Assignment 3: Persuasive Paper Part 1: A Problem Exists

Using your thesis statement and research, present the problem that needs to be addressed with your proposed solution. Note: Your solution, advantages, and challenges, will be in Parts 2 and 3.

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

1. Provide an appropriate title and an interesting opening paragraph to appeal to your stated audience (appeal with logic, ethics, or emotion).
2. Include a defensible, relevant thesis statement in the first paragraph. (Revised from Assignment 2)
3. Describe the history and status of the issue and provide an overview of the problem(s) that need to be addressed. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
4. Explain the first problem (economic, social, political, environmental, complexity, inequity, ethical/moral, etc.) and provide support for your claims. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
5. Explain the second problem (economic, social, political, environmental, complexity, inequity, ethical/moral, etc.). and provide support for your claims. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
6. Explain the third problem (economic, social, political, environmental, complexity, inequity, ethical/moral, etc.) and provide support for your claims. This should be one or two (1-2) paragraphs.
7. Provide a concluding paragraph that summarizes the stated problems and promises a solution.
8. Develop a coherently structured paper with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
9. Use effective transitional words, phrases, and sentences throughout the paper.
10. Support claims with at least three (3) quality, relevant references. Use credible, academic sources available through Strayer University’s Resource Center. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not qualify as academic resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting guidelines:

• 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.

Note: Submit your assignment to the designated plagiarism program so that you can make revisions before submitting your paper to your professor.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Recognize the elements and correct use of a thesis statement.
• Recognize the use of summary, paraphrasing, and quotation to communicate the main points of a text.
• Analyze the rhetorical strategies of ethos, pathos, logos in writing samples and for incorporation into essays or presentations.
• Prepare a research project that supports an argument with structure and format appropriate to the genre.
• Recognize how to organize ideas with transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
• Incorporate relevant, properly documented sources to substantiate ideas.
• Write clearly and concisely about selected topics using proper writing mechanics.
• Use technology and information resources to research selected issues for this course.

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Correlation coefficient between “Months with service (tenure)” and “Household Income (income) is 0.243 as obtained from SPSS. This value is significant at 1% level of significance. This implies that there is weak positive linear relationship between the two variables. That is as the value of Months with service increases the value of household income increases slightly.

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Correlation doesn’t necessarily mean causation. Correlation measures the degree of association between the two variables. Or in other words it measures the strength of linear relationship between them. But causation means the change in one variable is caused by other.

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The value of correlation coefficient is 0.243. There is weak positive linear relationship between the two variables. That is as the value of Months with service increases the value of household income increases slightly.

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According to Kendall’s tau b, the value of correlation coefficient is -0.112. This implies that there is weak negative relationship or almost no relationship between the two variables.

According to spearman’s tho the value of correlation coefficient is -0.152. This also implies that there is weak negative relationship or almost no relationship between the two variables.

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I used one-tailed test to test the significance of negative relationship between the two variables namely “Level of Education” and “Age in Years.” Here my null hypothesis is that the value of correlation coefficient is not significant, that is p =0. While my alternative hypothesis is that the value of correlation coefficient is significant, that is p < 0.

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Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient is calculated between two variables which are measured on interval or Ratio scale of measurement. The Ratio level of measurement has equal differences between scale values and equal quantitative meaning. It has a true zero point. A true zero point means that a value of zero on the scale represents zero quantity of the construct being assessed. Here, both tenure andincome variables are measured on Ratio scale of measurement.

Spearman’s and Kendall’s Correlation coefficient is calculated between two variables which are measured on a ordinal scale. The ordinal level of measurement describes variables that can be ordered or ranked in some order of importance. Here age and education are measured on ordinal level of measurement. It measures the monotonic relationship between the two variables.

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Null hypothesis Ho: Marital status and Churn within last month is independent. Versus alternative hypothesis, H1: Marital status and Churn within last month isn’t independent. With p > 0.05, I fail to reject Ho at 5% level of significance and conclude that marital status and Churn within last month are independent.

Objective:

Conduct a critical analysis for one of the counter-claims offered by Bjorn Lomborg in his 2001 article ‘The Truth About the Environment’ in The Economist (1500 words max, excluding any tables, figures or references).

Background:

The course is presenting global environmental problems as products of human institutions that reflect individual and social values and behaviour. Efforts to “solve” environmental problems are often aided by understanding how people develop and express their knowledge of relevant issues—of what truth is. This assignment requires an analysis of claims about the truth of global change.

What is required:

Read Lomborg (2001) ‘The Truth About the Environment’. Lomborg argues that the “litany of environmental fears” is not factually supported, including fears that:

• “natural resources are running out”;
• human “population is ever growing, leaving less and less to eat”;
• “species are becoming extinct…forests are disappearing and fish stocks are collapsing”; and “the planet’s air and water are becoming ever more polluted.”

Conduct a critical review of one of the following four empirical counter-claims Lomborg makes by finding evidence from credible sources that supports or denies it:

1. “energy and other natural resources have become more abundant, not less so”
2. “more food is now produced per head of the world’s population than at any time in history; fewer people are starving”
3. the “threat of biodiversity loss is real, but exaggerated”
4. “pollution is also exaggerated”

Your paper should be organized as follows (using these section headings):

1. Background (approx. 15-20% of paper’s content, about 1⁄2 page): Introduce the counter-claim that you are selecting from the Lomborg reading. Summarize which global environmental problem it relates to, and how this fits in with REM-100.
2. Critical review (approx. 50-66% of paper’s content, about 2 pages): Discuss at least four credible sources (including at least two peer-reviewed scholarly articles) that evaluate the counter-claim you have chosen. Summarize the arguments made by each source, including whether they support or negate Lomborg’s counter-claim. Note that REM100 lecture slides are not an appropriate source. Also describe why the source is credible and critically consider if it may have any bias and why. Possible biases may involve opinion-based claims that have no scientific-proven facts behind them or research that might have been not completely objective because it was funded by a special interest group.

1. Conclusion (approx. 15-20% of paper’s content, about 1/2 page): Offer a clear conclusion, based on the evidence you identified and assessed, about whether the counter-claim you evaluate is more likely to be true or false (or a combination of both).
2. Reference list! Including all articles, reports and websites cited in the body of your assignment.

Resources:

The REM Liaison Librarian has kindly prepared a web page with useful references and tips to help with this assignment. You can access it at: http://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/research-assistance/ subject/rem/rem100-term-paperor by going to the main library page, hit ‘Research Guides’ under Research Help, choose REM and then click on ‘Term paper’ in the REM100 section under the ‘Help with Course Assignments’ heading.

If you have any questions about the assignment, get in contact with your TM.

Steps in critical thinking

(Source Karen Warren)

• Identify and evaluate premises and conclusions in an argument.
• Acknowledge and clarify uncertainties, vagueness, equivocation and contradictions.
• Distinguish between facts and values (can assertions be ‘tested’?).
• Recognize and interpret assumptions (do these reflect bias?).
• Distinguish the reliability or unreliability of a source (how expert are the sources?).
• Recognize and understand conceptual frameworks (where is the author coming from?).

Symptoms of Doubtful Assertions and Weak Arguments in Media Articles

(compiled by Marcie Dumais and Tamara Hansen)

• The main point is unclear.
• Evidence provided to support the argument is inadequate.
• Analogies used are illogical.
• Opinion and fact are intermingled.
• Uses celebrity to endorse argument.
• Vague references are used in place of specific references, e.g. “Most dentists agree that …”. Author is unaware of own biases.
• Author is affiliated with or seeks to profit from a stakeholder in the argument.
• Graphs are used to distort the appearance of results.
• Evidence from an experiment fails to mention the ‘control’ group.
• Attributes stereotypical characteristics to members of a particular group.
• Scientific information may contain misconceptions or be misleading.
• A percentage or fraction is given without the total sample size, e.g. “9 out of 10 dentists …”.

Along with these guidelines for critical thinking, consider the following:

1. Accuracy:

• Are the statistics and facts stated accurate?
• Can you verify these facts and/or statistics elsewhere?
• Does the information presented seem credible to you? Does the article contain much opinion and few facts?

2. Authority:

• Can you tell who the author of the information is?
• What are the qualifications and reputation of the writer?
• Is the writer an expert in his or her field?
• What is the author’s point of view? Is the author’s bias clearly stated?
• Is the author affiliated with an organization that might have an interest or stake in the information presented?
• What is the author’s motivation for writing this article?

3. Currency:

• Is the information up-to-date?
• Is the author quoting older studies whose findings may now be out of date?

4. Completeness:

• Does the information presented seem complete or does it seem that something might be missing?
• Has the author made a selective reference to only one part of published work, perhaps creating a misleading impression of what that work stated?

5. Documentation:

• Does the article explain how the information was obtained?
• Do the authors provide specific, named references to other information resources which show where their information comes from?
• Are you able to check and see that these references exist and that they seem credible?

6. Level:

• Who is the intended audience for the information?
• Is the level of treatment academic or popular, expert or novice?

W4 Assignment: SCARF Project

For this assignment you will write a reflective essay, where you will analyze how SCARF impacts you personally within your career. If you are not working, it can be a former career.

You will analyze the elements of; Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Fairness, and Relatedness in general and then provide examples to develop a framework of how you personally respond to each element within your current workplace. You may use your assessment results from the unit one work to support your discussion.

Finally, discuss how the SCARF model and your assessment results either confirmed aspects that you already believed about yourself or whether they are at odds with your self-perception of yourself within an organizational group.

The assignment should be submitted as a Word document, APA format is required. Title page and reference page are not counted in the 3-4 page count requirement.

please check the attachment, all the requirements are included in this attachment.

Needs to include all these structures:

• Abstract
• Brief history of the company
• Current state of the financial health of the company
• Trends in the financial health over recent years and potentially into the future
• Comparison of the subject company with at least one or two competitors and/or industry sector
• • Analysis of the subject company’s industry sector
  • Assessing the company’s position within the industry context
    • Is it a leader?
    • Does it have a clear advantage vis a vis other industry participants?
    • Is it subject to extreme competition or pricing pressure?
  • Conclusion
    • Will you (your opinion is all that matters, supported by your analysis)

  §Buy the Company’s bonds in the medium to long term (5 to 10 years).If the Company does not issue bonds, would you buy the Company’s bonds if they did issue bonds? §Buy the Company’s common stock in the medium to long-term (5 to 10 years)

The conclusion of the Company Analysis paper will be whether you (not a rating agency, not a brokerage firm, not any other entity), but will you

oBuy the Company’s bonds in the medium to long term (5 to 10 years).If the Company does not issue bonds, would you buy the Company’s bonds if they did issue bonds?

oBuy the Company’s common stock in the medium to long-term (5 to 10 years)