Reference no: EM132455086

Scenario: While attending a university to study your major, you are an editor at Parker-Benson Publishing. The firm is facing a PR crisis this month because another editor published an article that was plagiarized. As a result, the corporate attorneys have insisted all editors write them a memo to define and describe the APA documentation system.  This will prove you and the other editors know how to use the APA guidelines. Your memo will also include descriptions and instructions for basic citations and the four components of APA-formatted reports.

Here is what the corporate attorneys require in the memo's introduction and conclusion:

Introduction: Write a brief paragraph to prove you understand why all Parker-Benson editors must use the APA documentation guidelines correctly. Discuss the benefits of using APA and the negative consequences for ignoring this corporate requirement.

Conclusion: Write a brief paragraph to end the memo. If no follow-up is required, this might be a sentence or two. However, you may invent details that would logically fit this scenario.  For example, would you be training others or performing some other relevant action that would impress the attorneys?

Here is what the attorneys require in the four sections:

Section 1: Define and describe the APA documentation system in one paragraph. Don't write as if you are a student. Write in your role as an editor in a publishing firm that uses APA rather than MLA or another documentation system. Why would this publishing firm use APA?

Section 2: Write step-by-step instructions starting with action verbs to list the process for locating an APA reference manual or web site.  If you use a web site instead of a book, assume that editors know how to use a computer, access a web site, etc.  Start with a logical step that provides the information editors don't know.

Section 3: Write step-by-step instructions starting with action verbs to list the process for citing an in-text citation and at least two other categories of citations: an article, book, web site, and/or newspaper. Use appropriate headings to separate the citations.  Under each heading, include the instructions first and then an example of that citation.  Invent your own sources for the citations (ex. John Smith as the author, etc.) to avoid plagiarizing existing sources.

Section 4: Define four parts of an APA-formatted research report:  title page, abstract, paper, and references page.  Describe what these four parts should include and how they should be formatted.