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Footnote and Bibliography Format Paper Assignment Instructions

Overview

This assignment is designed to introduce you to the Liberty online library as well as the process of locating, integrating, and citing academic sources in proper footnote and bibliographic formats. This assignment will also prepare you for the Comparing and Contrasting Models Paper Assignment, which is a research-based comparative analysis of the attractional and missional church models. These models are introduced in this weeks reading, but you are being tasked with locating supplemental sources that also speak to these models because this is necessary for academic research at the doctoral level.

Instructions

For this assignment, you will provide 17 unique resources in proper Turabian footnote and bibliographic form, along with a quote from each source. (Note: Do not use the date-first Turabian style but utilize the style with the publication year near the end of the reference.)

For the paper itself,

Provide a properly formatted cover page and contents page.

Provide an introductory paragraph that introduces the existence of the attractional and missional church models and presents a thesis statement. In this paragraph, the student should also explain the mission of the church and how different church models have evolved over time. The student should specifically mention the attraction and missional models while providing a clear thesis statement that an analysis will be provided regarding which model contains the most biblical objectives. (Note: you did this for the School of Divinity Formatting Standards Paper Assignment. Take that introduction and edit it based on the comments and feedback you received. Also, note that this introduction will not mention the sources or the rest of the paper for this week, but is refining the basis of the introduction you will use for your Comparing and Contrasting Models Paper Assignment.)

Provide a bold heading for each of the 17 sources utilized for a paper.

Under each heading, include a quote from the selected source, and then provide a footnote citing that source in precise Turabian formatting style.

Provide a bibliography with each of the 17 sources cited in precise Turabian formatting style in alphabetical order by last name.

Here are the 17 source types that must be included in the paper:

2 Dissertations or Theses interacting with the Attractional Church. (Utilizing the dissertation database through the Jerry Falwell Library will help.)

2 Dissertations or Theses interacting with the Missional Church.

5 Academic Journal Articles interacting with the issues related to missional or attractional church approaches.

5 Books interacting with the issues related to missional or attractional church approaches.

A scholarly Commentary on Acts, Ephesians, and 1 Timothy. Thus, you will have three separate commentaries here. One for each of those books. The commentary selected can cover multiple books of the Bible, but one of these books must be present in the title for each citation. Do not cite a commentary that covers the entire Bible in one or two volumes. A scholarly commentary will extensively address a particular passage and extensively cite other sources. A scholarly commentary is different than a devotional commentary or one that reduplicates the author’s sermons.

All formatting must follow current Turabian style standards precisely. Be sure to utilize the Turabian Chart of Citations provided in the assignment link as well as other resources available through the Online Writing Center (linked in the Footnote and Bibliography Format Paper Resources section).

The assignment will be strictly graded based on the quality of the sources selected, the accuracy of the formatting provided, and the quality of the introduction and the thesis.

Note: Your assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.