EC's Capstone - LA498 - Help/Advice/Info Appreciated

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The Excelsior OWL is a great tool to see how things should be written. You can view about writing discussion boards here (You will want to also view discussion board content, Discussion Board Style & Structure Discussion Boards in Review which you will see on the side bar).

Learning APA is very important, as not only will the papers you write require APA format, but your discussions will also require them. You will have to provide sources for your discussion board replies, and provide references for them. You can see how APA is done here (You will also want to view APA In-Text Citations, APA References, APA Style Demo, APA Checklist, APA Activity, and APA Side by Side on the side bar). The syllabus at Excelsior are generally spot on, I took a bunch a courses with Excelsior and the syllabus that they provide on the registration page is the same syllabus your professor will give you.

I'm No where near a capstone yet!
but you should be able to view the syllabus on the registration page of all the course I also took at EC the syllabus was almost exactly as was on the registration page. There are multiple engines which will generate APA citations google "citefast" which is one I have used in the past. OWL is the writing training section of Excelsior it should be available to you now even when you aren't taking a course, although I thought they renamed it something else I haven't been on OWL in a long time. In the past Eng Comp classes I took they had a facility for you to submit your paper for analysis you should inquire about that service being available since it will give you some comfort that you are on the right track.
You can withdraw up to a certain date usually posted on the syllabus and it goes as W on your transcript, You've gotten this far you can and will finish this race. EC students have dwindled here over the past few years especially since TESC changed some of their policies but keep the information flowing we'll be paying attention !