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Response to Shawn:
Thank you for your response. The master's in am going for is in Professional Studies in
Education. My bachelor's degree is in drawing and painting with majors, first in architecture, and
then in art along with all of the other courses (as listed in my ED 5006 Profile). For the last
several years I have been teaching ESL classes in various countries.
For my course paper I have thought about adding to the idea of the Action Plan paper which I did
for ED 5004 which involves direct democracy and this could be done with both the K-12 and the
post-secondary (as well as continuing education) in mind. The other possibility is something
involving ESL -- so I need to decide on them. I could possibly even mix them together in a
combined, coordinated and interconnected project. I'll keep you informed as other ideas come to
mind. Please let me know if you, or anyone, has any ideas about a possible project.
I don't know if you saw them but I sent you some questions in the U1 Expectations section but I
will put them here below for you to please answer when you can:
Here are a few questions I have to ask at the beginning:
1. Concerning the final projects: you mentioned that "Final projects/papers (l electronic copy-sent
in Word and one hard copy)". Since I have WordPad and WordPerfect on my computer, can the
emailed attachment be sent as a file (which is composed in PageMaker 7) exported in to Adobe
Acrobat Reader 5? I think almost every computer can open Acrobat Reader, in fact, Reader is
needed and required for the Capella courses.
By "hard copy", I assume you mean a paper print out sent to you in Kent, Ohio. Is that correct?
2. One question I have is about the APA style in documenting references. The book mentions
listing only the most recent printing but some books might have been written long ago. For
example, the manual would say to use, for a book first published in 1848:
Tocqueville, de Alexis. (2000). Democracy in America. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
How about:
Tocqueville, de Alexis. (1848, 2000). Democracy in America. New York: HarperCollins
Publishers, Inc.
instead? That way the first time reader would know that the book is not a recently written book.
I am also not sure where to put the "de" in the name.
3. Also, I am not sure what topic to write the final paper on. When should we know that? I am
thinking of writing a complementary addition extending and developing the Action Plan written
for ED 5004 or perhaps about the classroom experiences I have had.