1) Select either Topic A or Topic B for your persuasive speech. o Topic A: Should Children Under the Age of 10 Own Cell Phones? Deliver a speech on question of value.
o Topic B: Should Self-Driving Cars Be Legal? Deliver a speech on question of policy.
2) Create an outline or speaking notes in Microsoft Word. o Download the Microsoft Word template in the “Assignment 3.1†section located in Week 6 of your course.
o Develop a specific purpose, central idea, and several main points so you’ll stay within the 4-minute time limit.
Action Memo #3 In 9-3 Action Memo #, write and submit an Action Memo recommending support or opposition for planning and taking steps to build a continental renewable grid for North America for one of the following:  From staff of the Safe Energy environmental group to Executive Director of the organization.  From staff of regional large distribution utility to the CEO of the utility. The memo should account for triple bottom line issues, the economic, the ecological, and the social. Use the following reference materials and course resources as a starting point:  The Economics of Renewable Energy: Evidence by Derek Birkett (2008) pages 231–233.  Wind Holds Key to European Supergrid by James Murray (2009)  Building a Continental Renewable Supergrid by Roy Morrison Requirements of submission: Short paper assignments must follow these formatting guidelines: double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, and discipline-appropriate citations. Page length requirements: 1-2 pages, not including cover page and references. Be sure to cite all your sources using MLA format with footnotes and endnotes.
Someone has asked you for something, and you must refuse—a very common business situation. Such messages are almost always negative, although they vary in degree of negativity. Usually in such messages you have two goals:
to refuse, and
to maintain goodwill.
Before you write anything, you should think through the situation and work out a strategy—that is, how you will explain or justify your decision.
RELEVANT CONCEPTS:
Determining the effectiveness and/or weaknesses of a message.
Planning Your Communication Strategy Using a Problem-Solving Approach (Chapter 1)
Revising for effective, positive communication
ASSIGNMENT INSTRUCTIONS:
Step 1: Open a new Microsoft Word document and immediately save the file as follows: Lastname-Firstname-Ch6-Bad News Message-Refused Request (For example: Carcioppolo-Joann-Ch6-Bad News Message-Refused Request )
Step 2: List the weaknesses in this ineffective indirect-order bad news message below, based on the following:
general plan for indirect-order messages (LO 6-2),
the suggestions for developing the strategy using the indirect-order for refused request messages (LO 6-3);
the appropriate format and letter parts from Chapter 2 and Bonus Chapter A; and,
the appropriate writing style suggestions from Chapter 4 (LO 4-1 through LO 4-16).
Cite your reasons based on the appropriate chapter and learning objective.
Step 3: Plan your communication strategy using the Problem-Solving Approach and Audience Analysis Checklist handouts from Chapters 1 and 2. Please include these documents with your assessment submission.
Step 4: REVISE the message to meet the indirect-order message plan for a Refused Request(appropriate document format/open/body/close) and appropriate writing style.
INEFFECTIVE MESSAGE
Mr. Skinner:
Your May 12 claim of defective workmanship in your Model 227 Dandy Klipper riding mower has been reviewed. After considering the information received, I regret to report that we cannot refund the purchase price.
You have had the mower for 15 months, which is well beyond our one-year guarantee. Even though your repair person says that you had problems earlier, he is not one of our authorized repair people. If you will read the warranty you refer to in your letter, you will see that we honor the warranty only when our authorized repair people find defects. I think you will understand why we must follow this procedure.
If you will take the machine to the authorized service center in your area (La Rue Lawn and Garden Center), I am confident they can correct the defect at a reasonable charge.
If I can be of additional service, please contact me.
Sincerely,
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Prompt (you can also choose a prompt from a specific college you will be applying to; clear this prompt with your TA). If not, write on the prompt below:
Over the course of college, you have probably experienced shifts in your own personal views/perception of the world around you. In a well-organized 500-700 word essay, write about how you personally believe you have developed over the course of college. In your paper, focus on a specific event that defined you as a person.
Think of a Memorable Event
A personal narrative can focus on any event during college, whether it is one that lasted a few seconds or it spanned a few years.
Your topic can reflect your personality, or it can reveal an event that shaped your outlooks and opinions. But your story should have a clear point.
you could write about a learning experience that challenged and changed you
you could describe a new discovery that came about in an interesting way
you could write about a lesson you learned the hard way
For your initial or final draft, you have the option to turn the personal narrative into a personal statement for Law School or Medical School, etc. This is not required, but you could tailor the assignment to something that might be helpful for graduate school.
I uploaded my personal statement for applying college. This paper is more about things happened before hight school.
I need you to simply keep the story but let it happen in college.
Begin at LA time 05/15/2019 7:00am-8:40am, about 6-8 short answer question about finance and stock. You need to know all the material that I posted.
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You will be required to develop a persuasive presentation on the controversial political or social issue you wrote about in your Expository Essay 2. You must discuss this issue from the perspective of Bronfenbrenner’s theory. The 5 key systems are microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem. Each of the key system has own roles in shaping and developing the individual and his/her views about a particular social issue.
You must research arguments on both sides of the social issue you chose to analyze and you must persuasively argue one side. While doing so, employ Bronfenbrenner’s theory to support your argument to support your stance on the issue. As you argue, please incorporate relevant statistics, research and other data to support your arguments.
6 slides with maximum 6 sentences.
You are to hand in three documents: powerpoint presentation, formal outline, and speaking outline.
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The process of regionalization and the creation of regional blocs are controversial
development. Do regionalization and regional blocs contribute to the process of
globalization or are the origins and purposes of these regional developments too varied
and distinct to be classified as parallel to the process of globalization? Make reference to
specific processes of regionalization and regional blocs in addressing the question.
1500 words, minimum 2 references
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In this assignment, you will carry out secondary research. Ideally, you will complete this research part of the assignment at the end of Topic 3 in Module 2.
Assignment Component
Marks*
% of Final Grade
Introduction
10
Method
10
Findings
10
Analysis
25
Implications and conclusion
45
Total
100
10
*To obtain full marks for each component, your work must satisfy the grading criteria at the end of the Assignment 2 instructions.
Introduction
This assignment is your opportunity to begin researching your research problem. You will start with secondary research because it is typically the cheapest and easiest way to learn about your product and the marketing research problem. This will also help you to refine your research problem and gain insights in choosing elements in the research process.
Note
Review the materials from topics 1 to 3 in Module 2, the work you did in Activities 1 to 5 of Module 2, and your completed assignment plan and feedback from your Open Learning Faculty Member. If you have not received approval for your research proposal back with comments from your Open Learning Faculty Member, do not proceed with Assignment 2 yet, as you may be missing crucial feedback.
Instructions
In a report of approximately 1,500–1,750 words, describe what you have done in finding secondary research data in solving your research problem. Lay out your information logically.
Research reports usually include the following headings:
The introduction: Here, you briefly connect the why, what, and how of the study on which you based Assignment 1. State what you are trying to deliver (to show the reader) based on the data (your findings).
The methods: This is where you show the reader how and where your data is obtained. What are your criteria in choosing the data?
The findings: After clearly stating how the data is obtained, you present your data (your findings). Focus on the information that is relevant to your research problem even after a search that included twenty or more sources. You should find at least eight to ten relevant and creditable sources of information to reference in your assignment. Include only your most relevant sources and every source that you choose should have a purpose.You may choose to include information about the following:
The analysis: After you’ve shown your findings, logically argue why those findings could help understanding the research problem. What are your assumptions and interpretations to the findings? Why they are important for you to understand your research problem? How you include this section depends on your writing style—you can combine this section with the findings section, and use the heading Findings and Analysis. Your report should go beyond a simple summary of observations and facts. You must debate or argue why the data is useful. Listing the sources without good justification will only earn you 10 marks (see the above table above).
Implications and conclusion: This final section illustrates the research implications for your marketing problem and your research design. Be very clear about how your research has enabled you to improve the following:
Your description of the marketing research problem: Use the information you have gathered to either confirm or modify the marketing research problem that you made in your initial research proposal. Did the new data provide new thoughts on your research problem?
Your research design: Have you learned something that will enable you to be more specific with your research questions, your hypotheses, your choice of participants and respondents, and so on? Did the data help you to write some of your questions for your focus group?
Your answer to the problem: Your research may uncover information directly relevant to your marketing research problem. If it does, how you are going to refine your research problem differently (i.e., to research something that is not yet known) If it does not, then reaffirm the importance of your current research problem and state how you are going to dig into the issues further in your next assignment (focus group research).
Presentation Standards: Guidelines for Writing
Paragraphs are unified, developed, and coherent, with transitions between ideas.
Sentences are grammatically correct; words are chosen for accuracy and impact.
Writing follows the conventions of spelling and mechanics (punctuation, etc.).
Documentation follows APA style accurately and consistently.
Assignment is submitted in double-line spacing and uses 12-point Times New Roman font.
I’ve provided 2 discussions below that need to be responded separately. This week’s discussion is about APA concepts.
1-)APA Formatting
Hello Everyone,
Below are the few points for APA formatting which I have learned from the given video for the assignment.
Summary vs Paraphrase
In paraphrasing, someone else’s shared information, ideas and thoughts used in our own words to write research paper. It is not accepted if in paraphrasing, given information used by replacing words with synonyms. It is required to rewrite whole information as per own understanding in own way. If it doesn’t happen then it is considered as plagiarism. (Scott, 2016).
In Summary, referred study material content used in summarize way where whole information is shared in the short format. In both the cases, credit to original source need to be given by providing references and intext-citation. (Scott, 2016).
Quotations:
In research paper, someone else’s information used as it is then those content needs to put in double quotes and need to provide intext citation by providing author name and year of publication. If this is not used, then it is considered as plagiarism. (Scott, 2016).
In-text citation:
Whenever any information used from the source then that information needs to be cited using intext citation. There are two ways of doing it, one is by providing names of the authors in the information sentence followed by date of publication in braces. Second way is to provide author name along with date of publication at the end of the sentence. (Scott, 2016).
2-)APA concepts
American Psychological Association is the abbreviation of APA which is very important for students who are writing research papers. It is very famous style of writing research papers, journals, books, literatures etc. After going through the video by Scott, I want to explain about three concepts from that video namely paraphrasing, Quotation and In-text citations.
Paraphrase:
Paraphrasing means nothing but writing someone else’s ideas or thoughts into your own words (Scott, 2016). While paraphrasing we should not replace words with synonyms (Scott, 2016). If we do that then it is a plagiarism. We should take time to convert the author’s ideas into our own words to avoid plagiarism. An example for paraphrasing is given as follows. Studying in another country can be rewarding, but it can also be a source of considerable stress. Researchers have noted that most international students seem to struggle above all with linguistic problems (Sumer, Poyrazli, & Grahame, 2008, p.431).
Quotation:
If you taken a sentence from the source which you referred and copied it word-to-word in your document (Scott, 2016). Then you have put that sentence in quotations to avoid plagiarism. If you didn’t provide quotations for that copied sentence, then it is a plagiarism. It is usually best to try paraphrasing first, but if paraphrasing reduces the effectiveness of the idea, then is better to quote. After providing quotation then include citation with the authors last name, the year of publication, and the page number on which the sentence can be found (Borwin, 2008). If the original source doe not have page number, then use the paragraph number. An example for quotation is given as follows. “Teenagers become increasingly Susceptible to peer pressure as they grow older starting at age12†(Belkin et al.,2007, p.237). quotations and parentheses must be given if copied a sentence from a source which is very important.
Signal phrases:
when you write a sentence in research paper using quotation or paraphrase then you can use signal phrase or verb to introduce it (Scott, 2016). Use the verb that mostly closely captures how your source is presenting the idea. Is the author you are quoting merely saying something? Or would it be more accurate to write that the source is arguing a point, making an observation, reporting facts, drawing a conclusion, refuting an argument, or stating a belief? Choose the verb that makes the author’s stance clear (Borwin, 2008). There are many signal words like explains, comments, describes, maintains, reports, adds, compares, illustrates, states, responds, summarizes, considers, argues etc. an example for signal phrase is mentioned as follows. According to Sumer and Poyrazli (2008),†Language difficulties, in particular, appear to be a challenge for the majority of international students†(p.431). you can also write this sentence as follows. Sumer and Poyrazli (2008) argue that “Language difficulties, in particular, appear to be a challenge for the majority of international students†(p.431). Thus, the importance of signal phrase, paraphrase and quotation.
