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The word argument usually conjures up images of agitated people disagreeing with each other, often emotionally. In academic writing, the argument or persuasive essay is not about confrontation. Instead, this essay relies on detailed evidence, cool logic, and precise language to persuade readers to accept a viewpoint or to take an action. This ability to make a reasonable, persuasive case for your point of view can be one of the most important skills for your advancement in the workplace.

For this Individual Project, you should either choose one of the topics below or devise one of your own (with your instructor’s approval) and write a short argument or persuasive essay. As you discovered in your reading, you will assert a position on the topic and then defend that position so well that others might agree with you. Remember, the argument or persuasive essay is not a personal rant. Your goal is to appear unbiased.

One of the ways of achieving a level of objectivity is to consider counterarguments against your position. Therefore, at least one of your paragraphs should include some discussion of a counterargument. For example, if you write in favor of abolishing the death penalty, you might devote some discussion to the loved ones of a murder victim, the need for these survivors to gain closure, or even their demands that the perpetrator meet a similar fate as the loved one taken from them.

You are welcome to rely on the five-paragraph essay structure of English 106. Click here for a sample outline for an argument or persuasive essay.

Topics

Click here for the suggested topics list for the argument or persuasive outline.

Note: You may choose one of the topics provided. If you wish to devise your own topic, please seek your instructor’s approval of the topic before you begin writing.

 As you choose your topic, keep in mind that your goal in English 107 is to create, week-by-week, a college-level research paper. You will submit a final draft of this paper at the end of Week 5. Although you will be allowed to change topics if needed, you should choose a topic this week that you will be comfortable researching and writing about throughout the course. Regardless of the topic that you choose, be sure to complete the following:

  • Format your essay in APA manuscript style. Watch this video for step-by-step instructions: APA style at AIU.
  • Include an introduction paragraph (place your thesis statement at or near the end of this paragraph).
  • Develop at least 3 main points in 3 body paragraphs, and include at least 1 counterargument.
  • End the essay with a wrap-up or conclusion paragraph.

Checklist

Format the pages of your project in APA manuscript style in the following order:

  • Title page
  • Abstract
  • Essay

Note: Do not research this essay or include any citations.

Click here if you need to watch a tutorial on submitting Individual Project files.

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Repurposed Submissions

If you are planning to submit a repurposed or reused assignment, please let your instructor know. If an instructor is not made aware of work being repurposed or reused, an instructor will treat the assignment as a plagiarized task and may post an F grade until proof of originality is provided. Click here for more information.

Grading Rubric: 

Content & Organization

Demonstrates understanding of rhetorical mode and uses it to deliver appropriate, detailed and pertinent content structured in a logical pattern. Uses transitional devices to achieve coherence throughout the essay’s three parts: introduction, body and conclusion.

35%

Critical Thinking

Demonstrates critical analysis of chosen essay topic with the use of relevant, insightful and logical sub-points that form an integrated essay argument in support of a central thesis.

35%

Presentation

Demonstrates effective college-level syntax and word choice; correct grammar and mechanics. Manuscript is formatted in APA style according to guidelines in the Sixth Edition.

30%

References

American InterContinental University. (2012, April 18). APA style at AIU [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mxiu9LRUUmY

 

 

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Developing a Performance Appraisal System

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All organizations utilize some sort of system that periodically reviews the performance of every staff member. As the director of human resources, you are responsible for developing such a system.

 

Write a 750- to 1,050-word paper in APA format that details an original performance appraisal system for a human service organization. Address the following:

  • Determinethe elements that should be present in an appraisal system.
  • What is the purpose of a performance appraisal system and how does it benefit the organization?
  • Outlinethe elements of good appraisal systems.
  • Determine the criteria for each element that should be present in an appraisal system.

Assignment 1. Finding information about a stock Objective: Learn how to find information about stock prices online. Assignment: You are given a company on your…

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Assignment 1.
Finding information about a stock
Objective:
Learn how to find information about stock prices online.
Assignment:
You are given a company on your assignments sheet
(Western Union).
Go to a popular website for financial
information (such as 
money.cnn.com or 
finance.yahoo.com or 
bloomberg.com) and find the
information requested below.
Report:
Your report may be written as a list, but be sure to use complete sentences. You should include
the following information
1. Your Assignment ID number (this is on the top of your individual assignments sheet)
(20)
2. Your company’s name and ticker symbol.
3. The quoted price along with the day and time of quote
4. The previous day’s closing price and the percent change.
5. The percent change year-to-date and the closing value at the start of the year.
6. The market capitalization of the company.
7. How would you describe the behavior of the stock price over the last two years?
 
WARNING: A goal of this class is to practice getting financial information online by having
you go to real websites. However, many of the websites you visit will offer advertisements for
financial projects and many of these advertisements are basically scams. Nothing in this class is
meant to be an endorsement of any company or any offer. Throughout your investing life you
will be exposed to many kinds of financial offers and you need to do your research and be
suspicious about anything you read.
 
 
Assignment 2.
Finding information about interest rates
Objective:
Learn how to find information about interest rates online.
Assignment:
Go to 
money.cnn.com or another financial website and find current market yields.
Report:
Your report may be written as a list, but be sure to use complete sentences. You should include
the following information
1. Your Assignment ID.
(20)
2. The day you collected the information.
3. Find two money market yields; for example, the Fed Funds rate and the 3-month T-bill rate
4. Compare the 5-year Treasury Note rate with the 5-year TIPS rate. What does this suggest the
people are expecting for inflation over the next five years?
5. Compare the 10-year Treasury Bond rate with the Investment Grade Corporate rate. What is
the risk premium?

Final Essay

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For your final essay, you should choose one of the following options.
•Compare and contrast the poems and/or poets within this week’s reading. You may compare poems by the same poet, or poems across more than one poet. Have a debatable, persuasive claim and focus on specific points of comparison, using the Lesson in week 7 to guide your structure. Please consult the MLA handbook if you are in doubt about citation form.
•View the list of American Essayists (below). Select an essayist who wrote after the Civil War (note, the list includes some pre-Civil War essayists. Do not select a pre-Civil War essayist). Search the internet for an essay by your selected author and read it. Compose a thesis that has a persuasive, debatable claim about the significance of the message or theme in the essay or the success/effectiveness of the essay as a whole. Summarize the essay in your intro paragraph, end the paragraph with your thesis, and be sure to include your three points of evidence in your thesis statement. Cite the essay as you would any article on the internet as you examine your points of evidence.
•Compare and contrast John Grisham’s piece to any essay, long-form article on a website like The Atlantic or other news sources,  or film/documentary that explores a contemporary social issue that matters to you. Have a debatable, persuasive claim and focus on specific points of comparison, using the Lesson in week 7 to guide your structure.

Submission Instructions:

Your essays should be in MLA Style and approximately 1625-1950 words, not including the Work(s) Cited page. Meeting the minimum word requirement makes you eligible for a C grade. Meeting the maximum word requirements makes you eligible for an A grade. As with most academic writing, this essay should be written in third person. Please avoid both first person (I, we, our, etc.) and second person (you, your).

In the upper left-hand corner of the paper, place your name, the professor’s name, the course name, and the due date for the assignment on consecutive lines. Double space your information from your name onward, and don’t forget a title. All papers should be in Times New Roman font with 12-point type with one-inch margins all the way around your paper. All paragraph indentations should be indented five spaces (use the tab key) from the left margin. All work is to be left justified. When quoting lines in literature, please research the proper way to cite short stories, plays, or poems.

Should you choose to use outside references for prompt one or two, these must be scholarly, peer-reviewed sources obtained via the APUS library (select Advanced Search and check the Peer Reviewed box). Reliable open web sources may be used for prompt three. Be careful that you don’t create a “cut and paste” paper of information from your various sources. Your ideas are to be new and freshly constructed. Also, take great care not to plagiarize.

Supporting Materials
Literature 200 Level Rubric (38 KB)

Some Major American Essayists

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)
St. John de Crevecœur (1725–1813)
Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
James Madison (1751–1836)
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
Frederick Douglass (1817?–1895)
Herman Melville (1819–1891
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
Mark Twain (1835–1910)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)
H. L. Menken (1880–1956)
E. B. White (1899–  )
Ralph Ellison (1913–1994)
Louis Auchincloss (1917–  )
Betty Friedan (1921–  )
James Baldwin (1924–1987)
William F. Buckley Jr. (1925–  )
Gore Vidal (1925–  )
Edward Abbey (1927–1989)
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968)
John McPhee (1931–  )
Joan Didion (1934–  )
Garry Wills (1934–  )
Jonathan Kozol (1936–  )
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–  )
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002)
George F. Will (1941–  )
Garrison Keillor (1942–  )
Annie Dillard (1945–  )
Dave Barry (1947–  )
Katha Pollitt (1949–  )
Bill Bryson (1951–  )
Brent Staples  (1951–  )
Deborah Tannen (1951–  )
Anna Quindlen (1952–  )
Cornel West (1953–  )
David Sedaris (1956–  )
Malcolm Gladwell (1963–  )

This week’s readings:

Read: John Grisham: Somewhere for Everyone (in our text).

Read: Sharon Olds, “First Thanksgiving” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53387

Read: Sharon Olds, “Still Life in Landscape” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53386

Read: Sharon Olds, “After Making Love in Winter” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36723

Read: Sharon Olds, “The Planned Child” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36230

Read: Linda Pastan, “A Rainy Country” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42085

Read: Linda Pastan, “I Am Learning to Abandon the World” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/34957

Read: Linda Pastan, “The Obligation to Be Happy” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/39788

Read: Linda Pastan, “Why Are Your Poems So Dark?” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/41918

Read: Larry Levis, “SIgns” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47941

Read: Larry Levis, “To a Wren on Calvary” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/47946

Read: Larry Levis, “Winter Stars” at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/53388

globalization argumentative paper

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argumentative paper of no more than 750 words that demonstrates why globalization is good or not good for a business. The paper should define the term good, and should identify the premises and conclusions.

 

Identify the premise and conclusion by placing a number in bold at the beginning of the sentence with the word premise or conclusion. For example: (1, Premise), (2, Premise), (1, Conclusion), (2, Conclusion), and so on.

 

Sentences labeled as “1, premise” are premises for the sentence labeled as “1, conclusion.”All premises should be labeled for each conclusion in the article. If a sentence is a conclusion and a premise for another conclusion, place two labels.At the end of the paper, identify one example of how you used deductive reasoning and one example of how you used inductive reasoning.

 

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

 

Ethanol

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In 2-3 pages, using APA-style formatting, discuss ethanol as a transportation fuel. Identify at least three advantages and three disadvantages of its use. Also, assess the government’s policy regarding ethanol and make a recommendation as to whether you feel use of ethanol is a feasible approach to decreasing the amount of oil used to power vehicles.

Looking for the solution to the Individual tax return problem 4 in “Taxation of Individuals” Appendix C.

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Looking for the solution to the Individual tax return problem 4 in “Taxation of Individuals” Appendix C.

Internal and external stalkholders

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Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you address the following:

  1. Identify the Internal and External Stakeholders.
  2. Discuss how internal or external stakeholders have influenced the situation in a positive or negative way?
  3. How will you consider stakeholders in your solution to the problem?
  4. How will you motivate individuals to buy into your solution?
  5. Use at least three (3) quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

  • Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
  • Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Consider personnel and stakeholders and how they influence decision making.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in criminal justice.
  • Write clearly and concisely about criminal justice using proper writing mechanics.

Cooperative Constructs (Finance)

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I need the answer to the above case study. 

Workplace ethics- Business Ethics

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Assignment 2: Workplace Ethics
Due Week 8 and worth 275 points

 

Overview
This assignment will give you the opportunity to choose a case study, and then write about the ethical implications and the impact of the events that are described. Each case study includes a set of questions that you should answer. You can choose either Case Study 9.1: Unprofessional Conduct, or Case Study 8.4: Have Gun Will Travel. 

 

You will be graded on the following criteria:

 

Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

 

  1. Analyze the questions associated with your chosen case study and discuss them using concepts you learned in this course.
  2. Explain your rationale for each of your answers to your chosen case study.
  3. Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
    1. Typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
    2. Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
    3. Cite your textbook as a reference.
    4. Include a reference page. Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.

 

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

 

  • Determine the considerations for and process of ethical business decision making to balance corporate and social responsibilities and address moral, economic, and legal concerns.
  • Analyze selected business situations using the predominant ethical theories, such as utilitarian, Kantian, and virtue ethics to guide ethical business decision making.
  • Determine the implications and impact of various civil liberty laws in the workplace, such as hiring, promotion, discipline, discharge, and wage discrimination.
  • Use technology and information resources to research issues in business ethics.
  • Write clearly and concisely about business ethics using proper writing mechanics.

 

Click here to view the grading rubric.

 

Choose one (1) of the following case studies for Assignment 2:

 

Case 9.1: Unprofessional Conduct?
Located on page 342 of your textbook

 

  1. Do you believe the Board of Education violated her right to privacy? Were they justified in firing her? Explain two to three (2-3) major reasons why or why not.
  2. Was Pettit’s behavior unprofessional or immoral? Do you believe she was unfit to teach? Provide a rationale for your position.
  3. If teachers have good performance inside the classroom, should they also be held to a higher moral standard outside the classroom? Explain why or why not. 
  4. Analyze five (5) behaviors you believe would show unprofessional or immoral conduct for a teacher.

 

Case 8.4: Have Gun, Will Travel…to Work
Located on page 312 of your textbook

 

  1. Do you have not only a legal, but a moral right to own a gun? Do you believe that you have either a moral or a legal right to park a car with a loaded gun in a privately owned parking lot, regardless of what the lot’s owner wants?
  2. In your view, do employees have either a moral or a legal right to park cars with guns in them in the company parking lot? What do you believe should be the property rights and safety concerns of employers?
  3. Do you think state legislatures are right to get involved, or should the matter be left to companies and employees to settle? 
  4. Because the workplace is the company’s private property, the company could choose to allow employees to bring guns not only into the parking lot, but also into the workplace itself. Are there ever circumstances in which doing so might be reasonable? Or would the presence of guns automatically violate the rights of other employees to be guaranteed a safe working environment?