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Assignment - How Dementia Impacts Daily Living

Focus on the psychological changes of dementia that impacts older adults daily living, It is a research article; so no too descriptive but more of analyzing and synthesizing the articles you cite.

Suggestions:

1. Review APA style!!! Many of you have minor mistakes that can add up over an entire paper.

2. Make sure to state the question that should be answered by the end of the Introduction paragraph. This is important so the reader is not confused

3. On that point, use APA-style headers and sub-headers to split your paper into manageable chunks that will help point my mind to what is being discussed. Paragraphs are your friend.

4. Whenever you make a bold claim, make sure that you cite it. In fact, cite liberally within the document! The paper will go through TurnItIn which detects plagiarism. In order to not be misidentified as having plagiarized, cite the content excessively. Anyone who plagiarizes this paper is subject to receiving a 0% on the paper

5. The textbook does not count toward one of your academic journal references.

6. Please refrain from using "medical websites." This information can be easily found in an academic "review" of your topic within the journal articles. The only "website" that is permissible is a governmental website, but this will not count toward your reference requirements.

7. Do not quote. Almost never put quotes in the paper. Instead, use paraphrasing and cite the content in-text. Students last semester lost significant amounts of points because their entire paper was filled with quotes. write and synthesize, not copy and paste other authors' work.

8. Please try to stay within the page count. Brevity is difficult in academic writing.

9. Remember to analyze the studies that you cite. Simply giving information about a topic is not sufficient. I need to see that you can critically analyze the information by comparing/contrasting results, identifying limitations or future directions of the literature, finding commonalities or themes amongst the papers, etc.

10. When citing content from a review article, make sure that it is from the review article and not something that was a cited by them. For example, I read a review by Jester et al. (2019). If this is something that I am citing, "... and those with prior stroke history had an increased risk of hospitalization (Mills et al., 2014)." then I would not be citing (Jester et al., 2019) in my paper, I would read Mills and colleagues (2014) and then proceed to cite (Mills et al., 2014) in my paper. This is very important. The review article is exactly what it sounds like. It reviews the current literature. That said, it cites the authors appropriately for scientific statements that they made, and you should too.