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My topic: “How has technology affected families”

Assignment 2: Research Summary

In this week’s discussion assignments (W2: Assignment 1) you identified a research topic and did some searching to find credible information. Now it is time to gather your thoughts and resources and structure them in an MS Word document. You will write a summary about your research topic and the resources you have identified. With this assignment, you are introduced to formatting papers in the style that will be required in most of your future coursework.

You may find this tutorial helpful as you begin.

Create a new MS Word document and save it with the title of W2A2-lastname.docx. Save this document in the same folder that you saved your Week 1 Assignment. The MS Word doc should include:

• Title page in APA format. (See APA resources listed below.)
• The body of the paper containing four paraphrased sources relevant to your research topic, double-spaced with APA-styled in-text citations.
• An APA-formatted running header and page numbers as demonstrated here.
• References page containing four APA-styled citations for the sources you used in the body of the paper.

Make sure you put your research into your own words, paraphrasing and citing your sources where appropriate.

There are plenty of resources you can use to make sure you properly format your paper and cite your sources according to APA standards.

• Refer to “Giving Credit” in the Week 2 lecture pages.
• Review the Microsoft Office Word 2010 skills that you learned from this week’s textbook reading.
• Try APA Basics and APA PowerPoint Presentation found in the South University Online Library at the bottom of the page under Copyright and Citation. 
• In the South University Policies and Guidelines under Course Home there is a link to Using APA Standards in Your Course Work.

Here is an example for a reference of a Web site address:

Author, I. (Last edited date). Title of resource. Retrieved from http://Web address

By Tuesday, September 15, 2015, submit your MS Word document to the W2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.