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Euclid Response Paper
Student Name: Luke Swem Beba
Student Country: Nigeria
Program Code: ACA-401
Course Code or Name: International Academic and Professional Paper Writing
Period 1
Professor / Assigned Tutor: Professor Laurent Cleenewerck
This page uses ☐US English (for spelling, punctuation rules and formatting of
references).
The Rule of Style is: Turabian
Note: This document is in US letter (“8.5”x11”” format)
Euclid Coursepack ACA-401
1) Introduction
Academic endeavors are achieved through serious mental/speculative and pragmatic
search/inquiry into new ideas that continue to evolve around the human life. To achieve
this feat I shall try to attempt a concise summary on ACA-401 Course pack based on
writing effective and acceptable paper that meets the reading, comprehensive academic
and international standard.
Here in this EUCLID Course pack ACA-401, I shall attempt summaries of: Essay
Writing, Plagiarism, Some rules of thumb for writing papers, LIT-101 Review, and
Chicago style and usage.
2) Unit One: Essay Writing: The Basics
Persuasion is the keyword towards an academic essay. It is based on convincing
evidences. For an academic essay to achieve its objectives I should be able to answer a
question or task from the following: (i) establish a thesis statement and an argument. (ii)
Present or discuss something to develop a thesis via reasoning and evidence. (iii)
Supporting evidence and information from academic texts or credible sources.
Essay writing requires many stages. For example, I can’t write a successful essay
unless I give myself enough time to read, research, think, and write. So first and
foremost, I must start work early and avoid procrastination
The central behavior of a good essay is analyzing and answering the essay’s question
which I must define the question and analyze the task. I must also make sure that I

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understand exactly what the question requires and identify the key words and clarify the
approach I am required to take.
Secondly, researching provides me the knowledge and evidence that allows me to
develop a thesis and argument to answer the essay question. Therefore, reading and
researching are vital to my essay writing.
Good note making can help organize my ideas and keep me focused on my reading.
It can also help me keep a record of my reading and help me to locate information.
Jotting down notes on a reading in the margins and/or highlighting important
sections can help me to better understand a text to some extent. Effective note making
skills enable me to select the information I need from written sources, quickly and
efficiently. This guide shows me how to make clear and well organized notes that are
useful for every aspect of study, (Ferfolja, 2002: 2).
Thirdly, organizing ideas make it easier for good essay writing. I could draw up a
second plan with the following considerations:
1. Decide on a possible answer to the question.
2. Look through notes and choose examples to provide evidence to support an
answer.
3. Decide which points to discuss, and in which order.
4. Write all this down in point form and this will becomes an essay plan.
Finally, planning is essentially for a good essay because it helps me to organize my
initial thoughts and ideas about the topic and write a preliminary essay plan to guide my
research. Essay plans equally help me to work out how I could answer the question and
which information I could use. The structure of essay contains the introduction, the body,
and the conclusion.
3) Unit Two: Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s ideas or language without acknowledging
that they were not created by him or her. This definition applies to ideas, words and
unusual structures regardless of where one finds them—in a book, on a webpage, in an
email. Whenever I include another person’s information or wording in a document, I
must acknowledge the source and include a citation that will tell my readers where I
obtained it—otherwise I am guilty of plagiarism. Plagiarism is sometimes seen as
intellectual theft.
Plagiarism in the professional world can lead to, at the very least, profound
embarrassment and loss of reputation and, often, to loss of employment.
Every writer has his or her own intellectual identity, though most ideas inevitably
come from outside sources. A responsible use of sources recognizes that identity
distinguishes clearly between what I think and what the sources think. It is no sin to
accept another person’s idea…. But I must interpose myself between the sources and my
writing, thus making other peoples’ ideas my own through a process of critical scrutiny
(White & Bloom, 1993: 445).

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Finally in this unit, I learned about quotations and paraphrasing together with the
technicalities of citing and when not to cite. Also I am well informed on format of citing
book references and online respectively.
4) Unit Three: Some Rules of Thumb for Writing Papers
In this unit, the emphasis is termed at establishing a main thesis where arguments can
be substantiated and at the same time enables the writer to stay focused by critically
assessing theories that revolves round the immediate problem he intends to tackle.
5) Unit Four: LIT-101 REVIEW
In this section, 11 important reminders are emphasized towards the use of clauses,
comma, conjunction, semicolon etc. The second part of the section comprises of
questions and answers that determine the use of clauses, commas, conjunctions and
semicolon, and the use of numerical.
For the purpose of this course, there are two important styles of writing, the UK v
US style guide. In this course-pack, the EUCLID recommends the Chicago Rules
(Turabian), but other internationally recognized Rules are equally not restricted.
A style guide according to the Turabian is a means of documenting an approach as a
writer to certain elements of writing style that need to be consistent. Styles guides for the
Turabian are generally associated with certain types of writing like technical writing,
commercial or business writing, journalism and web copywriting.
6) Unit Five:American vs. British English Basic Differences
and Influences of Change
The unit is all about the differences in the use of the English language expression in
words and writing, such as the differences in pronunciation and spellings etc. Also, the
use of grammar, syntax, punctuation, same concept, different terms or expressions; same
word, differences in style, connotation and frequency, etc.
Finally, there are different layouts of sample corrections to papers spanning from
introduction and summary to titles and sub-titles, what to consider and what to avoid in
paper writing, etc.
7) Unit Six: CMS CRIB SHEET BY DR. ABEL SCRIBE
This unit encompasses the Chicago style of formatting books and research papers
documented in the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) 2003, and Kate Turabian’s Manual
for Writers of Term papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 1996.

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The unit contains (1) the Chicago Style and Usage: Abbreviations and Acronyms,
Capitalization, Compound Words, Emphasis on Italics/Quotes, Numbers and Dates, and
Quotations. (2) Chicago Page Formatting: Title and Text Page, Footnotes, Headings and
Lists, Bibliography and Tables, and Table Notes. (3) Chicago End/Footnotes: Authors
and Books, Journals and Newspapers, Reports and Papers, and References and
Documents.
Finally, the unit also contains Latin abbreviations and expressions commonly used in
writing and expressions.
8) Unit Seven:Academic Writing for Graduate Students
This is a textbook designed to help graduate students with their academic writings. It
has evolved out of both research and teaching experience. The approach is rhetorical and
it is much concerned with developing sound academic writings and improving texts.
This textbook is 249 pages with eight units or chapters including appendices,
selected references and index.
It focuses on the approach to academic writing, purpose and strategy, organization,
style, the language focus – the vocabulary shift, formal grammar and style flow, linking
words and phrases, summary word, presentation and positioning. It also stresses on
writing general-specific texts such as sentence definitions, the grammar of definitions,
extended definitions, contrastive definitions, comparative definitions, and
generalizations.
However, there is emphasis on the writing procedure like the problem, process, and
solution. There is equally an elaborate description on data commentary with focuses on:
strength of claim, structure of data commentary, location elements and summaries, and
language focuses. Also, qualifying comparisons, concluding a commentary, dealing with
“problems,” dealing with graphs, referring to lines on graphs, dealing with chronological
data, and prepositions of time.
Finally, constructing a research paper could be in two (2) directions (i) It must
intend to look at the overview of the research paper methods, imperatives in research
papers, justifying the methodology, interpreting the results, citing agreement with
previous studies, commenting on the data, admitting difficulties in interpretation,
pointing out discrepancies, and calling for further research. (ii) it must involve the
remaining parts of a research paper like: introduction sections, discussion sections,
acknowledgments, titles, and abstracts.

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9) Unit Eight: The BBC NEWS STYLEGUIDE BY JOHN
ALLEN
The BBC News Style guide is fashioned to set the highest standards in accuracy,
fairness, impartiality and in the use of language. This style guide represents some of John
Allen’s extraordinary wisdom surrounding the use of English in written and spoken
communications.
This style guide helps the writer to explore some of the complexities of modern
English usage and to make own decisions about what does and does not work. It
improves scripts and general writing, and makes one better informed, challenged etc.
The BBC News Style guide is characterized by different parts of approaches ranging
from its importance to parts of speech usage (noun, verb, pronoun, adjective, adverb, and
preposition). The guide also reiterates the basic rule of writing as knowing what you want
to say. The key to good writing is simple thoughts simply expressed by the use of short
sentences and shorts words.
Also, the use of abbreviations and acronyms are important but as a good writer, you
never assume that people you have discussed your story with know what some particular
abbreviations or acronyms mean, it doesn’t follow that the majority of your audiences
know. So it’s usually better to give the name of an organization at first reference and then
use its short form later.
Furthermore, in writing attribution should come first by identifying the source of an
assertion before making it – always say who before you say what he/she said or did.
Again, the use of collective nouns which can either be plural or singular is very
importantly considered here. According to Jonathan Swift in The BBC News Styleguide
(p. 31), proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
10) CONCLUSION
Here, I find interesting the concerted efforts made towards putting together this
compendium of ACA-401 course pack. It has introduced into my academic world a
freshness of study guide and various writing styles that I could comfortably adopt to meet
the internationally acceptable standards.