MLA format

Why do I have to follow a certain font, grammar and citation style when I am writing a paper?    How do I make my paper professional?

My idea is that college professors want all the papers they grade to be easy to read and look the same and so there are professional formats they ascribe to.

In reality, whole professions have a style of writing that has evolved from their specialties little proclivities.   Some of the most famous are called MLA, College and APA, (most commonly used by the social sciences world).  This is the format their professional papers are turned in to their industries for  printing in their professional publications.

MLA Overview Resource   is common for the writing industry.  So that is what our papers will be written and turned in using.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/


How do I cite my sources on my paper?   THERE IS AN AP FOR THAT!


QUICK Online Citations Guide

http://www.easybib.com/

Ouest II Syllabus

QUEST Level 2 – Class Schedule

 

Weeks One: Lecture (2nd 3rd 4th months paper Due)

Weeks Two: Trait Discussion & Oral Presentation

Weeks Three: Colloquium (Paper Due)

Weeks Four: Trait Discussion & Oral Presentation

 

SCHEDULE:

 

Month 1Jan 8    Week 1: Lecture: Traits of a Statesman

Jan 15  Week 2: Discuss Virtue & student oral presentations on virtue made.

Jan 22  Week 3: Colloquia on Joan of Arc by Twain (Virtue mini-research paper due)

Jan 29  Week 4: Discuss Wisdom & students Oral Presentations on wisdom made

 

Month 2

Feb 5    Week 1: Lecture: Finding Your Voice or Compiling a Research Paper (Wisdom mini-research paper due)

Feb 12  Week 2: Discuss Courage & students make Oral Presentations on courage

Feb 19  Week 3: Colloquia on biography on William Wilberforce (Courage mini-research Paper due)

Feb 26  Week 4: Discuss Diplomacy & students Oral Presentations on diplomacy made.

 

Month 3

Mar 5    Week 1: Lecture: How to Inspire Greatness In Others and Myself (Diplomacy mini-research Paper due)

Mar 12  Week 2: Discuss Inspire Greatness In Others & students oral presentations made

Mar 19  Week 3: Colloquia on Winston Churchill - Never Give In  by David Vaughn (Inspiring Greatness mini-research paper due)

Mar 26  Spring Break

Apr 2     Week 4: Discuss Move the Cause of Liberty & students present oral presentations.

 

Month 4

Apr 9   Week 1: Lecture: Understanding Forms (Move the Cause of Liberty Paper Due)

Apr 16  Week 2: Research Paper Outline or Draft Due (Due date for final paper & Showcase for the Research Project)

Apr 23  Week 3: Colloquia on The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Apr 30  Week 4: Oral Finals and Due Date for Final Research Paper

May 1,2  Oral Examinations and presentation of Research Papers

VIRTUE Questions

1. What is the first thing you think of when you hear the word, "virtue?"
2. What is the definition of virtue in your own words?
3. What are some examples?
4. Who do you think of when you think of virtue?
5. Is there more or less virtue in the world today than a hundred years ago?  Explain.
6. What is the opposite of virtue?
7. When and where do you need this trait?
8. How are virtue and integrity connected?
9. Sometimes people are afraid of being virtuous.  Why?
10. If you are not virtuous, then what are you?
11. Now what is your definition of virtue?

Recommended reading:

Definition:  C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity.

The prologue of Mark Twain's Joan of Arc.

The Book of Virtues:  Wm Bennett

The Arts:

A Little Princess

Rigoletto: The Opera    Pavorotti
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A3zetSuYRg

Video Clips
The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe

Disney's Mulan

The Buttercream Gang

How to Train your Dragon  (look at the plays on words)

Ideas courtesy of Rachel Molgard visionguru@gmail.com

Education is a Commandment

Check out this article.  Read it, Search it, and Ponder it!!!!!

https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/education-is-a-commandment?lang=eng

Q 2 Essay Questions

Martin Luther King Jr.    Part 1:  He asked the American people to use "soul force" in
                                                     fighting their battles.  What did he mean by "soul force"
                                                     and what other individuals or groups in history have used
                                                     "soul force" and what were the consequences.

 Part II,   Is "soul force" always the right way to handle injustice or are there times to be physically protective or violent?  Defend your answers by using historical examples.


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Gandhi, -- Part 1:  When is it okay to break the law?
                  Part 2:   Should the law breaker submit to the consequences if he breaks them?  Use this book and other historical examples to explain yourself.

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Abraham Lincoln     Part 1:  Some men and women are called on to lead their countries into violence.  What was Abraham Lincoln's view of that violence and of is role in permitting the violence as a means to peace and justice?"  Use quotes from his document and book to show your point.
                                  Part 2:  Compare and contrast others in history who have lead their country into                                               violence.  (What were their motives?  Means?  Consequences?)

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Martin Luther's      Part 1:  Explain why Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic                                                      Church in the 1500's.
                               Part 2:  What were some of the consequences of his actions?
                                           Include if you think your freedoms have been affected because of his life?
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Motivational Tips from Accidental Creative

How to get moving when you just don't feel like it!   Good talk.  

Motivation follows action--Act first then the motivation begins.  

What else do we know about action first then testimony follows?  Holy Ghost can't inspire and tell you that it's right if you don't do it first!  Act first.  

He says that sometimes we get the reverse, we are inspired and then we create, but it's RARE.  And as  professionals we must dive in and then motivation and inspiration comes.

Almost everytime we need to create we must act first!  Our action code as Professionals is to advance and in that we discover motivation.

Three STEPS:    Find them in this video and inspire the class.
 
1   Define your battle--figure out the outcome first. Not the project, not the task.  (Begin with THE END IN MIND.)  

What is the derivation of the word choose?   TO CUT.

2   PRUNE Relentlessly - cut off new growth, if that bloom isn't pruned, it will steal resources from the strength of the stem.  You succumb to systemic mediocrity when you can't say no.  (PRIORITIZE is what number of the seven habits?)

3   Create a ritual, a trigger - a repeatable behavior that will make this thing happen.  (HABIT)  (Twila Tharp, coreographer writes a good book on this.  Every day she gets in her dance clothes and calls a taxi and goes to the studio.  What is the trigger?  It's not the studio, it's the taxi. )   For him it is free writing - or five minute meditation before he starts.

The Accidental Creative


http://www.accidentalcreative.com/podcasts/ac/ac-podcast-what-to-do-when-you-arent-inspired/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+acwritings+%28Accidental+Creative%3A+Productivity+%26+Creativity%29

Gandhi's Life Time Line

			Gandhi  Life Timeline
EVENT	Gandhi's Age
		Add date	Place
Birth	0
Moved w/ fam to Rajkot	7	1876
Married Kasturbai	13	1883
Met Shiek Mehtab	15-17
Dad died	16	1885
England for law degree	19	1888	London
Became barrister	21	1891
Goes to S Africa	23	1893	Kicked off train
Returns to India takes fam. To S. Africa		1896
Children are all born	31	1900	midwifed the last one himself
Created ambulance corp. in Boer War	36	1899
Vow of brahmacharya	37	1906
So. Africa Asiatic Law Amendment "Black Law"	37	1906
Satyagraha "firm to a good cause"	38	1907	arrested, served, released, registration burned
Mining revolt, march, prison, rebellion prison	44	1913
Indian Relief Bill	45	1914
Fam to Britain, WWI  Ambulance duty.	45	1914
Pres. Of Indian National Congress	46	1915
Champaran Indigo rebellion, first fast	47	1916-17
Rowlatt Bill (imprisonment without trial)	50	1919	April 6,	One day fasting/prayer/strike
Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre	50	1919	Apr 13,
Chauri Chaura Uprising	53	1922	23 police killed in non-violent protest
Lord Reading/vicero arrested Gandhi sedition		1922	six years imprisonment
Appendicitis and 21 day fast	55	1924
Salt March	61	1930	April 5-6
Quit India non-violent resistance	72	1941
Subhas Chandra Bose fights Britain		1945	joins Japan to fight with the India National Army
Kasturbai dies	74	1943
Split into Pakistan/India independence		1947
Gandhi dies	79	1948