Guidelines

Formal Paper Guidelines Establish the viability of your chosen

career in the labor marketplace of today and the future.

Identify skills needed, technology factors, changes in work organizations and global impact.

Formal Paper Guidelines

Define a specific course of action which you could and should take to enter into this career.

Formal Paper Guidelines Structure your paper with a thesis

statement, supporting paragraphs addressing the viability of the career, and give a strong, summarizing conclusion.

Formal Paper Guidelines You must use APA documentation style for

your paper. Click on The Writing Center website

http://ustudies.semo.edu/writing/owl/

From APAstyle.org When editors or teachers ask you to

write in “APA style,” they do not mean writing style. They are referring to the editorial style that many of the social and behavioral sciences have adopted to present written material in the field.

The American Psychological Association has established a style that it uses in all of the books and journals that it publishes.

Formal Paper Guidelines

Formal Paper Guidelines APA Documentation Style

The "References" page should be double-spaced within and between entries, with one-inch margins all around. 

Italics is preferred over underlining. 

Note that initials are used for authors' first names and that only the first word of titles is ordinarily capitalized.  (The first word after a colon in titles is also capitalized.) 

Entries are alphabetized by the author's last name or by "the first significant word" of the work's title (excluding "A," "An," and "The"). 

Formal Paper Guidelines

Formal Paper Guidelines

Make sure as you research you keep careful notes on where you found your information.

Present your research in a clear, concise, and reasoned format throughout your paper.

Use a 12 point font. Use one-inch margins on all sides of

paper. You must attach a “References” page to

your paper Your references must include

one published article from a professional journal or reviewed periodical

one other printed resource one electronic source.

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Formal Paper Guidelines Your paper will be approximately 4

pages, typed, double-spaced. Use The Writing Center to help you

structure your topic and writing, if necessary.

Formal Paper Guidelines

Have someone proofread your paper!

Formal Paper Guidelines

Paper is due on May 4th in class!!