The Reaction Paper Assignment You will be writing a 12,000 word Reaction Paper in this course using the instructions and links found below. You will be completing the following tasks and gathering the following information for your paper: 1. Watch the epigenetics video from PBS. Begin your paper by defining epigenetics in your own words and discussing your reaction to the video. 2. Research and locate one article on epigenetics (select a study on research conducted on humans, not plants or insects) from a reputable academic source: Reputable Sources: journal articles government publications based on research Do not use: magazines of any sort, printed or online Wikipedia How to Perform Your Research Use the College Library in person or online (log in with your MDC ID number. Your password is the last four digits of your MDC ID unless you have changed it). 3. Read the epigenetics article you find. Continue your paper with a discussion of the epigenetics article. Be sure to paraphrase (put things in your own words) and be sure to cite the author(s) of the article you find using APA style (see the section below on using APA style). Aim for about a page for this part of your paper. 4. Complete the Family History-Dr. Oz.pdf. Discuss the concept of epigenesis in light of your family history. Aim for one page for this section of your paper. 5. Complete the BlueZones.com Vitality Compass Life Expectancy Questionnaire. From the BlueZones home page, click on Live Longer and then on Vitality Compass. Print the report and integrate your findings into your discussion. Aim for another page. You do not have to attach the report to the paper. 6. Discuss how you can improve your health and longevity in light of your findings in these questionnaires, your understanding of epigenetics, and your knowledge of your family history. This should be your final page. You can go over or under a page for any of the sections of the paper as long as your total paper is 12,000 words not counting the references. General Rules for an A Paper 12,000 words Original work; plagiarism score of less than 10% (90% original work) Double-spaced, 12-point font, 1-inch margins Covers all 6 tasks Spellchecked College-level grammar Cite your article APA style. No abstract, no cover Place your name and reference number on the first page. Use page numbers. Submit the paper by the deadline in the Calendar & Checklist (usually Week 12 in 16-week semesters, and Week 9 in 12-week semesters) in the Turnitin Drop Box located in the Study Guides, Exams & Drop Box folder. The deadline is also shown in the Calendar. The box will open on the day after the Midterm Exam so that you have time to submit your paper, review the originality report, and resubmit your paper if necessary until you have a plagiarism score of under 10% (90% original work). If you resubmit, note that it takes 24 hours for your new score to show up in the Turnitin Drop Box. You will not be able to resubmit after the due date. Submission to Turnitin Drop Box The Turnitin Drop Box is in Blackboard Learn system. You do NOT have to go to Turnitin to submit your paper. The box will open the day after the Midterm closes. The box is in the Paper folder (these instructions are also copied to the Paper folder). Turnitin is a plagiarism checking software. It checks to see if your work is original. We have set the Turnitin Drop Box so you can submit your paper as many times as you want until the due date. That will allow you to check your plagiarism score and see where your work is not original. You can then rephrase that section and put it into your own words. The expectation in this course is that your paper scores no more than 10% in plagiarism. You will be able to resubmit your paper as many times as you need to in order to get it right. Note that it takes 24 hours to see your new plagiarism score after resubmission. No more than 2 or 3 short quotes in the entire paper, please. Avoiding Plagiarism You must be careful not to copy someone elses ideas and not to copy and paste ideas from the sources you find. Copying and pasting from someone elses work is considered plagiarism. You may use other peoples ideas, but you have to put them in your own words and reference the source. Putting things in your own words is called paraphrasing. And you must put the reference right after the idea. Needless to say, submitting plagiarized papers, including those copied from one of the Web sites that have free papers or even papers you can buy, will result in a penalty. That penalty is up to your instructor, but it will result in at least your receiving a ZERO GRADE for the paper. The paper is worth 10% of your grade in this course. Dont risk it! APA Style and References One thing you will need to do in college is learn how to find and use references. References support your ideas. College-level work must be supported by research. You are expected to do that for this paper. You will research, locate, and use one reputable source from the literature on the topic of epigenetics/epigenesis. The literature is composed of studies that have been conducted in a scholarly way to support ideas. Scholarly sources can be found in journals or in some Web sites, especially those that come from .edu domains (.edu is short for educational Web sites) or .gov domans (.gov are government sites). The College Libraries have dozens of good journals you can use. You will be using the College Library for this paper. You may do the research in person or use the Web to access our library. See your librarian for more information on finding credible sources. In APA style, you cite a source in two places: within the body of the paper where you use the idea or words of the author of the paper; and again in the Reference List at the end of the paper. For example, you might say, According to Researcher A (2011) epigenetics is What you must do is supply the researchers name within a sentence or at the end of a sentence in parenthesis (Researcher A, 2011). Then you give the full information for locating the study in the Reference List. Thats what Reference Lists are for: they allow the person reading your paper to look up your source if they want to. So remember, citing references APA style, requires two things: 1) that you cite the reference within the body of the paper, and 2) that you list the full reference at the end in the Reference List. APA Tutorial There are multiple tutorials and other training sources on APA style at the APA Web site. You do NOT have to buy the APA Manual to do this paper. References American Psychological Association (2011). APA style. Retrieved from http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx Link for Dr oz because link provided is not working: http://s.doctoroz.com/sites/default/files/im_uploads/TN-Family_history-form-PRINT.jpg MDC ID # G54307283
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