Instructions Consider your experiences at work, school, and in your personal life. You have, at some point, been asked to work with a group to achieve a particular goal. It might have been a group research project, a new marketing plan, a learning plan, a schedule to roll out new technology, planning a wedding, or even planning and creating a large family meal. In many collaborative efforts like these, there are disagreements. Select one collaborative experience from your past that involved some disagreements or significant differences of opinion. Write a short (2-page) paper in APA style discussing the following elements: Describe the project that you were working on, including the people involved. Explain the problem that you encountered with the group. How was that problem overcome? What was the end result of encountering and dealing with that problem? What do you think was the cause of the problem? How much of the problem came from miscommunication, either from you or from other people involved? What did you do to help resolve the problem? If you were able to relive that experience, how would you change the way that you approached the encountered problem? How would you communicate differently? How, ultimately, was the conflict resolved? Grading Rubric F F C B A 0 1 2 3 4 Not Submitted No Pass Competence Proficiency Mastery Not Submitted Example used is not appropriate for the assignment. Example given has some relevance to the ideas of collaborative communication and problem solving. Example selected is generally relevant to the ideas of collaborative communication and problem solving. Example selected is clearly relevant to the ideas of collaborative communication and problem solving Not Submitted Problem encountered is not clearly explained or defined. Solution reached in the situation is unclearly or incompletely described. Problem encountered is included, but incompletely described or explained. Solution reached is described, but with little detail or explanation. Problem encountered is described well over all with some minor omissions or confusion. Solution reached is clearly explained with some detail. Problem encountered is clearly described and fully explained. Solution reached is defined clearly with significant detail. Not Submitted New approach to this situation not included or not significantly different from the original experience. New approach to the situation is different from the original experience but lacks clear definition or detail to fully explain these changes. New approach to the situation offers significant changes from the original experience in definable ways, with some detail to explain potential differences. New approach to the situation offers significant changes from the original experience in definable ways, with some detail to explain potential differences as well as a clear discussion of how this should change the experienced results. Not Submitted Personal contribution to the solution not included or no real contribution to the solution of the issue suggested. Resolution of issue not included. Personal contribution to the solution is presented with very little detail or explanation. Resolution of issue included but with few details. Contribution to the solution of the problem is clearly included with some detail and clear explanation. Resolution of issue is included with some detail. Contribution to the solution of the problem is clearly included with detail, explanation, and insight into the value of this contribution. Resolution of issue is included with clear detail and explanation. Not Submitted Frequent use of improper language, slang, or non-professional language. Language is generally appropriate for professional context with several lapses into informality or slang. Language shows use of formal professional English throughout with only minor lapses of informality and slang. Language shows proper formal professional English with no lapses of informality or slang. Tags: College culture research project collaborative work social work poor communication User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool’s honor code & terms of service.
Reference List: Basic Rules
Note: This page reflects the latest version of the APA Publication Manual (i.e., APA 7), which released in October 2019. The equivalent resource for the older APA 6 style can be found here.
This resource, revised according to the 7th edition APA Publication Manual, provides fundamental guidelines for constructing the reference pages of research papers. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, (7th ed.).
Note: Because the information on this page pertains to virtually all citations, we’ve highlighted one important difference between APA 6 and APA 7 with an underlined note written in red.
Formatting a Reference List
Your reference list should appear at the end of your paper. It provides the information necessary for a reader to locate and retrieve any source you cite in the body of the paper. Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text.
Your references should begin on a new page separate from the text of the essay; label this page “References” in bold, centered at the top of the page (do NOT underline or use quotation marks for the title). All text should be double-spaced just like the rest of your essay.
Basic Rules for Most Sources
- All lines after the first line of each entry in your reference list should be indented one-half inch from the left margin. This is called hanging indentation.
- All authors’ names should be inverted (i.e., last names should be provided first).
- Authors’ first and middle names should be written as initials.
- For example, the reference entry for a source written by Jane Marie Smith would begin with “Smith, J. M.”
- If a middle name isn’t available, just initialize the author’s first name: “Smith, J.”
- Give the last name and first/middle initials for all authors of a particular work up to and including 20 authors (this is a new rule, as APA 6 only required the first six authors). Separate each author’s initials from the next author in the list with a comma. Use an ampersand (&) before the last author’s name. If there are 21 or more authors, use an ellipsis (but no ampersand) after the 19th author, and then add the final author’s name.
- Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last name of the first author of each work.
- For multiple articles by the same author, or authors listed in the same order, list the entries in chronological order, from earliest to most recent.
- When referring to the titles of books, chapters, articles, reports, webpages, or other sources, capitalize only the first letter of the first word of the title and subtitle, the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and proper nouns.
- Note again that the titles of academic journals are subject to special rules. See section below.
- Italicize titles of longer works (e.g., books, edited collections, names of newspapers, and so on).
- Do not italicize, underline, or put quotes around the titles of shorter works such as chapters in books or essays in edited collections.
Basic Rules for Articles in Academic Journals
- Present journal titles in full.
- Italicize journal titles.
- Maintain any nonstandard punctuation and capitalization that is used by the journal in its title.
- For example, you should use PhiloSOPHIA instead of Philosophia, or Past & Present instead of Past and Present.
- Capitalize all major words in the titles of journals. Note that this differs from the rule for titling other common sources (like books, reports, webpages, and so on) described above.
- This distinction is based on the type of source being cited. Academic journal titles have all major words capitalized, while other sources’ titles do not.
- Capitalize the first word of the titles and subtitles of journal articles, as well as the first word after a colon or a dash in the title, and any proper nouns.
- Do not italicize or underline the article title.
- Do not enclose the article title in quotes.
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
- Deep blue: The mysteries of the Marianas Trench.
- …but you would write the journal title as follows:
- Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication
- So, for example, if you need to cite an article titled “Deep Blue: The Mysteries of the Marianas Trench” that was published in the journal Oceanographic Study: A Peer-Reviewed Publication, you would write the article title as follows:
Please note: While the APA manual provides examples of how to cite common types of sources, it does not cover all conceivable sources. If you must cite a source that APA does not address, the APA suggests finding an example that is similar to your source and using that format. For more information, see page 282 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed.
