Option #1: Personal Communication Development Plan – Paper
The Personal Communication Development Plan will be based on the Portfolio Project Checklist, which you will be working on throughout the course. Download this document and work through each part carefully. As you work through Part 1 and Part 2 of this checklist, you may discover something new about your personal communication. You may change your checklist and scoring sheet to reflect your discoveries. Do not start working on your paper until you have completed Part 3 of the checklist.
Review the Portfolio Paper Requirements carefully along with the Portfolio Project Rubric. Once you have completed your paper, be sure to include your completed Project Checklist as part of your final assignment submission. Combine the documents and submit one file. The project should conform to APA. Include at least two scholarly references in addition to the course textbook.
Grammar and punctuation are key! The format for the paper is attached. Please read all parts VERY carefully.
Numerous emails have been sitting in the HR Director’s in-box for two months. Smith is highly agitated that none of his have been responded to. Now that you are hired, he has asked you to address the emails immediately.
Read Email No. 3 concerning a report needed to respond to Smith’s direction that the company have its own retirement plan such as a 401(k) plan, the laws affecting such plans, and what to do about funding it since the company is in a cost-cutting mode.
Complete Smith’s directions and the instructions in the email.
Use headings to appropriately signal the topics and keep your document organized.
Use a minimum of five different in-text citation sources within your paper and identify them in your APA correctly formatted References page.
type 3 full pages about how social media effects you. use at least 2 sources. make sure to talk about your experience with social media. the majority of the essay has to be about your experience.
Write coherently to support a central idea in appropriate APA format with correct grammar, usage, and mechanics.
please include the following clearly labeled sections in your project. This is considered a best practice for a research project.
Introduction: In this section, you should introduce the topic and social group you are examining. This section should be a brief overview of the topic, your approach to the topic, and why this topic is important to consider from a sociological perspective. Demonstrate why your topic is of value for understanding diversity.
Literature Review: In this section, you will review the previous research and current statistical data on your topic. Include a brief overview of the history of your topic or social group in the United States, and refer to key concepts encountered in this course. Address how power, particularly power difference between dominant and minority groups, connects to your topic.
You will present relevant, reliable data that indicate any important characteristics of your chosen social group. Examples might include differences in life expectancy, differences in pay, education levels, or any other data that indicate that your group experiences discrimination at the macro level.
Be sure to use information from the course material and your outside sources to illustrate your points. You should include a minimum of five sources, one of which should include statistical data.
Methods: In this section, discuss the data collection process. Explain in detail how you collected your data (questionnaire, observation, or content analysis), the tool you used to collect this data (questionnaire, or observation or content analysis checklist), the number of subjects in your study, and where and how the data was collected. Include at least one table, chart, or graph that illustrates your findings.
Discussion, Analysis, and Theoretical Application: This portion of your project should interpret your findings. Discuss at least three important findings revealed by your project and explain what these findings tell us from a sociological perspective. In this section, refer to pertinent information from the literature review and use it to interpret your findings or analysis within a sociological perspective. In your analysis, apply at least one sociological theory covered in the course, one that you think best explains the discrimination the group has faced or patterns of dominant-minority relations the group may have encountered.
Policies and Strategies: Based on your research review, data collection, and analysis, share your suggestions regarding policies and strategies to address the issues your project raises. For example, if your project focused on gender stereotypes, explain how that knowledge can be applied to workplace policies geared toward promoting equal advancement opportunities for women. In other words, think about how the knowledge gained can be used in the job sector, education, or our personal interactions to improve relationships between members of diverse social groups or capitalize on the advantages that diversity brings.
Conclusion: This will wrap up your project. Summarize the overall lessons learned and offer any personal comments you wish to include—do this here rather than throughout the body of the paper.
If you do not want to use the data collection process and its easier to use content analysis feel free to.
OPTION 3: Content Analysis
Choose a visual medium (videos, magazines, television commercials, and so on). Keep in mind that you need approximately 15–20 observations, and choose something that is accessible and manageable (for example, watching 15–20 full-length movies or episodes of a television sitcom is too time-consuming, but examining 15–20 print or television advertisements is more feasible).
Each year, public schools are rewarded with bigger budgets for achieving a rating of “excellent” or “recommended” and are punished for rating ” needs improvement”.These ratings are based on meeting thresholds on a broad set of measures such as attendance rates, graduation rates, standardized test scores, SAT scores, and so on. Discuss the incentives for school principals (who are the agents, in this case) under this scheme and how you might improve them.
Numerous emails have been sitting in the HR Director’s in-box for two months. Smith is highly agitated that none of his have been responded to. Now that you are hired, he has asked you to address the emails immediately.
I need help writing 3-4 pages essay comparing 2 narrative. Please find attached both of the narrative. First one is”Homeless on Campus” and the second one os “”Fremont High school”. Also you will find in the attachment a guide that has all the requirement.
Identify a news article that discusses a current event or social issue that relates to your field of study.
Task: Identify a news article that discusses a current event or social issue that relates to your field of study. Follow the instructions below to explain the issue, provide an additional example of the issue, connect the issue to your field of study, and pose questions about the issue.Source: They are attached to the assignment. Choose either one. And answer the questions below.
Formatting your assignment
Incorporate these elements of APA style:
Use one-inch margins.
Double space.
Use an easy-to-read font between 10-point and 12-point.
Note: Title page is not required, but make sure you include your name and a title that reflects your topic at the top of the first page.
Number your answers and/or include the assignment questions so your instructor can see that you addressed each part of the assignment.
Respond to each of the following.
1. Provide an APA-style reference for the news article you selected. The format for the reference is as follows:
Author, A. A. (Year, Month Day). Title of article in sentence case. Title of Newspaper in Title Case and Italics. Retrieved from http://www.newspaperhomepage.com
2. What is the current event or issue that is being discussed in the news article? Explain the event or issue, assuming your reader has little or no prior knowledge of it. Answer in 1-2 paragraphs.
3. Describe a specific real-life situation (other than one discussed in your news article) where the issue at hand has been observed. This could be something that happened to you or someone you know, or it could be a related event in the news. Explain the connection to the event or issue in your news article. Answer in 1-2 paragraphs.
4. What is your field of study and how do you see it relating to the event or issue in your news article? Answer in one paragraph. I don’t have a field of study yet. Associates in General Studies.
5. What do you want to know about the issue or event in your news article? List two or more questions that you could pursue as part of your research.
Developing an idea for a research study is a process, where a topic of interest or social problem gets translated into a research problem that can be explored using accepted systematic procedures for recruiting participants, collecting data, and analyzing and interpreting results.
In this week’s Discussion, you considered what you might want to study. In your first Major Assignment, you will have the first-hand experience of translating that idea into a viable research problem that is a good fit for a qualitative approach. But, before you begin this Assignment, please consider the following concepts:
Ontology is defined as the assumptions one makes about the nature of reality. In qualitative studies, researchers assume that “reality” is constructed from personal experience and context.
Example: If four people see a car accident from different points of view, they will see it differently depending on their position (context) and personal experience.
So consider a topic where the experiences of participants will be one of your primary sources of data, and your “job” as a qualitative researcher is to do your best to understand your sources’ unique experiences.
Epistemology is defined as the assumptions one makes about the relationship between the researcher and the object of study.
Example: If the researcher collects survey data from an accident witness, it is different than if the researcher engages with the witness in person using an open-ended interview format.
So, consider a topic where you will be able to be part of the data gathering experience, and that your “job” as a qualitative researcher is to distinguish your experience from your sources.
A research problem emerges from an understanding of what prior research studies have found, and what, according to that body of literature, needs to be done next.
Thus, before you commit to a topic for this Assignment, it is essential to review published research studies on your topic.
Major Assignment 1 is composed of three parts, as described further in the Overview and Assignment Guidelines document. You will work on one part each week, so that you can submit your Assignment at the end of Week 4. Your Instructor will provide feedback by Week 6. By Week 8, you will revise your Assignment based on the feedback from your Instructor, and you will also submit the revised Assignment.
Write a problem statement based on your topic of study. Develop a 1- to 2-paragraph statement that is the result of a review of the articles you located on your topic.
Briefly summarize the key findings or what is understood about this phenomena based on the three articles you reviewed.
Briefly identify the “gap”—what do you see as an important, relevant, next step in learning more about this topic that would be appropriate for a qualitative study.
Include your Annotated Bibliography section.
No Assignment submission for this week.
For this week’s Assignment:
Review the expectations of the Major Assignment 1: Developing a Research Topic for a Qualitative Study Overview and Guidelines. (Note: Make sure you review it in its entirety before you begin.)
Part 2
Write a purpose statement using terminology of qualitative research. The purpose statement should contain:
Based on your knowledge of reflexivity, explain your relationship to the problem; and the issues of bias and positionality to be addressed. Include a brief description of the setting and possible sources of data.
Write a research question using terminology of qualitative research. (Note: This could be the same research question you created in your Discussion 1 for this week ONLY if it applies to your topic of study for this Assignment.)
Guest, G., Bunce, A., & Johnson, L. (2006). How many interviews are enough? An experiment with data saturation and variability. Field Methods, 18(1), 59–82.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Topper, C. (2014). Christin Topper, PhD student, bringing the natural world to Hong Kong [Video file]. Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 minutes.
In this media program, Christin Topper discusses how she’s taking on “nature deficit disorder” in one of the world’s biggest cities. As you observe, take notes using the Video Field Notes Guide.
When working with families and groups the priority is for the social worker to understand the process that is taking place. In both situations there is the overt (clearly stated) dynamics and the covert (hidden) dynamics. The content (what is being said) in both settings is what is open and stated. The process (how it is being said) is the unspoken information; what is underneath the interaction is what the social worker needs to explore in both groups and family systems.
For this Discussion, watch the video segments of a group and a family session provided in required resources.
Postthe following:
Describe the group dynamic (communication, cohesion, social integration, influence) of the group shown in the required media.
From either “The Fairy Tale Web: Intertextual & Multimedial Practices...” (468) or “Peasants Tell Tales…” (363) discuss a concept brought up in either essay as it relates to how we interpret fairy tales. Consider context & our own biases. What should we keep in mind as we interpret a story?
im international student , please be simple (don’t use hard vocabularies. use simple vocabs)
Submit a paper that is well constructed using APA format. The paper should be a minimum of one typewritten page (approximately 300 to 400 words) with an introduction and conclusion. This paper shall demonstrate use of standard written English with respect to: organization, grammar, spelling, composition, sentence structure, punctuation, and construction
This week we studied a variety of entry modes, but I’d like you to post your response to the following statements and respond to a class colleague.
Countertrade includes a range of barterlike agreements and may be considered a form of payment. Please identify a country of the world where a countertrade agreement may exist and explain why. Be quick though… you may not use a country that another classmate has used in their posting!
This week we analyzed and evaluated an array of topics in the area of production and logistics for the international firm. We identified and discussed countertrade, export financing, and reviewed some of the documents used to facilitate those processes.
An external link allowed you to review some of the most common documents used in export financing. Now, think about this question and post your response.
Receipt for services by the firm providing carriage (e.g. steamship line, airline)
Establishes a document of title (document of title in this instance is defined as the temporary ownership of the goods needed to allow entry into the country that the goods will be sold in)
Do you think the mass media significantly contributes to the socialization process?
Do you think the mass media significantly contributes to the socialization process? When answering this question be sure to identify and describe the major agents of socialization in U.S. society today. Has the media changed social interaction? Does the media have more influence over socialization than the other agents of social control? Why or why not?
