You Are the Editor Throughout your masters program, you have been required to learn and demonstrate academic writing skills. These skills need to be sharp to complete the Capstone Project. This Assignment has you revisit and apply the common writing tools available to support academic writing at the university. These tools include SafeAssign, Grammarly, the APA Publication Manual, and various Writing Center resources. For this Assignment, you will examine and apply the resources to your own Discussion question in order to improve the style and format. To prepare: Review and copy your Week 1 Discussion main post into a MS Word document. From the Learning Resources, review Chapters 6 and 7 of the APA Publication Manual resource and note the variety of formats covered. Review the Learning Resources related to the University Writing Center and the university Academic Skills Center and consider the requirements for scholarly writing. Review the Academic Writing Resources in the Learning Resources. Follow the directions to set up your account in Grammarly, if you do not have an account already. Submit your assignment to Grammarly. Retain the feedback that you receive from Grammarly. Access the SafeAssign Drafts link in the left-hand navigation bar of the classroom and submit your Discussion assignment for an academic integrity check. Retain the report from SafeAssign. Assignment ( write 2 pages) Identify the relevant sections of the APA Publication Manual chapters on citations and references, and the University Writing Center resources on APA format, that relate to the types of citations and references used in your Discussion assignment. Make any necessary changes to grammar, academic writing, or format based on the SafeAssign and Grammarly reports. Revise your Discussion assignment based on this information to reflect correct grammar, APA format, and correct academic writing style, and save your work. Conclude with a paragraph about what you learned about your academic writing skillsstrengths as well as areas needing improvement. Explain the resources you will rely on going forward with the assignments in this course. Post your revised Discussion response and the concluding paragraph to the Assignment link. See below the discussion post of week 1 Discussion: Critical Thinking: Evaluating Information As you have noted throughout your master’s program, psychological knowledge stems mainly from research. Knowledge of the world, in addition to coming from direct experience and observation, comes from many sources, including journals, textbooks, experts, and various media resources (television, newspapers, and the Internet). An important question regarding these resources is, Are they all credible? How do you distinguish fact from fiction in evaluating research information, regardless of its source? This Discussion addresses the importance of critical thinking in evaluating information obtained through various sources, including psychological research. Critical thinking is an invaluable skill in life as well as for completing your Capstone Project. For this Discussion, you will examine resources on critical thinking and the Capstone Project Required Content Overview to explain the importance of critical thinking and how you will apply this skill to completing the Capstone Project. To prepare: From the Learning Resources, review the Capstone Project Required Content Overview document. From the Learning Resources, review the Critical Thinking Resources. Review the course Syllabus. Post an explanation of the importance of critical thinking and the implications of not questioning information. Based on this weeks Learning Resources, describe how you will use critical thinking to develop the Capstone paper.
