Helping Others Overcome Addictions

PLEASE REVIEW WRITE A REVIEW SUMMARY REPORT ON EACH CHAPTER
below is the link for google book

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Helping_Others_Overcome_Addictions/AZK0JneJ-_oC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Helping+Others+Overcome+Addictions+by+Steve+McVey+and+Mike+Quarles&printsec=frontcover

SUMMERIZE EACH CHAPTER AND INCLUDE A CONCLUSION
Your paper must contain a title page. It should be a free-standing page, attached to, but not counted as part of the review.
Best Practices section of the Newburgh website describes how to make a title page. The numbers are not required.
1. The full title of the text

2. The name of the text’s author(s)
3. The name of the text’s publisher and the year the book was published (found within the first few pages)

4. Summarize each chapter and

LINK TO THE BOOK TO BE USED https://www.google.com/books/edition/Helping_Others_Overcome_Addictions/AZK0JneJ-_oC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Helping+Others+Overcome+Addictions+by+Steve+McVey+and+Mike+Quarles&printsec=frontcover

TIPS FOR WRITING

1. Common quotation marks usage

In American English, when ending a quotation you commonly first place the period which ends the sentence, then the closing quotation mark. See William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s The Elements of Style or www.grammarbook.com for more details. The same order holds true for partial sentences being quoted and ending with commas, colons, semicolons, etc. Most often, you will first place the punctuation mark, then place the closing quotation mark. There are some minor exceptions.

2. Grammar helps at no cost

From time to time, even the best writer and/or grammar student needs a resource guide for help with things like using apostrophes or quotation marks properly. I suggest all our students add www.grammarbook.com to their internet bookmarks for when that time arises. This is a free online resource to help answer challenging grammar questions. There are many free grammar guides available online, feel free to use them when writing a paper.

It is advisable to purchase a copy of The Turabian Style Manual for writing papers at the Ph.D. or Th.D. program levels. You can also purchase a copy of William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s Elements of Style, (not a requirement, merely a suggestion).

3. Bad habits to avoid:

1. When writing academic papers, do not refer to the author by his first name only. Use his first and last name when you refer to him for the first time in your paper, and then his last name only throughout the rest of the paper.

2. Do not copy directly from the textbook without making it clear you are quoting from the text. This is a very serious issue.

3. Do not share your personal thoughts, experiences or additional insights instead of reviewing the chapter for your report. First show you have read and understood the material, then share your thoughts, experiences and additional insights to what you have read and understood. This can be a struggle for students who are also preaching weekly: The skillful retelling of personal experiences and stories from history, so extremely useful in the pulpit, can actually become a distraction when writing summary papers for seminary.

4. Quoting the author in your paper

I encourage students to consider providing some quotes from the author in each paper. While not essential to paper writing or your grade, it is helpful because authors often best summarize their own thoughts on a given subject, especially near the end of chapters. When you do choose to quote from the author, be sure you are using quotation marks correctly and please provide the page number from which the quote is taken.

Quoting can be accomplished by simply following this format:

Billings, in his book The Deliberate Church, summarizes his feelings on the matter when he reports that “knowing Christ as Lord and Savior should change the way we look at people around us” (p. 25).

5. Show your work in chapter-by-chapter form when appropriate

Some degree programs advise students to review the text in chapter-by-chapter manner. This is a wise way for any student to review any textbook. When doing so, break your paper into reviews of each chapter, using the chapter titles as headings as you go.

Provide quotation marks and page number references when quoting directly from the author. This shows your grader that you are not “skipping over” a chapter as you present your assignment, and that you are not simply copying words out of the textbook to fill up the required length of your report.

6. Clearly distinguish the author’s thoughts from your thoughts and/or thoughts from other sources

When writing academic papers, it is important to distinguish which thoughts belong to the text’s author, which thoughts belong to you, the student, and which thoughts come from other sources. This is easily accomplished by using the style below:

In this chapter, the author states we must always love our local church despite its flaws and imperfections. I agree, but would like to add that times can come when such flaws and imperfections grow so deep that false doctrines about Christ exist. This leaves no recourse other than separation, as seen during the Reformation. This exception is clarified in the pamphlet “Ichabod’s Legacy” by Rev. Bill Jonesboro of Augusta GA, who also preached in April of 2007 that “the only way to help a church where the Spirit is no longer present because of years of false teaching is to leave it.”

7. Provide book, chapter and verse references, and note which Bible translation is quoted

with the wide array of translations and paraphrases in today’s marketplace, it is important to let your grader/professor know which version of the Bible you are using.

This is accomplished early in your paper simply by inserting a line which states, as an example: “All Bible references in this paper come from the King James Version of the Bible, except where clearly noted by the student.”

We suggest our students use translations rather than paraphrases for their primary Bible, and for the purposes of writing papers. Usually, one can discover if their Bible is a translation or paraphrase by looking over its first few pages. Paraphrase versions of the Bible (such as The Message) have their useful place as sources of additional comment, but please use actual translations for your primary Scripture references.

8. Using B.C. and A.D. correctly (and understanding B.C.E. and C.E.)

Always use capital letters when writing B.C. and A.D. The correct way of writing years with B.C. and A.D. is to put A.D. in front of the date and B.C. after it.

Examples:
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius took place in A.D. 79.
The murder of Julius Caesar took place in 44 B.C.

Now that communication between the various cultures of the world is becoming more commonplace, some writers think a dating system based on one particular religious view is no longer appropriate. They have adopted the notations B.C.E. and C.E., which stand for “before common era” and “common era.” However, in seminary we are very comfortable using B.C. and A.D., as these notations honor the history-changing existence of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Some students have shown offense to the notations B.C.E. and C.E. when they encounter them in textbooks. They are not obliged to use them (outside of quoting directly from the text material).

9. Some other helpful best practices: Footers and page numbers

I encourage students using Microsoft Word to use the footer setting to place their name, degree and text title at the bottom of each page, in small (7 pt. is fine) type.

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