Week 7 Assignment 4: Email Revisions

Due Week 7 and worth 100 points

Revise the two (2) emails below to remove problematic content and help these students construct polite, effective email messages instead.

Scenario 1:

Susan is unhappy with her grade in her college class. She wants to clarify what she can do to improve in the course. She also feels like venting her frustrations to her professor due to the many hours she is spending studying and writing papers (which may or may not be a good idea). She decides to email her professor; however, before she hits SEND, she asks you, her friend, to take a look at the email.

Reading the email, you note a lack of civility, polarizing language, and other unethical language (given the context). Help Susan rewrite her email, so she can express her concerns over her poor grade politely and ask for help from the professor.

Susan’s Email:

(No greeting) I want to know why my grade was so bad. I spent hours finding sources and writing that paper and it was graded unfair. My friend wrote her paper the night before it was due and got a better grade. I know most professors grade hard but this is ridiculous. I felt good when I submitted the paper but now I feel like crap. I guess I am going to fail. (No closing)

Scenario 2:

Don is worried about passing his college class due to some low grades. He wants to ask his professor for help to pass the class. He decides to email his professor; however, before he hits SEND, he decides to ask you, his friend, to take a look at the email.

Reading the email, you note a lack of civility, poor manners, and poor grammar in Don’s email. Help Don rewrite the email, so he can express his concerns and appropriately seek help from the professor.

Don’s Email:

(No greeting) Yo teach. I dunno no way to pass this class. What I gotta do to pass? (No closing)

Instructions:

1. Create two (2) new email messages of one to two (1-2) paragraphs each for a total of two to four (2-4) paragraphs.

1. Create an appropriate greeting and closing for each email.
2. Target the appropriate professional audience.
3. Use appropriate language for professional audience.
4. Use appropriate email formatting.

1. Follow appropriate netiquette rules for electronic communication.
2. Meet the 100-to-200-word minimum requirement for each email revision.
3. Use correct sentence mechanics, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and style.

1. Provide the following heading on page one of your email and then begin your email:
   1. TO: Insert Professor’s Name
   2. FROM: Insert Your Name
   3. DATE: Insert Assignment’s Due Date
   4. RE: Create a title that relates to your topic and gets your audience’s attention

Summative Assessment

You are a worker in a fast growing, large, non-union manufacturing organization. You notice persistent systematic labor violations in the plant. The company has multiple locations in the United States and plants in China and France. People are complaining about the working conditions and wages. A group of your fellow workers are talking about the need to fight back. There seems to be a willingness to organize. You have decided to seek the help of a Union. Write the following information in proposal format. Remember to follow APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center and to cite at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text. TEXT BOOK Employee and Labor Relations by Gwen Seaquist

• Describe the union organizing process.
• Identify the union you would choose to help you organize and explain why.
• Describe the the responsibilities of the workers.
• Describe what the unions can do to help labor.
• Explain what management can legally say and do when they learn an organization movement is in progress.
• Explain what can be done to help the workers overseas organize.
• Explain why the global nature of the business does or does not influence the organization and bargaining process.

Note: Be sure to check that your Turnitin Similarity Index does not exceed 10% (excluding reference page).

The grade for your research paper makes up 30% of your final grade. It is not possible to do poorly on your final paper and get an A or B in this class. Make sure your writing is clear and to the point. You must use APA format. You cannot just have a works cited list, you must cite within your paper where the information came from. Double check your grammar—the sentence subject and verb must agree—you cannot have a singular subject with a plural verb, and vice versa. For example: WRONG: The student work hard. CORRECT: The student works hard. “The student” is singular—one student. “Work” is a plural verb. “Works” is a singular verb.

Politics represents efforts by people in governmental and nongovernmental settings to secure their policy wishes by developing and using power resources.

—Bruce S. Jansson, Becoming an Effective Policy Advocate: From Policy Practice to Social Justice (8th ed.)

Social workers are in the business of empowering people. They are also often faced with power structures that are entrenched and difficult to navigate. Skillful policy practitioners recognize the many kinds of power resources that exist, thus expanding their options in specific situations. As a social worker, you will learn various strategies that can create and expand personal networks that might be useful in negotiating your policy practice within an agency. You want your power resources to be recognized as effective ways to get things done, not as coercion and force.

In this Discussion, you identify various kinds of power resources (including person-to-person, substantive, process, and procedural) that you can use to secure the adoption of a policy proposal.

To prepare: Review Chapter 10 in your text, focusing on Jansson’s categorization of types of power resources in the policy-enacting task.

By Day 3 (use 4 peer reviewed APA references, use sub-headings, be detailed in response)

• Post a description of how social workers use power resources in their social work practice and advocacy.
• Select a type of power resource you would use in your practice and advocacy.
• Describe the ethical issues or concerns in using the type of power resource you selected.

Be sure to support your post with specific references to this week’s resources. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references.

Reference

Jansson, B. S. (2018). Becoming an effective policy advocate: From policy practice to social justice (8th ed.). Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole Cengage Learning Series.

• Chapter 10, “Developing and Using Power in the Policy-Enacting Task” (pp. 372-419)

Rocha, C., Poe, B., & Thomas, V. (2010). Political activities of social workers: Addressing perceived barriers to political participation. Social Work, 55(4), 317–325.

This Portfolio Project has two parts: Calculations and a 4- to 6-page essay. While the calculation requirements of this assignment are important, equally important are your discussion and analysis of the quantitative results. You will submit two documents: 1) a spreadsheet containing your horizontal and vertical analysis (and perhaps your ratios) in Module 7 and 2) a word document containing your essay.

In Module 7, you submitted your spreadsheet. For this module, you will take what you submitted in your spreadsheet, and use that information to write your paper.

Directions:

Your paper must:

• Be 4-6 pages in length.
• Include a proper introduction and conclusion.
• Include a reference page.
• Provide your reader with an overall understanding of the financial health of your chosen firm including the following:

• • Discussion of the ratio analysis results, including rationale for the ratios chosen.
  • Discussion of all horizontal and vertical analysis from above.
  • Discussion of four items from the management discussion of the firm that support the conclusion formed in your discussion of the financial results.

Watch the Love Canal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iSFgZ-SlaU ) and Santa Clara Water District (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGTDxUsCGeQ ) videos on the class website.

Love Canal happened in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. It resulted in a major Environmental Protection Act (EPA) called CERCLA or Superfund.

After watching the videos and reviewing the information posted on Superfund in the PowerPoint of the website, answer the following questions:

1) Who was Lois Gibbs and what was her role in the Love Canal event?

2) What was the main chemical found at Love Canal. What health issues does that chemical cause?

3) What are the major issues you see with the Love Canal case study? How did it happen and who specifically do you think is to blame?

4) What could and should have been done to keep Love Canal from happening?

5) What specifically does the Superfund Act accomplish? Do you think it is effective?

6) Love Canal has supposedly been cleaned up? Do you think it is?

7) After watching the video on the Santa Clara County Water District, how do you feel about their ability to clean and use contaminated water? Do you have any concerns?

8) We all love our new technological products developed in Silicon Valley. Do you have any concerns that the chemicals used in the manufacturing process of semiconductors and computer chip technology back in the 1980’s can have an impact on our health today? Why or why not? Do some research and state your sources