...Running Head: Avoiding Plagiarism 1 Avoiding Plagiarism in Academic Writing Brian Butler Coll100 Matthew Freed Avoiding Plagiarism 2 Citation is most important when trying to avoid the harsh but justifiable punishments for plagiarism. Commonly, when someone say plagiarism, we think, someone copied a paper word for word. What some people do not know is that there are many types of plagiarism. “Plagiarism is not always a black and white issue.” (1) To many people we often think its ok to take words from one person and use for yourself, why is that so wrong? Though, it’s not ok we don’t understand what the problem is. What really is plagiarism and how do we make sure we do not commit plagiarism in our papers? To clarify better, “Plagiarism: an act or instance of using or closely imitating the language and thoughts of another author without authorization and the representation of that author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the original author:”. (2) That’s very to the point but here’s something else, if you read something and it’s not common knowledge, without citing the source yes, you have created plagiarism. When we hear the word punishment we don’t think of plagiarism being so serious, and yet the penalty for plagiarism can be very serious. Government laws enforce anywhere between a fine and/or incarceration of up to one year, this is a misdemeanor. Fines range from $100 to $50,000 dollars, depending...
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...Calendar for College 100 Week |Monday |Tuesday |Wednesday |Thursday |Friday |Saturday |Sunday | | Week 1 |Read 13 rules every college student needs to know |6 tips for veterans to succeed in college (Personal) |Week 1: Who am I Assignment 1- Honor Code |Quiz 1-Scavenger Hunt |Response to two classmates |(Personal) |(Personal) | | Week 2 |Read:http://www.apus.edu/ctl/students/skills-development/test-taking.htm Assignment #2 - Topic for Final Paper |Read:https://edge.apus.edu/access/content/group/arts-and-humanities-common/COLL100/Readings%20Links/Wk2/www.usnews.com_edu20130220131239-1.URL Week 2: Making the most of your time. Forum (Personal) |Read:https://edge.apus.edu/access/content/group/arts-and-humanities-common/COLL100/Readings%20Links/Wk2/www.elearners.com_20130220131239.URL Quiz #2 - Policies and Procedures Quiz |Read:https://edge.apus.edu/access/content/group/arts-and-humanities-common/COLL100/Readings%20Links/Wk2/www.elearners.com_20130220131239-1.URL Assignment #3 - Managing Time - Creating your own Personal Calendar |Read:http://www.studygs.net/timman.htm Response to two classmates |(Personal) |(Personal) | | Week 3 |Academic skills Test Taking |4 Time Management Tips for Online Learners (Personal) |How to avoid Feeling Isolated in your Online Classes Week 3:What is my style |Time Management for Online Learners |Response to two classmates |(Personal) |(Personal) | | Week 4 |Assignment 5 Annotated Bibliography The Writing...
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...and Resources section of Week 4 Lessons. Directions For this assignment, you will be completing several steps that will help you in navigating through the APUS Online Library and its vast resources, in searching for and locating resources for your final paper, and in creating the reference page entries following proper APA formatting for your chosen sources. Begin preparing for your assignment by watching brief videos created by the APUS Online Library to assist you in locating trustworthy resources. Then, you will use the information you learned from the videos to identify, analyze, and synthesize your research. Visit the COLL 100 Course Guide at http://apus.campusguides.com/COLL100. On the Home page of the site locate and click on the “library tour” inside the “Welcome to the COLL100 Course Guide!” box. View all five videos – “Start here!”, “Articles”, “eBooks”, “Websites”, and “Library Help” and address the questions for the assignment. Scripts are available for each video under the “Need a transcript?” section of the web page. After review of the library tour videos please use this template to answer the following five questions: 1. Watch the “Start here!” video first then, based on what you learned from the video, explain the deep web. * The “deep web” allows APU/AMU students to search for more specific information than they can find on other search engines. The resources are often specific to what the user is looking to...
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...Assignment 9: Draft Review Two Questions and a Draft Assignment Instructions Create a draft of your final paper utilizing your topic Linear Outline or Mind Map, your Title Page, and your Reference Page assignments. Submit the draft of your final paper for a brief instructor review. Instructors will use a general checklist in feedback to indicate where additional work is needed for your paper. To assist you in your learning and academic success, students are to submit two specific questions that you would like to pose to your instructor for detailed feedback. Students may submit up to two questions for instructor review and feedback. Please ensure to create very specific questions and provide detailed information in your question such as location in the paper or request for review of a particular section (i.e. Introduction, paper format, APA style, or in-text citations). Feedback received from the instructor should be considered and incorporated into the final paper for submission during Week 8. Prior feedback from the Title Page assignment and the Reference Page assignment should already be integrated by the student into the Draft Review assignment before submission. Examples of questions: Please review my use of in-text citations in the draft paper and provide guidance; Please review my use of the paper template and provide direction; Please assess my introduction; Please provide guidance on my use of sources and resources in the draft. Students – please note...
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...Hands on is the Key Mitchell M Ledet III COLL100 I014 Sum 12 American Military University Roxanne Ostlund HANDS – ON IS THE KEY The different type of people in the world learning techniques vary on the different type of personal they are and the area they grew up around. Some people learn by visual, listening and some by hearing. I learn better with hands on while getting involved into the lesson and tasked that has to be completed. A person needs to know their learning style to better themselves at learning and to take advantage of the advantages instead of their downfalls. There are many different types of ways of learning throughout your life. As a kid, your parents showed you everything that you needed to learn. Now the time you enrolled into school your teachers informed you and showed you different type of ways to learned stuff. My reasons for seeking a college degree were merely for promotion points to achieve the rank of Staff Sergeant. Once I achieved my associate’s degree, I could have stopped there but realized that right now the military is having drawdowns and looking to put someone out the service. Therefore, I had to sit down and do a real outlook on my life. What do I have to fall back on once I exit out the military? The only thing I ever knew was the Army from day one when I graduated from High School. To be a great role model from my sons I had to make the first step in bettering my education history and not become handicap due to the Army...
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...Investigation into My Learning Style Ben Thiel COLL100 American Military University Professor Corey Tutor Investigation into My Learning Style Throughout life the term “learning style” is used, each individual has a different assumption of the definition mostly the individual takes on a personal stance and states, “I’m an auditory learner, if you say it once I will remember,” whereas others refer to themselves as most commonly visual or kinesthetic students. However, for one to limit themselves to possessing one type of learning style is quite a limitation. I have always considered my learning style to be predominately visual learner. According to Felder & Soloman, (n.d.) there are multiple learning styles aside from the traditional visual, auditory, and kinesthetic. Felder & Soloman (n.d) present eight different learning styles which include; active, reflective, sensing, intuitive, visual, verbal, sequential, and global. Although these styles tend to pull from the traditional three; their definitions give more depth to the characteristics associated with one’s preferred learning style. Felder & Soloman developed a personal questionnaire which allows an individual to answer a series of forty-four questions. Results are given to the individual based on their responses; the scales range from one to eleven in one direction or the other these values compare two learning styles. The numerical value represents the individual’s preference for one learning style...
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...What is my Learning Style? What Is My Learning Style? COLL100 American Military University Everyone has their own individual reasons for pursuing a college degree. Though college can be difficult at times in many ways then one financially academically personally physically etc. For me this is my third year in college and I have to say in those three years I have found [myself questioning if getting my college degree is worth it or if I should just drop out. But I have to keep remember why I’m doing this is the first place ill make more money with a degree it will also increase my job opportunities as well as open future opportunities that I may not be considering now. My mother always told me you want to make yourself more marketable, and getting my degree I will make me more marketable. Like I was saying above the reason I'm seeking a college degree is because in today’s world a lot of companies or businesses require that you have some type of college degree. Not saying you can't build a career without a college degree because I know some people can and have. I think I would have a better opportunity at getting a better paying job with a college degree. Learning styles describe the way people learn new information. Most people like me use one learning styles or more. By understanding my own unique combination of learning styles, I will be able to focus on my studying techniques Most people like me use one learning styles or more. I would have to say I agree...
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...Learning with Style: Defining Yourself as a Student Mark LeCouter COLL100 American Public University System Heidi McNally Learning with Style: Defining Yourself as a Student Many students have a certain way of learning that comes easiest to them but may not know how to identify and use it to their educational advantage. Some may have trouble with lectures while others may have trouble remembering diagrams. So in theory, whichever learning technique suits you, that undoubtedly is your learning style. I personally believe this to be true. Growing up as mostly a visual but also auditory learner, it made most classes easier to excel in than other students. On another hand, it made the classes that focused more on reading assignments or written instruction much more difficult. If those learning styles were identified earlier in life, it would have affected my studying habits and support foundation leading to a higher success rate in the classes where I struggled. The way a student learns also defines them as a person and has a strong influence on their personality, character, and morals. Students should embrace their learning style but also find ways to strengthen their weaknesses to enhance their overall learning ability. According to the Learning Styles Inventory from The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, visual learning suits me best (The Center for New Discoveries in Learning, 2012). Seeing pictures or a movie in your mind to recall certain...
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...Reading Comprehension and Strategies Tyrone D. Ward COLL100 American Public University Linda Eckert Reading Comprehension and Strategies "Why can't Jonny Read"? This question was asked or resurrected back in the back in the1980s. A gentleman by the name of Rudolf Flesh did a comprehensive and in debt study on this issue. Mr. Flesh realized that the United States had a very high illiteracy rate and major reading problem and how television had a major effect on an individual’s reading ability. He surmised that, television instilled learning of memorization by word association. Remember Sesame Street. His answer the issue was phonic or phonetics, with the understanding that comprehension would come later. Remember Hooked on Phonics. In America today, most children are beginning or trying to talk around the age of two years. This is a time when language skills are just starting to develop. Even though it usually too early of an age to expect a child to read, there is no reason why the parent cannot start the reading process by reading aloud to them. Instilling reading into a child’s life can prove to be one of the most valuable skills that they will ever learn. (http://www.mannmuseum.com n.d) William and Johnson conducted an experiment to test a hypothesis or theory as to whether perceptual skills training will enhance reading performance of adolescence in school age children. As a basis for their study these adolescence where placed into three experimental groups...
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...Left vs. Right Brain Diana Webb COLL100 AMU Sharie Adamson Left vs. Right Brain The brain is above and marvelous to all other organs. It does not just controls the human thought's, but it also controls the entire human body as a whole. The brain is divided into two sections left and right hemisphere that controls different functions like thinking, physical movement, and controls all organs. The left and right hemisphere is made with approximately 100 billion cells ( Johnson n.d.). Reason is so important is because it sends out information to the organs, it initiates bodily movement, it controls and holds memory. Hemispheres and Corpus Collusum Most individuals are stuck with the myth of the left handed person that uses the left side of the hemisphere. According to Jeff Anderson, the author and professor of neuroradiology at the University of Utah says: "It's absolutely true that some brain functions occur in one or the other side of the brain, language tends to be on the left, attention more on the right” (Novotney, 2013 pg 4). Studies have also showed that there is no evidence of the brain being stronger on the right or left hemisphere The left hemisphere has its own special functions. The left hemisphere dominates the functions of the brain. It controls speech, language processing and logical reasoning. The left hemisphere is not capable of handling vision, touch or identifying objects. The left hemisphere controls the entire right side of the brain. The right...
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...Technology and How It Fits 1 Technology and How It Fits Into Academic Success My Name Here COLL100 American Military University/APUS A TEACHER HERE Technology and How It Fits 2 Abstract This paper discusses how the use of technology can help increase academic success. It will show how Social media can transform the classroom by utilizing Social Networking ideas. An investigation into how the Standards movement, the Technology movement and the Instructor Standards movement, together, create a complete approach to E-Learning. Simply investing in technology is not enough to maximize academic success. In Adopting Information Technologies for Instructional Environments, it states: The introduction of new information technologies has created a turbulent environment for change in higher education; this has caused institutions, faculty and administrators to rethink their roles, teaching venues, and delivery options in markedly new ways than those currently available. The promise that accompanies any such remarkable change also brings with it some realities as these ideas are tested, implemented and adopted. (Kumari, 2005) Technology and How It Fits 3 Technology and How It Fits Into Academic Success Many studies have been done on the various ways that technology can be used in the classroom to further academic success. The question of how best to bring technology into the classroom has been deeply researched...
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...Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic: Which Motivation is Better David Hood COLL100 American Military University Angela Matthews Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic: Which Motivation is Better Different strokes for different folks. No two people are alike. What works for one person does not always work as well for another. This is also true with regard to how people are motivated. While intrinsic motivation can make some people happy simply through the act of doing the task and enjoying it (Grabmeier, 2005), extrinsic motivation lures people in to do great things in order to obtain a reward or a specific outcome. Both motivational techniques can have positive and negative effects on each other. Intrinsic motivation can be diminished when an extrinsic motivator is taken away or perceived to be unworthy, which will further undermine or weaken the desire to perform (Schop, 2009). Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation work best when combined together to influence behavior in ways that move toward satisfying needs while also providing an incentive. In order to avoid a life of mediocrity, people need to keep their motivators in check so that they can persevere long enough to meet their needs. Think of the some of the best things in life – anything from computer games, football, coaching a child’s sports team, playing the drums … any activity that brings great joy or pleasure. Procrastination when doing one of these activities is usually not an issue. In fact, it is...
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...The Role of the Environment in the Ability to Learn ---------- Coll100, American Public University February 19, 2011 The Role of the Environment in the Ability to Learn Students all over the world have found ways to improve their personal abilities to learn. The students become comfortable with their surroundings and adapt to the specific learning environment around them. Some learning environments are optimized for the promotion and acceleration of the learning process, while others are designed to meet specific needs such as flexibility or convenience. The different situations people may be placed in have an impact on the way they learn. When a student is taken out of the environment they are used to and placed in an area that is unfamiliar to them, the student may experience a sense of overwhelming culture shock. This feeling tends to have adverse effects on the learning process. The environment surrounding a student is a major contributing factor to the ability to learn, as it may provide purpose, motivation, and even direction to the student in order for them to accomplish their goals. No matter what situation people are placed in, the human mind is capable of learning. People have a natural yearning to learn as much as they can, despite the challenges and adversities placed before them. In the words of William Penn Adair Rogers, well known for his political and social satire as a comedian and humorist in the 1920’s and early 1930’s, “Why don't they...
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...How the environment affects learning Dennis Skinner American Military University/COLL100 April 30, 2010 Michael Carmichael How the Environment Affects Learning This paper will discuss how our environment affects learning. We will discuss how important the environment is in the early years of one’s life in early childhood development. We will also discuss how one’s interest in learning plays a vital role in learning. We will also discuss how active learning and development plays an integral role in those years between teenager and adult and as well as what influences that has on being successful in life. We will also examine the two learning environments, home and school, and how each are changing and as well as how these two environments will play significant roles as each student discovers what’s real and what’s not real and how each help the learning process. Lastly, we will consider how the learning environment is continuing to change and how the digital age will change the way we learn and as well as the effect it will have on our future students and how it will affect the path they choose to follow their dreams. In the early years of development the environment plays as big a role in how children learn and how they development more than any other time in their life. In environments where children are not only taught that it’s ok to learn, but to also enjoy the process leads to an active learning environment where children are allowed the opportunity...
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...Mind-Body Connection and how it Affects Learning James Webb Coll100 American Military University Corey Tutor Mind-Body Connection and how it Affects Learning The mind–body connection examines the relationship between mind and matter, and in particular the relationship between consciousness and the brain. Many throughout history have often wondered what causes the connection between the mental portion of the mind and the physical state of the body. A variety of different topics have been proposed. Most fall under either the dualist or monist theories. Many philosophers have debated their theories on the mind-body connection to include such philosophers as Descartes and Plato. More recent researchers have moved beyond the dualist conceptions of body and mind towards a unified and interrelated concept of a bodymind together. Today scientists believe our minds and bodies work together. The body-mind connection helps us to pay attention and solve problems as well as affecting memory. Basically, the physical state of your body directly affects how well our minds will work. Some scientists are also researching how emotions affect the body-mind connection. Numerous studies have been done to show the proof that these theories are factual. The philosophy behind the mind body connection began with Plato and Aristotle. Basically both philosophers believed that the physical body contained multiple souls. Their theories differed a bit in that Plato believed that if the body died...
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