ENGL 1302 Research/Argument Essay

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I have been struggling with my essay in ENGL 1302. I need some help. It is Argumentative Research Essay and the topic that I choose is Artificial Intelligence.

Here is the Guideline. Please read it carefully. Thanks.

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Argumentative Research Essay

Assignment Description

In upper level courses, you will often be asked to demonstrate your ability to converse with other scholars in your field. Your job is to make a claim about a debatable topic and to persuade the reader to accept your claim. Your paper must be written so that it is convincing even for a skeptical audience. In other words, be fair and unbiased when acknowledging what others say about your topic, but then prove why they are wrong using logical reasons and credible evidence. In this essay, you must synthesize various sources while persuading the reader to accept your viewpoint. You do not want to simply report what others are saying, but engage in a dialogue with them.

Your research paper MUST include the following:

  • A clearly stated thesis in the introduction that articulates your position and what you want to argue in your paper
  • Clear reasons with supporting evidence
  • A synthesis of sources; do not simply summarize your source material, but show how they are connected and respond to them
  • A minimum of three credible and relevant sources
  • A minimum of three pages in MLA format, not including the MLA Works Cited
  • A Works Cited page in MLA format with corresponding in-text citations

Purpose and Learning Objectives

The purpose of this assignment is to practice persuasive writing and synthesis of sources. You will increase your critical thinking skills by analyzing yours and others’ assumptions, evaluating multiple perspectives, and developing a clear position. Writing, research, and eloquent written expression are vital for a successful future. You will express all of these skills in this assignment. This essay will be used as the English department assessment for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s mandated core curriculum assessment of Student Learning Outcomes (SLO). This essay will address the SLO objectives of critical thinking and written communication.

Your research paper should demonstrate the following learning objectives:

  • Awareness of the audience to whom you are speaking
  • Awareness of the purpose of your argument
  • Ability to enter into a scholarly conversation
  • Ability to write a qualified and narrow argumentative thesis statement
  • Ability to synthesize information from various sources
  • Ability to craft an argument with different types of relevant, credible, and detailed support
  • Ability to research and identify academic sources
  • Ability to summarize, paraphrase, and quote while citing correctly in MLA to avoid plagiarism
  • Ability to converse in standard, academic English

Minimum Requirements

Length: Minimum of 600 words and maximum of 900, not including the Works Cited page. Style: Essay needs to conform to MLA standards, including double spacing in Times New Roman font, and must include a Works Cited page with correct in-text (parenthetical) citations for all quotes, paraphrases, and/or summaries. Sources: Three (3) sources minimum.

Process of Completion

  1. Choose a topic relevant to your chosen field of study, or one you may be considering. Get it approved by your instructor.
  2. Write down everything that you know about your topic in your notebook. What can you verify? What is common knowledge and what needs a source to prove that it is true? Find credible sources to prove anything that is not common knowledge.
  3. Begin preliminary research to discover more about your topic. Do a basic Google search and read popular sources to broaden your knowledge. Remember that dot-com and Wikipedia are tertiary sources and not credible for citing in an academic essay. You are just gaining more knowledge right now.
  4. Narrow your topic and formulate a working thesis. Then come up with research questions to guide your research. Remember that good research begins with questions, not beliefs.
  5. Begin research using the Richland library databases http://www.richlandcollege.edu/library/. Academic Search Complete is the best database to begin your research. Do a web search for credible sources to include in your essay. Use newspapers, organizations, or government websites. Find a minimum of three credible sources to use in your essay.
  6. In your notebook, annotate the three sources you want to use in your essay. Take careful notes over the author’s claim and purpose. Respond in your notebook. Do you agree, disagree, or have mixed feelings about the ideas in these sources?
  7. Put together an outline to help organize your ideas.
  8. Choose the sections of your sources that you want to include in your essay. Be sure to include a variety of paraphrases, quotes, and summaries.
  9. Write your rough draft. Don’t worry about grammar now; just put your thoughts down on paper.
  10. Put your essay away for twenty-four hours before revising it for grammar and punctuation mistakes. Visit the English Corner for more help with revision or expanding your ideas.
  11. Come to all peer reviews and turn in all drafts. Review carefully your peers’ comments before submitting the final essay to me.
  12. Review your Safe Assign report for plagiarism BEFORE turning in your final draft!
  13. Reread your essay one last time and make any final edits or changes before turning in your final!

Helpful Resources

The English Corner has several handouts that can help you draft your essay. Please see the English Corner website: http://richlandcollege.edu/worldlanguages/english-department/english-corner/handouts/

Plagiarism

Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Plagiarism includes failing to cite a direct quote with quotation marks and an in-text citation, borrowing someone else’s work without a correct citation, bad paraphrasing (Safe Assign will not identify a good or fair paraphrase), purchasing a paper, having someone else write your essay, or turning in the same paper to two different classes. Any paper with plagiarism, even accidental (I forgot to cite that!), will receive a zero as a final grade. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to cite correctly. See both MLA citation PPTs on eCampus or visit Purdue OWL for more help https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Cultural Interview (Original Work)

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Question description

Cultural Interview

Part 1: Interview an individual or family from a culture other than their own. If time does not allow for an in person interview, try a phone interview or ask questions via e-mail. Before your meeting, develop a list of approximately 10 questions on the following topics:

  • Importance and role of the family
  • Religion/spirituality
  • Gender issues
  • Attitudes about mainstream U.S. culture
  • Social class
  • Cultural values
  • Language issues
  • Ambition and family obligations
  • Adapting to America or to a new region of America
  • Experiences with microaggressions or more direct forms of racism or discrimination

Part 2: Write a 4 to 6 page paper summarizing what you learned in the interview. Support or negate your findings with support from research in the Library. Your paper should include 4 to 6 sources from peer reviewed journals.

GitHub

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You are writing a 2-page paper on GitHub. Use MLA format, cite your sources on a separate page.

Suggestions for content include: defining/explaining it, giving some history, how it is used in the Iformation system field, how do systems analysts or developers use it, discuss how you might see yourself using it either for your courses or at work, etc.

Formula for a successful submission

  1. Clear and accurate content; insightful, specific.
  2. Content shows higher level analysis and synthesis of concepts and uses course vocabulary.
  3. If material/sources other than the text is used, student provided adequate and appropriate citations throughout assignment.
  4. Works cited are formatted in the correct MLA style.
  5. Use of correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation; well organized; one idea follows another in a logical sequence with clear transitions; format easy to navigate.

 Licensure of Health Professionals

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Background

All fifty states have statutes that establish the requirement to be licensed to practice in a specific health profession (ie., medicine, dentistry, nursing, etc.). A professional must be licensed in the state in which s/he intends to practice. One aspect of the state statute defines the “scope of practice” for each specialty. In other words, the statute defines what type(s) of health care service the professional’s license permits them to do.

Assignment

You are the Credentialing Coordinator in the Medical Staff office at MU Health System. Dr. Rachel Livewell has just been appointed VP, Medical Affairs. She is new to your community and previously worked as a family practitioner in another state. Dr. Gomez has asked you to prepare a short memorandum (2 pages) that explains the scope of privileges for 3 licensed health care professions that are practicing at MU Health System.

In your memorandum identify your choice of one (1) state and three (3) different types health professions, other than medical doctor, licensed by your state. Compare each of the three health professions’ allowed scope of practice to that of a medical doctor. Your memorandum should illustrate that all licensed health care professionals, other than physicians, have limits on their scope of practice. Include a list of sources for your research at the end of your memorandum, as an appendix.

Business discussion

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Our Weiss textbook in Chapter 1 offers a brief summary of Kohlberg’s three levels (six stages) of moral development. You may recollect these from your undergraduate psychology courses. The central point for business is that Kohlberg’s work offers a way to observe behavior (level of moral maturity) in our world of business transactions. Recall that developmental theorists equate growth to stages in life and that this movement is not prescribed (having a set timeline) but that movement from one stage to another is sequential (one must travel through stage A to reach stage B and so on). According to Kohlberg, few of us reach Level 3, Stage 6 (acting right according to universal principles of justice and rights). Was Kohlberg right? That is, do you agree with his stages of moral development? And, if few of us can (will) reach Level 3, Stage 6, why is this so?

Kohlberg’s Levels and Stages Of Moral Development

Level 1: Preconventional level (self-orientation)

Stage 1: Punishment avoidance

Stage 2: Reward seeking

Level 2: Conventional level (others orientation)

Stage 3: Good person

Stage 4: Law and order

Level 3: Postconventional, Autonomous, or Principles Level(universal, humankind orientation)

Stage 5: Social contract

Stage 6: Universal ethical principles

help me wirte a reflection for sailing class

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It was my second time to go to Muskegon to
sail. The first time, it was in last term that I bring my friend to Muskegon
who chose this class. Muskegon’s weather is cold. Wind is strong on the lake. I
asked professor many questions. One of question, he said when he adjusted
direction, he could sleep, and I asked him that if the wind change direction
that would be dangers, why are you sleeping? He said there are three alarms,
which can wake you up when wind change direction. He teaches us how to hoist a
sail and hauling down the canvas. He also teaches us how to change a sail direction
when wind change direction. Firstly, I think change a sail direction to adapt
to wind direction which need two people to change it. But the professor showed
us how to deal this with a person. And we took many pictures when we were
sailing on the lake. The Muskegon is 2 hours form EastLansing where my school
is at.

Correctional Policy Issues

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In Chapter 12 of The Public Policy of Crime and Criminal Justice, Marion and Oliver (2012) address numerous issues surrounding corrections such as the role of private prisons as a way to reduce prison overcrowding. To frame this discussion, you should consider the following questions:

  • What should we do about prison overcrowding?
  • What role will prisons play in the future?
  • Will the focus be punishment or treatment?
  • Does the state have a responsibility to train inmates with employment skills?
  • Should we allow inmate labor (prison industries) as a for-profit industry?

Initial Post: You will select a corrections policy issue addressed in one of your texts. Examine the issues surrounding the corrections policy issue, and determine the effects of the policy on the other components of the criminal justice system. Support your claims with examples from the required materials and/or other scholarly sources, and properly cite your references

Respond to the following peer discussion.

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Please respond to the following:

  • From the Activity, determine critical reasons why a multinational corporation might decide to borrow money from a country such as Brazil, where interest rates are high, rather than from a country like Switzerland, where interest rates are low. Provide support for your rationale.

Regularly, it usually is enticing for a multinational enterprise to acquire cash from economies with low premiums. Be that as it may, this is not a suitable procedure. This strengthens the more significant part of the multinational companies to obtain cash from nations with high financing costs instead of the nations with low loan costs. There are exists different vital reasons that clarify why the multinational organization may choose to obtain from high intrigues economies, for example, Brazil. To start with, the level of relative swelling rates noteworthy influences the choice to acquire in economies with higher loan fees. Since an organization may spare from getting from a nation with lower loan costs. On the other hand, the relative expansion rates could make the funds acknowledge in future creating an increment in the yearly hobbies and vital installments of the advances after some time. In this way, the lower loan cost could be more than counterbalanced by misfortunes from the cash appreciation. The relative expansion rates, as a rule, expand the level of relative loan costs.

The rate of swelling in the outside nations is another key reason that has noteworthy ramifications for multinational money-related choices. It is clear that the swelling rates will significantly impact the future creation costs both at home and abroad. Obtaining from nations with high loan fees offers in guaranteeing some assistance with stabling productivity in future. This is because the adjustments in the relative expansion rates in other outside countries will not antagonistically influence the capacity of the multinational enterprise to reimburse its obligations. Another critical element is the trade rates between the outside coinage and the residential money of firm. In the event that outside money will normal, deteriorate, or acknowledge against the residential coin at a rate around equivalent to the sum by which the swelling rate surpasses or is not precisely the U.S rate, the cash will, by and large, acknowledge. Accordingly, the impacts of swelling, loan fees and trade rates are critical explanations behind the multinational partnerships choosing to get from nations with high financing costs as opposed to nations with low financing cost.

  • From the scenario, select two (2) potential international markets in which TFC may wish to do business. Compare the currency markets of the two (2) countries you have chosen with that of the U.S. dollar. Based on currency considerations only, recommend whether TFC should expand to the international markets that you have chosen.

Taking into account the situation, I can choose Brazil and China as the two potential universal markets, in which TFC may wish to extend and begin doing his business. The two countries are a piece of the developing economies over the world. The economies have an enormous potential for development and extension. Subsequently, TFC tries to profit by their financial potential to pick up business achievement and development . The correlation of the Chinese and Brazilian money markets demonstrates that the trade estimation of the Chinese Yuan against is lower than the trade estimation of Brazilian genuine.

Ordinarily, the Brazilian genuine is double the Chinese Yuan. The Brazil money business sector is stable to handle any worldwide remote trade variances. Aside from every single, both currencies, the Brazilian genuine and the Chinese Yuan have ideal trade esteem against the U.S dollar. The Chinese economy has likewise become enormously with the accessibility of shoddy work expanding the estimation of the Chinese Yuan. Accordingly, it is recommendable for TFC to go ahead with its development to the two global markets chose.

References

Crotty, Epstein & Kelly (2014). Multinational corps in a neo-liberal regime. Cambridge University Press. p. 2.

I need help with my Week Two Assignment

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Week Two Assignment

Comparing Leadership Models

oDue Mar 26 6:00 PM (PST)

oNot Submitted

oPOINTS 8

  • Presentation
  • no new messages

Objectives:

  • 2.1

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to provide the student with an opportunity to understand and analyze the Universal Model of Leadership in the text, and compare it to one other model to see the similarities and differences.

Assignment Steps

Create a 10- to 12-slide PowerPoint® presentation to compare the Universal Model of Leadership in Mastering Leadership to one other leadership model.

Include the following:

Include a graphic to compare and contrast those two models, noting similarities and differences.

Develop your conclusions regarding the significance of those models in business. How might they apply?

Include detailed speaker notes, supporting citations, and references.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

analyze and interpret research from scientific and mathematical/analytic perspectives of inquire paper

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Compose a focused paper that explains and describes your healthcare issue/topic from the scientific and mathematical/analytical perspectives of inquiry. (You will cover two perspectives in one paper.)

Address your general topic by forming and answering two levels of research questions for each inquiry.

  • Choose a “Level 1 Research Question/Writing Prompt” from both of the lists below to answer in the paper.
  • Compose a “Level 2 Research Question/Writing Prompt” for each kind of inquiry that provides detail, specificity, and focus to your inquiry, research, and writing.
  • State your research questions in the introduction of your paper.
  • Answer each research question and support your assertions with evidence (research) to form the body of your paper.
  • In the conclusion of the paper, briefly review the issues, research questions, answers, and insights.
Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts
SCIENTIFIC Perspective of Inquiry

  • What are the anatomical, physiological, pathological, or epidemiological issues?
  • Which body systems are affected?
  • What happens at the cellular or genetic level?
  • Which chemical or biological issues are most important?
Level 1 Research Questions/Writing Prompts
MATHEMATICAL/ANALYTICAL Perspective of Inquiry

  • What are the economic issues involved?
  • Which economic theories or approaches best explain the issue?
  • What are the statistical facts related to the issue?
  • Which statistical processes used to study the issue provide for the best explanation or understanding?

Your paper must be five pages in length and reference four to six scholarly, peer-reviewed resources. Be sure to follow current APA formatting standards (spacing, font, headers, titles, abstracts, page numbering, etc.).