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• Detailed online explanation of APA style
• Shamika Edward's data
• This guide to the use of APA style will be helpful as you write your paper in this course.
• The Journal of Public Affairs Education is one of the many PA journals that uses APA style in each of its articles.
• If you receive an "I" grade this semester and if you enroll in the summer 2010 semester, you must have satisfactorily completed your capstone project and you must have presented it to an MPA faculty committee prior to the end of the second week of the summer of 2010. I must be aware of this in order to notify Ms. Calhoun who will initiate the necessary paperwork for the grade change. Otherwise, your grade for PADM 5905 will automatically convert to an F. You will have failed the course and you will have failed out of the MPA program.
• If you receive an "I" grade this semester and if you DO NOT enroll in the summer 2010 semester, you must have satisfactorily completed your capstone project and you must have presented it to an MPA faculty committee prior to the end of the second week of the fall semester of 2010. I must be aware of this in order to notify Ms. Calhoun who will initiate the necessary paperwork for the grade change. Otherwise, your grade for PADM 5905 will automatically convert to an F. You will have failed the course and you will have failed out of the MPA program.