Quote-Cite Dictionary Definition

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Keep contact with the professor for any problems during the weeks. Austin Peay states that if a student is absent for two weeks from an eight-week course is known as failing absences. Due to that, missing weekly forums can damage final grades, two weeks is one-fourth of the course.

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Grace period/late policy is extended 48 hours for no penalty for any work due that week after the stated deadline. For any posts that are late after will need to contact the professor.

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Weekly deadlines include the discussion forum and QA assignments due Saturday by midnight. If you have already had the textbook you should be reading now, there are reading assignments weekly, especially week one.

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“Direct Quote Cheat Sheet” file is for direct quoting.

It is important to re-italicize the textbook if the students are copying/pasting. For the final essay and week 6 QA assignment, there is a work cited for second literature book of the course. If I am planning on quoting a dictionary definition then in “How to Quote-cite Dictionary Definition” file there is a perfect example of the word and the site it was quoted from. Using a signal phase and/or punctuation opens up the sentence and causes integrating any quote smoothly. In “More Signal Phrases-Integrating Your Quotes” if the quote is a full sentence using a colon is an appropriate punctuation, therefore a signal phrase quote is likely punctuation such as a comma. It is always important to avoid using “says” when a descriptive verb is used followed by a comma. In the file “Essay Checklist – 50 Tips for Higher Grade”, there are more than a dozen of tips before sending an essay to the writing lab and getting a higher grade on an essay. One tip I find useful is creating a good conclusion and making the first sentence interesting. There are good websites for dictionary and references in the file “Web Dictionary & Warning”. Oxford English dictionary is a more extensive word study that is accessible in the APSU library online and printed formats. Wikipedia is not a site to rely on and it should never be