Com150 Assignment Body Paragraphs

Com150 Assignment Body Paragraphs

WEEK 6 COM150 ASSIGNMENT BODY PARAGRAPHS due Sun

  1. Assignment: Body Paragraphs

At this point, you are to construct only the body of your expository essay. This first draft of your paper must be complete enough (at least 900 words) for your instructor to provide constructive feedback. Use APA style standards to format in-text citations and references.

Resources: Appendix D and Axia College’s Writing Style Handbook
Read Ch. 1 of the Writing Style Handbook for Axia College’s formatting guidelines.
  * Use your topic outline in Appendix D as a guide to develop topic sentences and appropriate types of supporting paragraphs for the body of your expository essay.
  * Include appropriate transitions within and between paragraphs.
  * Post your paper as an attachment in your Assignment Section by Week 6 Day 7.

DIABETES BASICS

I have changed my expository essay topic to be Diabetes Basics.  

This is a brief overview of the basics of diabetes.   About one out of every seventeen people has diabetes, which is nearly 16 million people in the United States.   Diabetes is when glucose has little or no ability to move out of the blood into the red blood cells.   There are three types of diabetes, Type 1, Type 2, and gestational.   Type 1 diabetes also called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus do not produce insulin and need regular shots of insulin to keep their blood glucose levels normal.   Glucose is another name for sugar.   People aged 20 and younger have Type 1 diabetes.   Type 1 diabetes was once called juvenile onset diabetes, but through the years, it has changed since it also affects young adults.   About 5 to 10 percent account with type 1 diabetes and the majority have type 2 diabetes.   Family history of the disease, the white race and being at an age less than 20 are the risk factors.   Type 1 diabetes is genetic.   Viruses are another cause of type 1 diabetes, which often strikes shortly after a viral infection.   Mumps, German measles,...