MASTER IN TEACHING PROGRAM MASTER S PROJECT PUBLICATION INFORMATION FORM AND STYLE The conventions of form serve to facilitate clarity of communication and foster widest understanding of your report The MIT program requires the use of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 5th ed American Psychological Association 2001 for page layout citations and references The expectation is that your work will be of publication quality and consistent use of the American Psychological Association APA style will help you achieve that quality In addition the following components must be included in the final copies you submit for binding and which will be placed in the college Library see Printing and Binding Instructions in the following section Flyleaf Page A Flyleaf page blank page needs to be inserted at the front and back of each copy Title Page This is the first page of your written report It contains the title the full name of the author a presentation statement e g submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master in Teaching and the date the report was completed Approval Page Following your title page is the approval page signed and dated by your faculty advisor Only the main reader will sign off on this page Abstract The abstract is a concise summary of your topic findings and conclusions The abstract should be no longer than 300 words double spaced block format and should follow your approval page See Publication Manual of the APA for recommended content Preface This page should include acknowledgments As a matter of professional courtesy any source person or organization from whom you received substantive research and writing support should be acknowledged The faculty advisor should always be acknowledged Table of Contents The table lists the chapter or major section titles by page number First level and second level heads describing paragraphs or paragraph sections may be included as well Following the chapter sections and also listed by page number are your references and lists of tables figures graphs and or plates and appendices if any The Text of Your Paper This should be organized according to Evaluating the Development of Your Written Project in the MIT Project Guidelines booklet and should be formatted according to the conventions of the Publication Manual of the APA References The reference list at the end of your project documents all materials cited in your text and provides the information necessary to identify and retrieve each source References cited in the reference list must be cited in the body of your text conversely each reference cited in the text must appear in the reference list You should choose references judiciously and must include only the sources that were used in the research and preparation of you paper In contract a bibliography cites works for background or for further reading APA style requires reference lists not bibliographies References in APA publications are cited in the text with an author date citation system and are listed alphabetically in the References section of your paper in APA style Elements of APA style references such as author names titles and dates of publication are described in the Publication Manual of the APA Appendices Materials that supplement your text but which are not appropriate for inclusion may be appended Materials should be subdivided in logical sections and listed in the table of contents Colored Paper A piece of colored paper must be inserted in between each copy of your project MIT PROGRAM COMPLETION POLICY The completion of your project and the award of credit for your work is expected to occur during the Winter quarter of your second year in the program As described in the MIT program covenant see Student Guidebook to College Program Policies Procedures which you received during the first week of the program The final edition of the Master in Teaching Project must be completed and presented to the program during Winter Quarter Year Two Students seeking state of Washington Residency teacher certification must meet all appropriate requirements outlined in the Washington Administrative Code Chapter 180 78A in addition to all program requirements of Evergreen s Master in Teaching Program If the paper in final form is not received by this deadline you will not be advanced to Spring quarter student teaching See your faculty team for further information AVOIDING PLAGIARISM The program covenant contains the following section Requirement of Academic Honesty All forms of academic dishonesty including cheating fabrication facilitating academic dishonesty and plagiarism are violations of the Evergreen Social Contract Plagiarism is defined as representing the works or ideas of another as one s own in any academic exercise It includes but is not limited to copying materials directly failing to cite sources of arguments and data and failing to explicitly acknowledge joint work or authorship of assignments see also Evergreen s Social Contract regarding Intellectual freedom and honesty The MIT faculty also place cultural appropriation without appropriate acknowledgment and or permission as a form of academic dishonesty The following is APA s 1994 stance on avoiding plagiarism Quotation marks should be used to indicate the exact words of another Summarizing a passage or rearranging the order of a sentence and changing some of the words is paraphrasing Each time a source is paraphrased a credit for the source needs to be included in the text The key element of this principle is that an author does not present the work of another as if it were his or her own work This can extend to ideas as well as written words pp 292 294 And this closing advise to students Both citation footnotes parenthetical notes or endnotes and quotation marks are required whenever you copy exact words and phrases from a source When you paraphrase or summarize but do not copy exactly citation is still required When in doubt cite over citation is an error but under citation is plagiarism Howard 1995 p 800 REFERENCES American Psychological Association 2001 Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association 5th ed Washington DC Author Howard R M 1995 Plagiarisms authorships and the academic death penalty College English 57 7 788 806 Master in Teaching Program 2005 Student Guidebook to College Program Policies Procedures The Evergreen State College Washington Printing and Binding Instructions Number
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