You should have your first drafts turned in by now. I will grade them and get them back to you by Monday afternoon.
Over the break and after you get your first drafts with my feedback, you will need to work on your second drafts. Your second drafts will need to have all four sections paragraphed out
A thorough explanation of the origins/background of the issue and your community in academia. At least one solid paragraph, maybe two.
A discussion of multiple perspectives (a perspective is how or why your issue exists) on the issue (including your own personal experience and perspective). There should be one paragraph for your own personal experience and perspective. After all, it’s an issue, so there’s bound to be many different views of the problem. These should be multiple paragraphs (3 at least).
A detailed description of current and proposed solutions for the issue. This should be at least one paragraph.
A strong argument in favor of which solution(s) you think are best, with our campus being a focus. This should be at least one paragraph, maybe two. This would be a good place for you to use your personal experience to strengthen your argument for which solution(s) you think are best.
You will also need to include at least one direct quote and one indirect quote AND a References page in APA style. Only include the sources you are using in the essay-no need to have all 12 from WP2. Please go back to WP2 and look at any comments I made about the References page and fix it.
Let's take a look at Owl Purdue guidelines for doing in-text citations APA style. We will take a look at a direct and indirect quote from a Journal article page 133.
Direct Quote: For direct quotes, you need the author's last name, date of publication, and page number, as shown in the following example:
Military brats move a lot which means new schools all the time. One of the things that helped me to gain literacy in the military brat community was when I finally figured out how fit in for every school I was transferred into. According to Queair (2018), military brats are "presented as being the 'new kid at school', confronted with the small tortures that this entails" (p.133). Things like making new friends, learning how to navigate the school, what to wear, and how to speak were all difficult things I faced. I learned that I could make friends easily if I was just myself and joined clubs or groups that fit my interests including theatre and band. I learned to look up the campus map to orient myself so I would be less lost. I became more literate when I learned that I just had to dress how I felt comfortable and that was more important to me than fitting in. And finally, I learned to pay attention to what people were saying for slang whenever I moved.
Indirect quote: If you are paraphrasing an idea from another work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication in your in-text reference and may omit the page numbers. APA guidelines, however, do encourage including a page range for a summary or paraphrase when it will help the reader find the information in a longer work.
Military brats move a lot which means new schools all the time. One of the things that helped me to gain literacy in the military brat community was when I finally figured out how fit in for every school I was transferred into. As Queair (2018) mentions, military brats often have to be the newest student at school and all the horrors that come along with that (p.133). Things like making new friends, learning how to navigate the school, what to wear, and how to speak were all difficult things I faced. I learned that I could make friends easily if I was just myself and joined clubs or groups that fit my interests including theatre and band. I learned to look up the campus map to orient myself so I would be less lost. I became more literate when I learned that I just had to dress how I felt comfortable and that was more important to me than fitting in. And finally, I learned to pay attention to what people were saying for slang whenever I moved.
Let's take one more look at how to format a References page and what an APA References page looks like.