Ontario in grip of second Covid-19 wave

Assignment #2

APA CITATION & REFERENCING (10%)

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This assignment is designed to assess your understanding of APA formatting and critical reading.

Read the online newspaper article “Ontario in grip of second Covid-19 wave” posted on Slate and answer the following questions. You will need to include paraphrases and quotes from the article with APA style in-text citations in some of your responses, as well as a reference page. Both should adhere to the guidelines in Ch. 24 of your Essential Communications textbook.  You should also review the Week 4 lecture on integrating quotations for the three-step model (claim/proof/explanation).

Double space your response, use 12 pt Times New Roman font and 1” margins throughout.  Use complete sentences and don’t include the questions themselves in your responses; simply number them 1 thru 10.

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1. Referring to the style guide on pages 296-297 of your textbook, create an APA style title page. Your title page should include a running head, page numbering and title (1 pt)
2. In 2-3 sentences, summarize the newspaper article’s main points. (2 pts)
3. What was Premier Ford’s reaction to the development? Identity one of the steps he has taken or recommends to reduce the spread. Include at least one direct quote that supports your conclusion, and ensure that the quote adheres to APA in-text citation formatting (1 pt)
4. To what does the writer of the article largely attribute the change in infection numbers to? Include at least one direct quote that supports your conclusion, and ensure that the quote adheres to APA in-text citation formatting (1 pt)
5. How has the infection impacted students at both the primary and post-secondary levels? Include at least one direct quote that supports your conclusion, and ensure that the quote adheres to APA in-text citation formatting (1 pt)
6. What recommendation did the president of the Ontario hospital association make about the outbreak? Include at least one direct quote that supports your conclusion, and ensure that the quote adheres to APA in-text citation formatting (1 pt)
7. How many cases does public health modeling suggest may occur in October? How does this compare with provincial outbreak numbers in the summer and what reasons does the article give for the change?  In your opinion, what steps would be most effective for reversing the increase?  Include at least one direct quote that supports your conclusion, and ensure that the quote adheres to APA in-text citation formatting (2 pts)
8. How does Ontario’s current situation compare with that of Quebec? In your opinion, what might account for the differences in the approaches taken by the two provincial governments?  (2pts)
9. Using the Sheridan library search interface, locate one additional newspaper article that discusses the increase of Covid-19 cases in Ontario. .  Compare the two articles.  Using direct quotes to support your conclusions, identify one area of their coverage that is the same or that reaches the same conclusions.  Using direct quotes, identify one aspect of their coverage that differs.  What is the tone of each article and what leads you to think that?  Use properly formatted in-text citations throughout. (3 pts)
10. Use the “Page Break” function to create a establish a new page. Referring to the APA reference templates on page 301, prepare a full reference entry for the two online newspaper articles you read (assigned + searched). (1 pt)