Writing Assignment #2

Background Review and     

Synthesis of Literature   

Summary of assignment         

• Task: You will complete the following:
  • Select a topic for writing assignment #4 o Research that topic in OneSearch
  • Locate at least seven articles from scholarly or credible trade journals on the topic o Write a synthesis of the articles.

• Length: 1000-1400 words.

• Format: APA

• Sources: At least seven sources from scholarly or credible trade journals

• Writing Process: You will submit a first draft of the essay to the assignment folder. The first draft will not be graded.  The instructor will provide comments to it.   After receiving comments from the instructor, you will submit a revised draft.  The final draft will be graded.

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How This Assignment Informs Future Assignments in WRTG 394

This assignment is designed to help you prepare for the final paper in WRTG 394. Keep in mind that your final paper in WRTG 394 will be a report in which you define a problem in your workplace or community persuasively and accurately and propose a solution or solutions to the problem or issue.

For writing assignment #2, consider the problem you will address and conduct research in the library on the topic.

For example, let us assume that you are considering writing a report to the Dean of The School of Arts and Sciences at UMGC to recommend that UMGC move from LEO as its learning management system (LMS) to a different learning management system.  In preparing to write this type of report, you might complete the following for writing assignment #2:  Conduct library research on the topics of learning management systems for schools, online teaching, and effective teaching in an online environment.

What do We Mean by Synthesis?

In a background review and synthesis of the literature, you don’t take a stand on an issue.  You review what the articles say on the issue, dividing the arguments in the articles into themes.

For example, let us assume that you conduct library research on the topic of learning management systems for schools, online teaching, and effective teaching in an online environment.  You might find that three major themes emerge from your perusing of the seven articles:

• common reasons for resisting the move to a new LMS
• impact on faculty members when transitioning to a new LMS
• impact on students when transitioning to new LMS

Selection of Topics

Examples of Topics for Writing Assignment #4, the Research-Based Report

A student could write a report on a number of topics.  The following are some examples.  Please note that these are examples of topics.  You are not required to choose any of them.  They are provided here to help illustrate this assignment.

• a report to your supervisor at work suggesting that email be used less frequently for communication and that another application be used to improve communication
• a report to your city council suggesting a new smart traffic light system for parts of the city
• a report to the program chair of your major at UMGC to suggest changes to one or more of the classes required in the major
• a report to the manager of your unit at work noting that recycling facilities in the workplace should be improved

Examples of Topics for Writing Assignment #2, the Background Review and Synthesis, Based on the Suggested Topics Above

In any report of this nature, some background research is necessary.  For example, consider the following strategies when collecting background research for the topics mentioned above:

• For a report to your supervisor at work suggesting that email be used less frequently for communication and that another application be used to improve communication, some scholarly literature or articles from credible trade journals on transitioning to alternative electronic communication would be beneficial. In addition, articles that demonstrate the problems with email communication would add to the argument.
• For a report to your city council proposing a new smart traffic light system, some trade journal or scholarly literature on such systems would augment the report considerably.
• For a report to the program chair of your major at UMGC, some scholarly or trade journal articles on the skills that a graduate of that major needs in the workplace would be very effective. This information would greatly enhance the credibility of a report that suggests changes to the curriculum.
• For a report to the manager of your unit at work arguing that recycling facilities in the workplace should be improved, some scholarly articles or studies on the challenges of and benefits to implementing recycling facilities in organizations would be persuasive. Of course, there are varieties of recycling programs.  The articles you find would help define what type of recycling program you would propose.

Length of Your Paper

As noted above, your background review of the literature on your topic should be 1000-1400 words in length.

The sources should be cited throughout the paper in APA format and listed in a References page at the end of the paper in APA format.

You will find that your synthesis will be a helpful component of your final research-based report.  In fact, if your synthesis is well written, you might be able to take parts of it and copy them into sections of the final report.  The skills and strategies you gain from writing the background review and synthesis of literature will be very valuable in writing your final research-based report.

Guides to Help You in Writing this Assignment:

Please read the sample paper in our class from Tom Student.

In addition, the following links provide access to guides on writing a research-based business report.  While the guides provide instruction on writing a research-based business report, for the purposes of writing assignment #2, you might focus on how each guide instructs you on the use of sources and secondary research for the report.

• Victoria University of Wellington
• Queen Margaret University
• Murdoch University
• Colorado State University

Additional Topics that Previous Students Have Used

Some possible workplace research topics are the following. These are examples to help you get started. Please contact your instructor to have other topic ideas approved. 

• Making a change in the computer infrastructure at your workplace
• Establishing a drug policy
• Establishing an employee leave donation program
• Establishing an equipment donation program for used computers, etc.
• Establishing a company recycling program (paper, etc.)
• Education/retraining for your employees
• Recommending the purchase of standing desks for employees
• Designing a training program for workplace safety issues
• Redesigning employee performance evaluations
• Establishing on-site day care or providing other child care benefits
• Providing gym membership or creating an on-site workout facility
• Creating or revising a charitable contribution policy
• Creating or improving a tuition assistance program
• Accommodations needed for employee/s with specific health issues (for example, migraines)

Some students have chosen topics outside of their workplaces, such as the following:

• Getting additional lighting in the neighborhood
• Changing traffic patterns around your child’s school
• Starting a PTA website for your child’s school
• Constructing a crying baby room at your place of worship
• Offering ESL courses at your church
• Increasing participation in a military Family Support Group
• Introducing a youth sports program to a school or community
• Changing the design of a class for your university
• Changing the learning management system for online classes for your university

Submitting the assignment:  

You will submit a first draft of the essay to the assignment folder.  The first draft will not be graded.  The instructor will provide comments to it.

After receiving comments from the instructor, you will submit a revised draft.  The final draft will be graded.

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In this similar context, it can be said that customer service is a kind of systematic process which is utilized in order to make certain that customer satisfaction is achieved by delivering products as well as services according to the demands of the consumers. In accordance with the present business situation, customer service generally takes place while operating a transaction process regarding products’ sales and service. Moreover, it is considered as a vital constituent&nbsp.for today’s business organizations in order to uphold continuous client relationship through which companies can attain superior profitability as well as growth. Due to this reason, a majority of the leading organizations are intending to execute the process of customer service effectively in order to increase the level of customer satisfaction.

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In the play, it is clear that humor is one of the conspicuous themes. In almost every situation, the writer engages a little bit of humor. This makes the play very interesting. Humor is a recurrent theme in the whole play. Humor is evident in the conversations between the characters and even their actions. The kind of statements each character makes must have a little bit of comedy. As a farce,&nbsp.the play captures comedy and absurdity in totality through humor. For instance, there so much humor in the conversation between Popov, the widow, and Smirnov. They apparently seem to get in the way of each other. Interestingly they decide to settle their scores through a duel.&nbsp.

Need an research paper on the ancient world according to plato. Needs to be 5 pages. Please no plagiarism. Similarities with Plato’s Timaeus are the existence of a Supreme Being as in the biblical Creation Story (John 15).

The Timaeus also resembles other earlier accounts of cosmogonies and cosmologies as in the belief of fire, earth air, and water existing in the beginning. This resembles the Sumerian cosmogony and other Mesopotamian cosmogonies where they believed the fire, earth air, and water were featured in the ‘first’ earth. The existence of a God in Plato’s Timaeus is similar to the existence of gods in other cosmogonies such as those of the Babylonians, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Sumerians (Sarah 25).

Plato tries to explain the perfection of the world in its formation and existence. This is in resemblance to other cosmogonies that detail how calculated and perfect the earth was in its creation and was made imperfect by the activities of mankind (John 17). Man is also a key subject as Plato’s Timaeus and other cosmogonies try to explain the origin of the earth.

Therefore in this paper, I am going to give a critical analysis of the main aspects of Plato’s Timaeus, while at the same time explaining the important role of man in Plato’s Timaeus (Sarah 29). I am going to explain the analogy between the coming to be of Timaeus’ discourse and the coming to be of the cosmos, the general structure of the Timaeus, the genesis of the order of celestial bodies and the order of the human soul and body and the relation between myths and “scientific” explanations in the Timaeus (John 19).

Looking at the general structure of Timaeus, we hear of Plato’s belief that the world is always striving to become. The world is also said to not change at all as well as have no becoming (Sarah 30). The physical world is what has referred to s the cosmos by the narrator, Plato. He states that everything in the world happens for a time and then passes away, but was never real. Plato believes that it was not the work of a Supernatural intelligent being that&nbsp.created the earth.&nbsp.

Hi, need to submit a 1250 words paper on the topic Ethical Dilemmas: School Counsellors. In this case, an ethical dilemma faced by the school counsellor is that he/she might end up requesting for information from the student that is no consistent with the aim of the entire counselling session (Iyer, 2010, p.5). An issue exist when school counsellors do not only have to protect the confidentiality of the student. they even have to abide by the parent’s right to gain information about their children (Brigman, 2005, p.21).

One way for avoiding this dilemma from even occurring is that the counsellor needs to provide different caretakers of a child including the parent, teachers as well as the administration that it is highly important for the counsellor to keep the information gained confidential (Bodenhorn, 2006). Another way through which school counsellors can avoid this issue from occurring is that they can maintain an informed consent policy (Glosoff, 2002). This means that they need to obtain consent from the caretakers of the child that information obtained during counselling sharing may not be shared with the caretakers. This consent should be in written form in order to avoid legal issues such as parents suing a counsellor for not appreciating the parent’s right to know.

At times school counsellors are faced with the issue of primary responsibility. this means that they face difficulties in drawing a line between whether their main clients are the administrators of the school or the students of the school. A school counsellor may be required by the highest authority of the school to follow his/her instructions and perform duties that are being delegated by the school principal and on the other hand, the counsellor may be required to attend a student who is experiencing distress (Froeschle, 2010). In such a scenario, the counsellor may be required to choose who they respond to first are. The ACA Code of Ethics provides direction to the school counsellors that their primary duty is to attain and maintain the wellbeing of their clients (Texas Counseling Association, 2014). &nbsp.