Teenage pregnancies: Paraphrasing and Quoting

reate a topic sentence and a body paragraph that will support your thesis statement. Your paragraph must include paraphrased information and a direct quote. Each of these elements must be incorporated into your paragraph with proper APA in-text citations. In addition, create an APA-formatted reference list for the sources noted in the body of your paragraph. At the end of your paragraph, provide the original text that you are paraphrasing. Share your paragraph and the original text by pasting them into the forum as your initial post by Day 3. Be sure to refer to the Ashford Writing Center (AWC) and this week’s recommended resources for information related to in-text citations and references.

Your initial post must be 200 to 300 words in length,

This second discussion for week two is a great way for us to dive into the draft of our papers.

There are a lot of important elements that need to go into your first post, so here is a checklist for the body paragraph that you will post:

1. Start with a topic sentence. The sentence needs to be an overview of the whole paragraph. It shouldn’t introduce a piece of research; it should summarize the whole purpose of the paragraph.

2. Include a paraphrase of research to support your purpose. Cite it in APA (this requires the author’s last name and year. If there is no author, include the title. If there is no year, use n.d., which stands for no date).

3. Include a direct quote from research to support your purpose. Cite it in APA (this requires the author’s last name, year, and page number. If there is no author, include the title. If there is no year, use n.d., which stands for no date If there is no page number, use the paragraph number and abbreviate it to para.).

4. Include a reference page citation for the source used.

5. Under your body paragraph, include the original research source (the paragraph) that you used for your paraphrase

Recap for citations:

Paraphrases: Author’s last name, year. Example: (Brown, 2013)

Direct quote: Author’s last name, year, page number. Example: (Brown, 2013, p. 6)

If there is no author, use the title.
If there is no year, use n.d.
If there is no page number, use the paragraph number.
**NEVER use the URL.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument. Teenage pregnancies: Paraphrasing and Quoting