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The Academic Standards Guide for the Student enrolled at Ontario Bible Institute.

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How to Design and Layout an Assignment Paper

Faculty of Ontario Bible Institute

Assignments are an important part of your course grading scheme.

If the classroom lecture hours are relatively short, the balance of the

required hours to make the intensive class a College-level course are

compensated by the professor in the handing out of student

assignments, projects, and/or internships, depending on the nature of

the course.

Some assignments may be in the form of:

Writing a Book Report (length of Faculty’s choosing)

An Exam to review your Knowledge of the Course Subject

Material

An Essay on a given Topic that is related to the Subject being

taught

In each case, the readability of the Assignment is very important to both

the professor and the student. Therefore it is requested that all work

submitted be typed in Times New Roman font, no greater than 12 point

font size, double-spaced, with headings in bold. Please also ensure that

sub-headings are in bold as well.

Included in the OBI Academic Standards Guide is a sample of a

completed assignment on Page ____. Please keep this guide as a

reference document for your projects and assignments. Any diversions

from the standard model may result in the professor returning the

assignment for replacement, or loss of marks.

Citation Preference:

OBI prefers the standardized MLA reference and citation style for all

documents. Other styles such as APA or Chicago are accepted, but for

those not familiar with these styles, we highly recommend you use MLA.

The following is a section on MLA reference and citation style for those

learning for the first time, or for those who require a review.

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MLA Reference & Citation Style

Faculty of Ontario Bible Institute

References provide the exact location for the primary sources of

information used in the text of your assignments. The bibliography (list

of works cited) on the other hand, collectively provides the list from

which the citations were extracted from.

CAUTION: Ontario Bible Institute considers plagiarism as “the

presentation of the work of another author in such a way as to give one’s

reader reason to think it to be one’s own.” Plagiarism, in every academic

institution, is a form of academic fraud.

In MLA style, you make clear your references by including parenthetical

citations within your text. This is what refers your reader of examiner to

the alphabetical bibliography, which appears at the end of the document

on a separate page. Below is an example:

“The first disciples realized that God had entered right into our

own religious mind-set and, through Jesus, became the final

sacrifice. There was nothing left for us to do to make ourselves

right before God” (Day, 85).

The citation “(Day, 85)” informs the reader or examiner that the

quotation/citation originates on page 85 of a document by the author

named “Day.” In consultation with the bibliography, the reader would

find the following information under the name Day:

Day, Tim. God Enters Stage Left: Plot Twist. Oakville: The

Meeting House, 2013. Print.

The bibliography may provide a second work by this author, which in

accordance with the MLA style, the reference would appear in the list

with three hyphens substituting the author’s name. The following is a

fictitious example:

---, The History of the Old Testament. Nashville: Thomas Nelson,

2013. Print.

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Parenthetical references should be brief, straightforward and clear. If

the context of the sentence or paragraph makes clear which document

in the bibliography the citation is coming from, then only the pages are

necessary. For example:

John C. Warren reports on fossil impressions at the rocks of the

Connecticut River that “while these deposits were taking place in

the soft condition, portions of vegetable matters might become

intermixed; and that these, with the impressions of the feet and

other parts of animals and unorganized substances, might be

preserved by the process of desiccation” (14).

The parenthetical reference “(14),” in combination with the mention of

John C. Warren at the beginning of the paragraph, clarifies to the reader

or teacher that the citation comes from page 14 of the following

document listed in the bibliography:

Warren, John C. Remarks on some Fossil Impressions in the

Sandstone rocks of Connecticut River. Boston: John Wilson and

Son, 1854. Print.

The following are some examples of MLA bibliography formats for

various authors and types of sources.

Books

One Author: Mathison, Keith A. A Reformed Approach to

Science and Scripture. Sanford, FL.: Ligioner Ministries, 2013.

Print.

Two Authors: Bowman Jr, Robert M. and J. Ed Komoszewski.

Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ.

Grand Rapids, MI.: Kregel Publications, 2007. Print.

Three Authors: Vardiman, Larry, Andrew A. Snelling, and

Eugene F. Chaffin. Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: A

Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative. El Cajon, CA.:

Institute for Creation Research, 2000. Print.

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More Than Three Authors: Zacharias, Ravi, et al. Beyond

Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend. Nashville, TN.: Thomas

Nelson, 2007. Print.

Translation: Garcia Marquez, Gabriel. Living to Tell the Tale.

Trans. Edith Grossman. New York: Knopf, 2003. Print.

Articles

Dizon, Luis. Can Evolutionary Processes Build New Structures?

HisDominion Vol. II (2014): 16-23. Print.

Website

Martins, Steven. The Prevalence of Baal of Peor: Unmasking

Pornography. Evangelium & Apologia Ministries, September

2014. Web 30 September 2014.

http://eamcanada.org/2014/09/19/the-prevalence-of-baal-of-

peor-unmasking-pornography/

Dissecting the Complete Bibliography Source Citation

Book:

(Last Name, First Name). (Title in Italics). (City of Publishing):

(Publisher), (Year of Publishing). Print.

Articles:

(Last Name, First Name). (Title of Article in Italics). (Name of

Magazine or Journal) (Edition or Volume No.) (Year in

Parenthesis): (Pages). (Print or Electronic?).

Website:

(Last Name, First Name). (Title of WebPage). (Title of Website),

(Month & Year of Online Publishing). Web (Day, Month and Year

of Website Access). (URL).

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The following is a sample of a completed assignment, including the

cover page format. Please keep this guide as a reference document for

your projects and assignments.

Cover Page

Jeremiah Dos Santos

Program of Enrollment: Certificate in Pastoral Ministry

Professor: Dr. Kumari Pradhana

Ministerial Ethics

(Date of Submission)

Paper for Partial Completion of Course:

Abortion: Is It Right or Wrong?

Ministerial Ethics

Ontario Bible Institute

Date of Submission:

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Table of Content

Introduction Pg. 1

Growing Fetus Pg. 1

What is your Child’s Real Birthday? Pg. 2

What is an Abortion? Pg. 3

Abortion and Christianity Pg. 4

Some Controversial Issues Pg. 4

Conclusion Pg. 5

References Pg. 6

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Ministerial Ethics Jeremiah Dos Santos Certificate Program

Introduction

Abortion is a controversial issue discussed by many people, organizations,

and governments. Different groups have different opinions and they act

accordingly. Some of them try to justify the issue and balance the consequence

saying that it is acceptable depending on some ‘specific reasons.’ Thousands of

babies are aborted each day around the world. The statistics state that 300

abortions are taking place in Canada every day, while it is 126,000 in the world

(CCBR).

Then some questions keep popping up when talking about abortions; such

as, is it fair to kill unborn babies? Why only killing them & not the children

who are already here on the earth, or why not their parents? Are they being

killed because they can’t fight back, or because they are not matured enough to

get defensive reactions? Are babies’ lives worthless & adults’ lives worthy?

The time has come to clarify the issue, set a strong determination and

proclaim to the entire world that ‘the truth is truth.’ The truth cannot be

changed from person to person, religion to religion, people to people or from

country to country. The truth must be the same and never changes. So, let us

find the pearl of truth about abortion in this corrupted and polluted ocean of

confusion.

Growing Fetus

A sperm and an ovary get together and make a zygote. In other words, two

living cells from two people (male and female) make one living cell. That

single cell (zygote) develops into an embryo, then to a fetus, and then to a

complete human being within 9 months in his/her mother’s womb. Let’s

consider how this baby is growing.

At the conception, fertilization and implantation are taking place in the

fallopian tube and in the womb. The new baby’s life begins at this stage,

because conception occurs when these two living cells meet together. Then, the

baby starts to grow rapidly and secretly in his mother’s womb.

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Bibliography

CCBR. Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. 2013. Web. 30 September

2014. <http://www.unmaskingchoice.ca/training/classroom/challenges/stats>.

Christian Patriots for Life. The Miracle of your Developing Baby! 2014. Web.

30 September 2014. <http://cpforlife.org/developing_baby_pro_life.htm>.

Pg. 6

The sample does not feature the entire paper but does provide a glimpse

as to the expectation that will be required for every student enrolled at

the Ontario Bible Institute for the MLA citation and paper format.

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