Essay Prep.
Preparation
- Review the section in Chapter 7 of the textbook on White Collar Crimes (Textbook: Schaefer, R.T. (2019). Sociology: A brief introduction (13th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. )No outside/web sources, please.
- Review the FBI web site on White Collar crimes
- Read the following sections on content paragraphs to prepare for your writing assignment this week
- You may also want to review the APA guidelines for citations and references
Read about the following components that are present in all good research papers:
- Content Paragraphs (with in-text citations)
- References
- To the textbook
- To the FBI web pages you use
What is a Content Paragraph?
Content paragraphs are the “meat†of your paper. They are approximately 5 sentences, are based on research, and contain citations to your sources. Following your outline, each paragraph has a different but related topic to discuss. In a research paper, content paragraphs are based on material from other scholarly sources; they are not based on personal opinion or experience. Content paragraphs must contain citations to show where the information is from.
Assignment
Time to Start Writing! You most use in-text citations in your essay.
This week you should have the following in your Essay Prep document:
- Introduction
- First Content Paragraph Paragraph
- define white collar crimes (from the textbook)(Textbook: Schaefer, R.T. (2019). Sociology: A brief introduction (13th ed.). McGraw-Hill Education. )No outside/web sources, please.
- identify, define, and describe one white collar crime (from the FBI web site)
- include APA formatted citations
- Second Content Paragraph
- identify, define, and describe second white collar crime (from the FBI web site)
- include APA formatted citations
- Third Content Paragraph
- identify, define, and describe a third white collar crime (from the FBI web site)
- include APA formatted citations
- Conclusion
- APA Reference Page
- list your references to the textbook and the FBI web site(s) that you used to provide content for your paper
Since this is a research paper, please do not include any personal opinion. Rather, summarize what you learn in the textbook and the FBI web site.