Title: TM Research Article Assignment
Course: ATEP - MMT: Module A: > Section: WELCOME TO MODULE A - DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING

Research an article about CPM or time management using the Internet or your library.  Then write a synopsis of the article with a citation.  Include your name, class and date.  Save the file to your folder on the desktop of your computer using your last name and first initial.  Upload it to the instructor for a grade.

NOTE:   A citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source.  It has several important purposes:

1. To uphold intellectual honesty (or avoiding plagiarism)
2. To attribute prior or unoriginal work and ideas to the correct sources
3. To allow the reader to determine independently whether the referenced material supports the author's argument in the claimed way
4. To help the reader gauge the strength and validity of the material the author has used

There are several different templates, or forms, that are generally accepted for citations, such as the Oxford, Harvard, MLA, American Sociological Association (ASA), American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago, Turabian, and others.  Each form has its advantages and disadvantages relative to the trade-offs of being informative.  Editors and educators often specify the citation system to use.  Each method will specify order of appearance for:  the publication date, title, and page numbers following the author name, in addition to conventions of punctuation, use of italics, emphasis, parentheses and quotation marks. We will be using the MLA style for this course.

The newer versions of most word processors have a "citation maker" built into their software.  Others are available by searching  the Internet.  Two are: http://www.citefast.com/ and  http://citationmachine.net.