Term Paper on "Older Adult Abuse"

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GUIDELINE FOR THE PAPER ASSIGNMENT

1. Keep in mind the purpose of the writing assignment.

Writing can have many different purposes. Here are just a few examples:

• Summarizing: Presenting the main points or essence of another text in a condensed form

• Arguing/Persuading: Expressing a viewpoint on an issue or topic in an effort to convince others that your viewpoint is correct

• Narrating: Telling a story or giving an account of events

• Evaluating: Examining something in order to determine its value or worth based on a set of criteria.

• Analyzing: Breaking a topic down into its component parts in order to examine the relationships between the parts.

• Responding: Writing that is in a direct dialogue with another text.

• Examining/Investigating: Systematically questioning a topic to discover or uncover facts that are not widely known or accepted, in a way that strives to be as neutral and objective as possible.

• Observing: Helping the reader see and understand a person, place, object, image or event that you have directly watched or experienced through detailed sensory descriptions.

choose the purpose of writing above

2 Paper Outline

Title Page

Introduction

Body

Conclusion

Reference Page

3 Paper Considerations

CHECKLIST ONE:

1.Is my thesis statement concise and clear?

2. Did I follow my outline? Did I miss anything?

3. Are my arguments presented in a logical sequence?

4. Are all sources properly cited to ensure that I am not plagiarizing?

5. Have I proved my thesis with strong supporting arguments?

6. Have I made my intentions and points clear in the essay

Re-read your paper for grammatical errors. Use a dictionary or a thesaurus as needed. Do a spell check. Correct all errors that you can spot and improve the overall quality of the paper to the best of your ability. Get someone else to read it over. Sometimes a second pair of eyes can see mistakes that you missed.

CHECKLIST TWO:

1. Did I begin each paragraph with a proper topic sentence?

2. Have I supported my arguments with documented proof or examples?

3. Any run-on or unfinished sentences?

4. Any unnecessary or repetitious words?

5. Varying lengths of sentences?

6. Does one paragraph or idea flow smoothly into the next?

7. Any spelling or grammatical errors?

8. Quotes accurate in source, spelling, and punctuation?

9. Are all my citations accurate and in correct format?

10. Did I avoid using contractions? Use *****"cannot*****" instead of *****"can*****'t*****", *****"do not*****" instead of *****"don*****'t*****"?

11. Did I use third person as much as possible? Avoid using phrases such as *****"I think*****", *****"I guess*****", *****"I suppose*****"

12. Have I made my points clear and interesting but remained objective?

13. Did I leave a sense of completion for my reader(s) at the end of the paper?

4 IMPORTANT PAPER NOTES

a Paper Length: 3 pages minimum (excluding Title & Reference pages), but may include relevant and few tables, graphs, boxes, diagrams

b.Spacing: Double spaced

c.Use APA Format. STRICTLY APA.

d.References: Include at least 2 professional sources (1 must be a relevant journal). Please Note, your citations and paraphrasing should not consume the entire paper

e.Paper Topic MUST BE APPROVED

f.Drafts should be submitted in a timely manner for review (draft submission not required)

g.Underlined sub-headings preferred in the body of the paper

h.ALL PAPERS ARE MUST BE SUBMITTED ON OR BEFORE THE DUE DATE (papers that are not submitted accordingly will automatically lose 40 points. You have enough time to work on this paper, so I would advise you start the writing process as soon as possible, I will not recognize stories about typing issues, formatting issues, â€A"the dog ate it”, etc.)

i.Finally please PROOFREAD, points will be lost for grammatical errors

j.PLAGIARISM is strictly prohibited. All papers must be submitted through the plagiarism software on Blackboard.

k.NO PICTURES, NO GRAPHICS (UNLESS A RESULT FROM YOUR RESEARCH/SURVEY FOR YOUR PAPER, DO NOT IMPORT FROM ANOTHER SOURCE & PASTE

7. RESOURCES

Periodicals which may be helpful:

American Journal of Nursing

Generations

Geriatric Nursing

Geropsychology Central Abstracts and Journals

The Gerontologist

Innovations in End-Of-Life Care

Journal of Gerontological Nursing

Journals of the Gerontological Society of America

American Journal of Health Behavior

American Journal of Health Promotion

American Journal of Public Health

Annual Review of Public Health

Caring

Family and Community Health

Geriatric Nursing

Gerontologist

Health Education Journal

Health Education Quarterly

Home Health Care Nurse

Home Health Care Services Quarterly

Journal of Community Health

Journal of Health Nursing

Journal of Environmental Health

Journal of Health Education

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services

Journal of School Health

Kentucky Epidemiologic Notes and Reports

Medical Care (Journal of Medical Care Section, APHA)

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR)

Nursing and Health Care

Nursing Outlook

Public Health Nursing

Public Health Reports

Thanatos

The Hospice Journal

The Journal of Gerontology

The Nation*****'s Health

Databases

Databases available through the Purdue Library website:

Academic Search Premier

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

MEDLINE

CINAHL

Internet sources which may be helpful:

National Library of Medicine Toxicology Tutorials and Tox Town Tour: http://towtown.nim.nih.gov/ http://www.sisnlm.nih.gov/enviro/tuxtutor/Tox1/index.html

Healthy People 2010 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hphome.htm#Healthy%20People%202010

National Center for Health Statistics Data 2010 Healthy People 2010 Database http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/hpdata2010/aboutdata2010.htm

Healthy People 2010 Toolkit http://www.healthypeople.gov/state/toolkit/

ConsultGeriRN.org

http://consultgerirn.org/

The Gerontological Society of America

www.geron.org

National Gerontological Nursing Association (NGNA)

www.ngna.org

Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing

www.hartfordign.org

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

http://wwww.nursingcenter.com/ajnolderadults.

Writing Resources

http://owl.english.purdue.edu

http://www.aresearchguide.com

http://www.apastyle.org/manual/whats-new.aspx