INDS 400
IPS INTEGRATION ESSAY INSTRUCTIONS
IPS Integration Essay: Cognate/Career Synthesis Incorporating a Christian Worldview
General Instructions: This final essay will synthesize chosen cognates with a view to career
application and a Christian worldview. The following parameters are to be followed:
Essay Form
1. 5–7 pages
2. Formatting style preferred by your favored cognate department—noted on Cover
Page (APA, Turabian, MLA, etc.)
3. Minimum of 6 sources (may include lecture notes, course readings, etc.)
4. Cover Page: Name, Course/Section, Date, Cognates Listing, Paper Title, Chosen
Formatting Style, Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for INDS 400
Capstone Course
5. Essay form—See the Assignment Instructions folder for a sample IPS Integration
Essay.
6. Introduction
7. Body
8. Summary
9. Conclusion
An integrative device such as an analogy/metaphor must be used within the body of the
essay as a vehicle for clarity. (For example, for an essay from a female with
Business/Communications cognates, the Proverbs 31 woman could be used.)
Conclusions must clarify career aspirations/plans/desires which incorporate chosen
cognates all of which must also be filtered through a Christian worldview.
Please consult our Writing Center for questions/concerns about formatting (see left
margin on website):
http://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?PID=17176
Prepare your Integration Essay as a Microsoft Word document; title the document “INDS
400_section#_Name_IPS Integration Essay” and upload as a file into the submission area
in the Module/Week 6 assignment folder.
Submit your IPS Integration Essay by 11:59 p.m. (ET) on Monday of Module/Week 6.
