For this Assignment, you will focus on a female serial killer of your choice. The Assignment requires you to answer a series of questions regarding your chosen female serial killer’s background and significant life events, tracing them through childhood and into adulthood. Taking this into account, you must also select three criminological theories that might explain her crimes.Create a 14 slide PowerPoint presentation using the Walden University presentation template. In addition, include audio narration that addresses the following:Provide a chronological overview of the female serial killer’s family background and identify significant life events that occurred from birth to teenage years (3 slides).Provide a chronological overview of the female serial killer’s crimes and significant life events that occurred from teenage years through the serial murders she committed (5 slides).Select three criminological theories and describe how each theory explains her crimes (6 slides – 2 slides per theory).Running head: ANALYZING SCHOLARLY WRITING
Analyzing Scholarly Writing
Heather Clark
Walden University
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Analyzing Scholarly Writing
Scholarly writings such as journals and texts are valuable information as they contain
substantial content regarding different concepts. Academic disciplines have employed the use of
scholarly articles to refer to specific information that occurs within the texts. However, authors
employ various strategies to ensure that their work is of the utmost quality that meets the
standards for academics for the learners. Within the scholarly writing, authors create specific
concepts such as showing evidence, targeting a particular audience and ensuring that their
content meets the writing standards.
In scholarly writing, evidence occurs from the authors’ text to provide support to a
specific theory. Nonetheless, authors evidence can also be a particular theoretical concept to
support the author’s ideas. Leslie-Bole & Perramond, in their article “Oyster feuds: conflicting
discourses and outcomes in Point Reyes” focuses on a conflict occurring in Point Reyes,
California. From the situation happening on the ground in California, the authors employ an ideal
strategy to help in the practical analysis of the case. For instance, Leslie-Bole & Perramond
(2017) use the “Foucauldian discourse analysis” in the article to analyze the conflict between the
“National Park Service and the Oyster Company”. Leslie-Bole & Perramond’s article seems to be
appropriate and has a recommendable writing style. The authors have arranged their work
beginning with an abstract, introduction, body and the methodology of their work. The language
meets the academic standards as it is not offensive or hard for students. They have also given
credit to the information they referred from foreign sources. Various audiences, especially
students, can be aware of the authors’ message by researching the online media since the issue
addressed by the author is not a fantasy but a real situation. I can breakdown essential issues and
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topics that occur within the article to make it appropriate for an international audience.
Therefore, the article fully meets the professional standards for scholarly writing.
Furthermore, Rivera and Ward’s article “Toward an analytical framework for the study of
race and police violence” focuses on the racist violence that citizens receive from the police.
Therefore, they thoroughly study the matter that occurs in the real-life situation concerning
police violence. The authors content is appropriate as it adequately addresses the topic with
proper grammar. However, they are against racist violence perpetrated against African
Americans by the police (Rivera and Ward, 2017). Rivera and Ward’s article meets professional
standards of scholarly writing as they have used citations, proper language and proper writing
styles that make it easy to understand the content of the article.
On the other hand, Piotrowski’s article “Open Government Reform movement: The case
of the open government partnership and US transparency policies” focuses on the issue of open
government partnership and the US transparency policies as he provides a theoretical concept of
the two policies within the US government. The author suggests that the creation of an “open
government reform movement had limited influence in the US context and required further
research” (Piotrowski, 2017). The article meets the standards of article writing as the author uses
a proper language, and the work is systematic to ensure proper understanding of the content. The
author’s message can create a perception of an audience as the author focuses on issues within
the American Government. However, the audience can be aware of the author’s idea for further
research. I can make the article more appropriate for an international audience by emphasizing
on vitally essential points within the article.
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Scholarly articles provide theoretical concepts on the real topic. They involve results
from research conducted by the authors to give essential ideas concerning the subject of various
audiences. The scholarly articles analyzed meets the professional standards of academic writing
as they have proper writing styles, good grammar, systematic arrangement of work and adequate
citations for different ideas.
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References
Leslie-Bole, H., & Perramond, E. P. (2017). Oyster feuds: conflicting discourses and outcomes
in Point Reyes, California. Journal of Political Ecology, 24(1), 144-166.
Piotrowski, S. J. (2017). The “Open Government Reform” movement: The case of the open
government partnership and US transparency policies. The American Review of Public
Administration, 47(2), 155-171.
Rivera, M. A., & Ward, J. D. (2017). Toward an analytical framework for the study of race and
police violence. Public administration review, 77(2), 242-250.
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[Your Name Here]
Walden University
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• Go to the Home tab at the top and click the
New Slide or Layout button to access different
formatting for your slides.
• Choose formatting that presents your
information in the most logical way.
• Use consistent, grammatically parallel
format for bulleted lists (for example, on this
slide, each element begins with an imperative
verb).
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• Keep font of text consistent.
• Be sure headings are consistent in their
spacing, placement, size, etc.
• Consider using the slide after the title slide to
summarize your presentation’s points (like an
abstract for a paper).
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Your slides can also contain entire paragraphs,
like this one does. Citation rules apply to
presentations just as they do to papers—when
using or referencing another author’s ideas,
you must cite that source. When incorporating
a citation in a slide, do so just as you would in a
traditional paper (Smith, 2010). According to
Jones (2007), presentations aren’t very different
from papers!
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Use APA style
rules to format
any tables and
figures in your
presentation:
Figure 1. Bar graph showing useful information. From
“Utilizing bar graphs,” by A. Jones, 2011, Journal of
Handy Graphs, 76(2), p. 3. Reprinted with permission.
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• Remember to adhere to any assignment
guidelines regarding presentation format.
This template contains suggestions only.
• Keep in mind that there is no such thing as an
“APA standard PowerPoint.” Review
http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2010/09/dearprofessor.html for more information!
References
Always include a reference list at the end of your
presentation, just like you would in a paper.
Reference list entries take the same format they
would in a paper:
Jones, P. (2004). This great book. New York, NY: Publisher.
Smith, W., & Cat, D. (2010). How to make a good presentation
great. Presentations Quarterly, 45(4), 56-59.
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