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Your though leader article is due this Sunday at 11:59 pm EST!!!

It must have:

**Interesting introduction

**At least 3 detailed, supporting paragraphs with 5 credible sources backing up your ideas

**Excellent conclusion

IF YOU LOOK AT THE GRADING RUBRIC FOR THE THOUGHT LEADER ARTICLE, YOU WILL FIND:

“Reference page was complete with more than 5 references cited consistently.”

YOU NEED 5 REFERENCES IN YOUR THOUGHT LEADER ARTICLE

You can use APA or digital citation with hyperlinks.

Digital Citation Guide for Cheddar.docx

Here is a helpful handout that is easy to use for APA citation.

UG APA intext and Reference Help.docx

Every time you use someone’s ideas, you must have an intext citation at the end of the sentence that it is in, or as a signal phrase at the beginning of the sentence. I have done this in all of my HGTE responses to you. Use them as a model

If you are directly quoting someone, you also need quotation marks around the words AND an intext citation. With a direct quote, your intext citation must also include para. X or p. X (para. stands for paragraph for websites and p. stands for page for printed material), depending on the type of source. For every intext citation, you need a reference.

However, you might have several intext citations from the same sources, and that only requires one reference.

The Purdue University Online Writing Lab is very helpful for using APA:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/02/

Digital Citation with hyperlinks: In this case all the information is in the article:

• To create a hyperlink, click on insert and a hyperlink icon will come up:
• • To create a hyperlink, click on insert and a hyperlink icon will come up:

  

  • Or place the source’s URL on a document, right click at the end of it and a box for hyperlink will come up:

  Here is an article that I wrote and published in LinkedIn with hyperlinks:
  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/business-english-management-gail-summerskill/Here are some sample student articles with APA citations:
  Trevor Ennis Revision.pdf
  
  
  Tatum Thought Leadership Exercise _Revised_.pdf
  
  

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• Week 7 Overview & Assignment 2 Due Fe 23

  Posted on: Monday, February 17, 2020 9:25:54 AM EST

  Please watch the walk-through video for Assignment 2 and tell me something that you found interesting in it when you answer your CC: https://youtu.be/wOaZGZ9UI8sThis week we will be discussing Twitter. Don’t forget your main post done by Wednesday at midnight. Read Social Networking for Career Success: Chapters 8 -10
  Here are the Cheddar Chat questions: **Why is Twitter an excellent platform for personal branding? **How can you position yourself as an expert on Twitter, and take advantage of popular hashtags and content? **What are some hashtags that you want to have associated with your business or personal brand?HGTE: It Tweeting a skill? Why or why not? Are you skilled at it?Also, on Sunday this week, your thought leader article is due. I sent out several announcements about it last week. Here is some more information for you. YOU NEED 5 CREDIBLE SOURCES. You can use APA formatting (APA Times New Roman 12 font, double spacing) in the provided template in week 7 or a blog format, which I attach here, below, in the form of student samples. If you want to do it like a blog, still include a References page. If you want to hyperlink the sources instead of intext citation, I will accept that, too.Here is what you must have (1-2 pages) :**Introduction, with hook and thesis**Body paragraphs about your idea with intext citations to back up your ideas (APA format) and **ConclusionDirections:
  COM510_Cheddar MBA_Assignment 2.pdf
  Assignment 2Thought Leadership Practice Template.docx HOW TO CITE YOUR 5 SOURCES
  Digital Citation Guide for Cheddar.docx
  Student models of both formats:
  Bernstein PRACTICE THOUGHT LEADERSHIP EXERCISE – Brett Bernstein Final.pdf
  Guiterrez Assignment 2_Thought Leadership Practice Exercise-2.pdf