INTD100S

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INTD100S

• Welcome
• to the
• University Colloquium Seminar

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INTD100 Seminar Overview

• This seminar is required of all students new to
  the University transferring 12 or more credit
  hours from another institution. It is also
  required for all students currently attending
  Davenport University who have converted to the
  new program. The seminar introduces students to
  the portfolio, and the Capstone experience. Both
  the portfolio and the Capstone are necessary to
  complete your University career.

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Overview-continued

• In addition, this seminar will briefly review the
  process of writing a research paper. At the end
  of the session, the research paper format adopted
  by the University will be reviewed the American
  Psychological Association publication style. If
  you want more information about this, you can
  purchase a book from our bookstore about writing
  research papers using the American Psychological
  Association or APA style.

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Goals of INTD100S

• Introduce the Davenport portfolio
• Introduce the Davenport Capstone
• Review the APA (American Psychological
  Association) publication style
• Review writing a research paper

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Davenport UniversityStudent Portfolio

• A Journal of Personal Success
• A collection of specific, pre-identified
  assignments from particular courses within your
  curriculum

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Purpose of Portfolio

• Direct and document your growth at Davenport
• Organize your academic career
• Demonstrate your success at Davenport

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Student Portfolio-continued

• The portfolio is a notebook in which a student
  keeps work that documents his or her success at
  Davenport University. Certain classes that
  students take will require what are called
  portfolio artifacts, mandatory assignments that
  are required for the course, and that students
  will put into their notebook. For instance,
  ENGL111 Composition requires that students
  complete a research paper and that this completed
  paper be placed in the portfolio. INTD210
  Professional Ethics requires students to analyze
  a case studya presentation of a real life
  ethical dilemma or problemand put this analysis
  into the portfolio. Students will add to their
  portfolio throughout their time at Davenport.

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Student Portfolio-continued

• The portfolio provides direction and
  documentation to your academic career by
  revealing the courses you have completed and the
  work that you have done. It also helps you
  organize your academic career. At any time, you
  can review the contents of your portfolio, note
  your accomplishments and think about what else
  you want to achieve. The sample program guide
  under the Course Material button notes that some
  classes have a PA marked in front of them. PA
  stands for portfolio artifact. Artifact is the
  University term for document, or evidence of
  accomplishment. All of the classes that have a
  PA in front of them include an assignment that
  should be put into your notebook when it is done.

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Student Portfolio-continued

• Please note that you will not need to do any
  extra work for the portfolio. You are using the
  portfolio to store work that you have already
  done, so that you can see your academic career in
  total. After you graduate, and as you start
  looking for jobs, you may find it helpful to show
  some of your portfolio artifacts, or all of them,
  to prospective employers.
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• If you are a transfer student, you may not need
  to take all of the classes in your program that
  require a portfolio artifact. Dont worry about
  that. You will need to store in your notebook
  only the artifacts created in the classes that
  you are required to take.
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• You may also want to add to your portfolio items
  of your own choosing, perhaps certificates you
  have earned, or a copy of a dynamite review from
  your job. You can decide.

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Process of Completing Your Portfolio

• Begins in INTD100 (for all new students) or
  INTD100S (for all current or transfer students)
• Continues through required classes
• Ends in Capstone
• Reflection paper
• Final Capstone experience or project

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Student Portfolio Process

• The process of creating your portfolio starts now
  and continues throughout your career here at
  Davenport. Your instructors will remind you to
  put items in your portfolio. When you are at the
  appropriate point in your degree, you will take a
  class called a Capstone. This Capstone caps off,
  or completes, your work here at Davenport. It is
  similar to what might be called a senior
  experience or even a senior thesis in some
  schools. When you take that class, usually during
  your last semester, you will, as your first
  assignment, review the elements of your portfolio
  and reflect upon your achievements. The portfolio
  will be completed in that class. Your final
  Capstone project will be the last element that
  you add to your portfolio.

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Portfolio Process-continued

• Your portfolio will contain some University
  requirements. When you talked to enrollment
  advisors, you should have filled out a Career
  Education Plana guide about your career goals.
  You will review that each year with your advisor.
  That should be placed in your portfolio.
• In addition, much of your portfolio will be
  filled with what are called school identified
  assignments. These are the portfolio artifacts
  that you will be completing in your various
  courses. When you get into that Capstone class,
  you will be asked to review these assignments.
  Associate degree students will be asked to keep
  the best four assignments in their portfoliotwo
  from their University School or general education
  classes, like math and Englishand two from
  classes in the school of your major business,
  technology, or health.

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Portfolio Process-continued

• Bachelor degree students will be asked to keep a
  total of six assignments. You may certainly keep
  more than that, but you will be required to keep
  just that many in your portfolio. The assignments
  in your portfolio should represent your best
  work.
• When you get to that Capstone class, you will be
  asked to reflect on your portfolio and your
  University career, and to write a reflection
  paper. This paper will be part of your portfolio.
  It should discuss your growth as a student.

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Content/Artifacts Summary

• The University requires that all students have a
  CEP- a Career Education Plan
• School identified Artifacts
• Associate degreeTotal of 4
• 2 from University School
• 2 from Business Foundations or Major School
• Bachelor degreeTotal of 6
• 3 from University School
• 3 from Business Foundations or Major School
• Reflection paper
• Student designed and selected
• Capstone

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Davenport University Capstone Experience

• A Demonstration of
• Growth and Achievement

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Capstone Experience Options

• Consulting project
• Case study and analysis
• Internship
• Research project
• Other

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Capstone Experience-continued

• The Capstone class is the final course that you
  will take before you graduate. This is the class
  that pulls together all that you have learned
  throughout your other classes. This can be
  thought of as your senior experience or your
  final project.
• The class will begin with reflection. You will be
  asked to review your portfolio, to reflect on
  your growth as a student, and to write about it.
• You will also be asked to develop a project of
  your own that helps you demonstrate all that you
  have learned at Davenport.

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Capstone Experience-concluded

• Your Capstone project might be a consulting
  project, where you work with, or volunteer with,
  a company to solve a problem that company is
  having. You might analyze a case studya real
  life business problem. You might complete an
  internship, where you gain on-the-job experience.
  You might complete a research project. Or you
  might think of something else entirely.
• No matter what project you choose, you have
  plenty of time to think about this. This final
  project or Capstone experience will be a part of
  your last semester at Davenport.

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Writing Across the Curriculum

• Davenport University has a Writing and
  Communication Across the Curriculum program. This
  means that writing and public speaking are
  emphasized in every class. This is important
  because employers look for employees with good
  communication skills.

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Research Paper Process

• Since writing is emphasized in every Davenport
  course, this section of INTD100S will discuss
• How to create a better research paper with
  less stress!

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How to choose a topic

• Once your instructor has assigned a paper, here
  are some options on how to narrow your topic
• Review the index of your textbook in any of your
  courses for ideas
• Brainstorm with others
• Choose something that interests you from the
  topics suggested in the assignment within the
  course

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Refine the topic

• Use a complete sentence
• Distinguish the topic (what youre talking about)
  from the controlling idea (what you say about it)
• Make the controlling idea more specific
• Example-
• Topic computer security
• Sentence Computer security is vital.
• Controlling idea vital
• More specific Because of its importance,
  computer security should be part of training for
  all managers.

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Create an assertion

• Start with the complete sentence and then make
  sure that it can be argued against.
• Assertions call for higher level ideas and add
  good depth to your paper.
• Example-
• Nurses need many skills. (informative)
• Nurses today use more managerial and people
  skills than they do clinical skills. (assertion)

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Sample AssignmentWrite a paper discussing an
aspect of a managers duties today.

• Topic mentoring employees
• Sentence A manager needs to consider employees
  technical and people skills in order to properly
  mentor them
• Assertion Diversity in the workplace has been
  hindered because managers refuse to properly
  mentor employees who are not similar to
  themselves.

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Always run your potential thesis by your
instructor.
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Collect research

• Use the note card system to collect research.
• Put information on index cards.
• There are two types of cards
• Note cards
• Source cards

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Note cards

• Put one quotation, summary, or paraphrase on a
  card
• Put the authors name and the page number that
  the information came from on the card.
• Put the general topic or point of the research on
  top of the card.
• When writing the paper, go card by card, not
  article by article.

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Source cards

• Use one card per source.
• Put all documentation information on the card.
• After completing the research, put the
  documentation in the correct format on the cards.
• Put the cards in alphabetical order.
• Type the References from the cards.

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Ways of using research

• Direct quotations
• Summaries
• Paraphrases

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Direct quotations

• Use when the source is memorable or
  authoritative.
• Use the exact words and enclose in quotation
  marks.
• If you leave out words, use an ellipsis ().
• If the source has quotation marks in it, put
  these in single quotation marks.

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Summaries

• Give the main points of the original more
  briefly.
• Use an introductory phrase (According to Dr.
  Smith)
• Put the page number in parentheses at the end.
• Do not use exact wording from the original.

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Paraphrases

• Explain a difficult source in your own words.
• Put the ideas in a different order.
• Do not just substitute one word for another,
  translating the original word for word.
• Use an introductory phrase.
• Put the page number in parentheses at the end.

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Documenting Sources

• Consult your APA Manual for specific cases.
• Use two citations for each published source one
  in the text (internal) and one at the end in a
  Reference List.

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Internal citations

• Include the authors name and the year for all
  use exact pages for specific references.
• Smith (2000) studied employee motivators.
• One study of employee motivators used research
  from Ford Motor Company (Smith, 2000).
• The best motivator for employees is praise, not
  money (Smith, 2000, p. 82).

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End citations

• Double space and use hanging indentations.
• Put the sources in alphabetical order according
  to the authors last name.
• If each source has been used in the paper, title
  this References.
• If you include things you read but did not use,
  title this Bibliography.

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Periodicals

• Author last name, First initial. (Year, month
  day). Title of article. Title of Periodical,
  volume, pages.
• Reverse all authors names.
• Capitalize the first word of title and subtitle
  of article except for proper nouns.
• Capitalize all main words of periodical title.
• Italicize periodical title.

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Online periodicals

• Author last name, First initial. (Year, month
  day). Title of article. Title of Periodical,
  volume, pages. Retrieved month day, year, from
  source.
• The source refers to the URL (web address).

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Online documents

• Author last name, First initial. (Year, month day
  published). Title of work. Retrieved month day,
  year, from source.

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Nonperiodicals

• Author last name, First initial. (year). Title of
  book. Location Publisher.
• Capitalize only the first word of title and
  subtitle except proper nouns.
• Use just city and state for location.
• Dont give number of pages in book.

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Personal communication

• (Robert Smith, personal communication, May 23,
  2001).
• E-mail to author, letter, personal or telephone
  interview.
• These are recorded with internal citations only,
  not in the References at the end.
• Give authors full name, personal
  communication, and date in parentheses.

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Common types of plagiarism

• Giving the source of a direct quotation but not
  using quotation marks.
• Giving the source at the end of a paragraph to
  refer to all research within the paragraph
  (instead of at the end of each research source).
• Giving sources in the References but not linking
  them to internal citation.
• Making a paraphrase a simple translation of the
  original.

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INTD100S-conclusion

• Davenport University is committed to working with
  you to insure your success in your educational
  plan. Your portfolio is one tangible example of
  your growth within your college career. Should
  you have any questions regarding your curriculum,
  please feel free to contact your advisor to have
  your questions answered.

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INTD100S-conclusion

• Thank you for your attention!