2 part Discussion Question for these stories.

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Part 1 . Im going attach the files

Using Herr’s “Breathing In,” and using Chapter 15 of “On Closer Examination,” please answer these questions: What is the central conflict? Which side–if any–does the text seem to favor? What’s your evidence? How might others interpret the evidence differently? What’s your opinion of the text? (Questions are also on p. 192).

Part 2

Using the book Hillbilly Elegy Book by J. D. Vance

Toward the end of Chapter 5, we’re told about an intense and pivotal moment in Vance’s life. After some build up, he is in a car with his his emotionally volatile mother and she threatens to kill him. Scared, he runs away from her and ends up at a stranger’s house; thanks to the quick thinking of that stranger, the police arrest his mother.

Yet during the court hearing for his mother’s case, Mamaw tells Vance to tell the judge that his mother never threatened him. By lying to the judge, Vance will keep his mother out of jail. He does this, and his mother is freed.

Why does Vance feel so dedicated to his mother? She tried to kill him, and it seems like he was genuinely afraid for his life, yet he says the words to set her free. Or does Vance do this reluctantly, and only because Mamaw told him to lie? And do you see any connection between this incident and Mamaw teaching him to fight? Did Mamaw let her grandson down at a crucial moment, or is Vance’s willingness to lie so his mother won’t go to jail just another example of hillbilly values and placing family above all? Be sure to use examples from the text to support your answer.

3 Questions about ethical issues and ways to solve them

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Here are the Questions:

Question 1

Identify an ethical issue that has occurred in the business world. Imagine that you believe in utilitarianism as the best model for solving ethical dilemmas. Briefly discuss the issue – just enough so that your instructor understands the issue. Then discuss how you, as a utilitarian, would address the issue. Does this ethical model lead to appropriate remedies to the issue? (300-400 words)

Question 2

Identify an ethical issue that has occurred in the business world. Imagine that you believe in deontology (Kantian ethics) as the best model for solving ethical dilemmas. Briefly discuss the issue – just enough so that your instructor understands the issue. Then discuss how you, as a proponent of Kantian ethics, would address the issue. Does this ethical model lead to appropriate remedies to the issue?

(300-400 words)

Question 3

Based on your critique and comparison of various ethical models throughout the semester, especially in Journals 6 and 11, discuss the ethical model that best represents your approach to solving ethical problems. Your model should be tailored to your own beliefs and values.

Do you think that your model will be helpful as you face different types of ethical issues (e.g. with supervisors, employees, peers, customers/clients; external stakeholders)? Is there any type of issue for which your model might not be a resource for you?

(400-500 words)

WORKS CITED FOR EACH QUESTION SEPARATELY

Social, Ethical and Legal Implications

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Purpose of Assignment

The purpose of this assignment is to help students think through the importance of social, legal, and ethical issues that may arise with their product or service and the implications of decisions made within those frameworks. It is designed to help the learners understand ethical and legal issues related to marketing practices. This knowledge helps to prevent such issues when developing the marketing strategies in their marketing plan. The executive overview of the marketing plan is not a summary and conclusion, but an overview of what the plan entails and what it does not address.

Assignment Steps

Note: the Social, Ethical, and Legal Implications assignment is part of the total marketing plan as outlined in the grading guide. It is not a separate paper.

Resources: Marketing Plan and Outline Please Note that this outline includes many of the topics/concepts you may not have selected to write about your company. Therefore, this is not the format of your final paper. See Below the order you will merge your papers. Integrate the previous weeks’ sections, and incorporate corrections and suggestions from the instructor’s weekly feedback.

Producing and marketing a product without regard to ethical, legal, and social considerations is detrimental to the overall success of any company.

Assess in a maximum of 700 words the ethical, legal, and social issues affecting your product or service in two markets: the United States and one international market. Domestic market generally means the market where the company headquarters are located. If you choose a domestic market that is not the U.S., then your other market is required to be the U.S. marketplace. This will be included as the last section prior to your Reference Page (Alphabetize your references, hanging) of your Marketing Plan.

Include the following:

  • Develop a process to monitor and control marketing procedures and performance regarding the new country’s ethical, legal, and social differences. in your second country. This process could be a flowchart but a flowchart is not required (flowcharts do not count towards your word count requirement).

Formulate a maximum 350-word executive summary including at a minimum the following elements to include in your marketing plan:

  • Required executive summary elements:
  • Strategic Objectives
  • Products or Services
  • Optional executive summary elements:
  • Resources Needed
  • Projected Outcomes

Integrate the previous weeks’ sections, and incorporate corrections and suggestions from the instructor’s weekly feedback. The marketing plan should contain elements from each week of the course, in the following order and including:

  • Executive Summary (Week 6)
  • Understanding Target Markets (Week 2)
  • Promotion and the Product Life Cycle (Week 3)
  • Price and Channel Strategy (Week 4)
  • Marketing Communication and Brand Strategy (Week 5)
  • Legal, Social and Ethical Considerations (Week 6)

Kristee post, unethical environmental issues, the Perdue farms definitely have a few worth discussing

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reply to post in 200 words or more.

On the topic of unethical environmental issues, the Perdue farms definitely have a few worth discussing. Especially since whether we agree or disagree, we could all be affected. Since these issues affect the environment and community in a negative way, we see characteristics of socialism. The reason these issues continue to be an issue is because of profit. When it comes to Government interaction, there is a Clean Air Act and its “regulatory twin” the Clean Water Act to help control water and air pollution. However, these “concentrated animal feeding operations” have been known to escape these regulations.

Although the Environmental Protection Agency could do a lot more to help regulate these large farms, it is ultimately the moral responsibility of each company. Because of the large numbers it is hard for the EPA to keep up. The companies are well aware of the number because they have to keep up with their profit. The animals are creating large amounts of ‘raw waste” that have been linked to air and water pollution. In fact, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization finds the livestock sector to be “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems” worldwide. Since 2002, at least 68 government-sponsored or peer-reviewed studies have been completed that examined air and water quality issues associated with animal feeding operations and 15 have directly linked air and water pollutants from animal waste to specific health or environmental impacts. Deontology is the theory that moral standards are grounded in instinctiverational obligations that we have. When it comes to major farms like the Perdue farm, it is their moral obligation-duty to protect our air and water. For them to be careless with this responsibility is unethical.

·  Hoover, J. (2013). Can’t you smell that smell? Clean air act fixes for factory farm air pollution. Stanford Journal of Animal Law and Policy, 6, 1-29. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=student_pubs

Provide a company overview, business and finance homework help

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Using the same company
you have selected for all previous assignments research the corporation on its
own Website, the public filings on the Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR
database (http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml), in the University’s
online databases, and any other sources you can find. The annual report will
often provide insights that can help address some of these questions.

Outline: See Attachment

Create a twelve (12)
slide presentation in which you:

  1. Provide a company
    overview, highlighting what the company is about and the products/services it
    specializes in.
  2. Determine the impact of
    the company’s mission, vision, and primary stakeholders on its overall
    success.
  3. Analyze the five (5)
    forces of competition to determine how they impact the company.
  4. Create a SWOT analysis
    for the company to determine its major strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and
    threats.
  5. Based on the SWOT
    analysis, outline a strategy for the company to capitalize on its strengths and
    opportunities, and minimize its weaknesses and threats.
  6. Discuss the various
    levels and types of strategies the firm may use to maximize its competitiveness
    and profitability.
  7. Outline a
    communications plan the company could use to make the strategies you recommend
    above known to all stakeholders.
  8. Select two (2)
    corporate governance mechanisms used by this corporation and evaluate how
    effective they are at controlling managerial actions.
  9. Evaluate the
    effectiveness of leadership within this corporation and make at least one (1)
    recommendation for improvement.
  10. Assess efforts by this
    corporation to be a responsible (ethical) corporate citizen and determine the
    impact these efforts (or lack thereof) have on the company’s bottom line.
    Provide specific examples to support your response.
  11. Use at least five
    (5)     quality references. Note: Wikipedia and other Websites do not
    quality as academic resources.

Your assignment must
follow these formatting requirements:

  • ONLY create 12
    PowerPoint slides. Please reference the PowerPoint Outline with regards to
    setting up your slides in week 10. References must follow APA format and information
    must be cited within the notes of your presentation    . Check in the
    Student Center for tools to help with referencing.
  • Use Speaker
    Notes/PowerPoint Notes to elaborate on your slides. Also refer to the “How to
    create a PowerPoint” video.

The specific course
learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

  • Determine ways in which
    the vision, mission, and stakeholders of a firm impact that firm’s overall
    success.
  • Identify how the six
    segments of the general environment affect an industry and its firms.
  • Identify the five
    forces of competition.
  • Analyze the external
    environment for opportunities and threats that impact the firm.
  • Analyze the internal
    environment of a company for strengths and weaknesses that impact the firm’s
    competitiveness.
  • Identify various levels
    and types of strategy in a firm.
  • Assess the ethical
    implications related to strategic decisions.
  • Predict ways in which
    corporate governance will affect strategic decisions.
  • Assess the relationship
    between strategy and organizational structure.
  • Use technology and
    information resources to research issues in business administration.
  • Write clearly and
    concisely about business administration using proper writing mechanics.

​527Week 5 Discussion / 525Week 5 Discussion / 558Week 5 Discussion

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527Week 5 Discussion

“Risk Mitigation Security Controls” Please respond to the following:

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525Week 5 Discussion

“Master Yourself” Please respond to the following:

  • Consider the manner in which you usually react to conflict and determine your native conflict response behavior. Provide one (1) example that supports your conclusion. Note: This is a safe environment for everyone to share his / her personal experience. No personal attack is allowed.
  • Watch the video titled, “Agile Soft Skills” located in Section 3.13 of Module 3 in MindEdge. Suggest two (2) real-world situations where you would use two (2) of the agile soft skills covered in the video and the textbook.

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558Week 5 Discussion

“Automated Auditing” Please respond to the following:

  • CAATTs can be helpful when dealing with immense amounts of data. However, developing a CAATT system can be time consuming. Argue for or against the use of CAATT systems.
  • Identify the key elements of building an effective CAATT system. Elaborate on two (2) challenges faced when designing an effective CAATT system, and suggest possible solutions to these problems.

Shared Direction, Strategy, and Changing

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Week 4: Shared Direction, Strategy, and Changing the Organization

Introduction

Do you think mastering technology, being innovative, or possessing high qualifications will automatically make you a leader? It will definitely help you acquire a leadership position in an organization, but it may not necessarily make you asuccessful leader. To be successful, you need to be aware of the strategic issues of the organization. You also need to know what should be changed for the improvement of the organization.

This week, you will learn about the forces driving organizational change and the roles and responsibilities of leaders or managers of organizational change. You will also learn about the various elements of the strategic process of an organization and the flaws in this process.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this week, you will be able to:

  • Analyze the various roles and responsibilities of leaders and managers in organizational change
  • Identify the forces driving organizational change

Learning Resources

Please read and review this week’s Learning Resources before you complete the Discussion.

Reading

  • Course Text: Champions of Change: How CEOs and Their Companies Are Mastering the Skills of Radical Change
    • Chapter 7, “Waging the Great Campaign: Developing a Shared Direction”

      Chapter 7 explores three important avenues open to managers in the development of a shared direction in an organization. These avenues are reshaping the executive team, creating the agenda for change, and building support. The chapter explains how each of these avenues helps employees participate in the organizational change process.

      Focus on the three avenues that help managers develop a shared direction in an organization.

    • Chapter 8, “Building a New Strategy: The Strategic Choice Process”

      The implementation of the change process has four components. Chapter 8 focuses on one of these four components—the strategic choice process—and explains various elements of the process, such as intentions and concrete action. The chapter also describes the flaws in the strategic process, such as inadequate participation, unclear assumptions, and one-off decision making.

      Focus on the strategic choice process undertaken by Xerox that helped the company to build a blueprint for its future.

  • Course Text: The Deep Change Field Guide: A Personal Course to Discovering the Leader Within
    • Chapter 4, “Personal Change and Positive Organizing”
    • Chapter 5, “The Fundamental State of Leadership”
  • Case Study:Groth, T. (2003). Revolution at Oticon A/S (A): Vision for a change-competent organization. In T. D. Jick & M. A. Peiperl (Eds.), Managing change: Cases and concepts (2nd ed., pp. 268–280). Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

Welcome to the Week 4 Group Case Study Project Area!

Post your responses to the Group Case Study Project based on the course requirements.

You will need to read the following case in order to participate in the discussion this week:

Groth, T. (2003). Revolution at Oticon A/S (A): Vision for a change-competent organization

. In T. D. Jick & M. A. Peiperl (Eds.), Managing change: Cases and concepts (2nd ed., pp. 268 – 280). Boston: Irwin/McGraw Hill.
ISBN 0-25-626458-9.

Group Case Study Project – Week 4

COLLAPSE

Suppose you want to bring about a change in your organization. Do you really know how to go about making that change? You may use some type of strategy to convey the change process. You may also focus on the impact of the change and how it will benefit the organization. However, some employees might resist this change, so you need to have a backup plan to convince these employees.

Read the following case:

Groth, T. (2003). Revolution at Oticon A/S (A): Vision for a change-competent organization. In T. D. Jick & M. A. Peiperl (Eds.), Managing change: Cases and concepts (2nd ed., pp. 268 – 280). Boston: Irwin/McGraw Hill.
ISBN 0-25-626458-9.

For this Group Case Study Project, you will be assigned to a team of 3 – 5 members. Group work should be conducted within each group’s designated Group Discussion area.

In your initial posting, please address the following as a group:

  • Read and discuss the case.
  • Analyze the change effort using Nadler’s integrated change agenda – values, governance, operating environment, operational performance, organization, strategy, and purpose.
  • Include any other important components you believe should be part of a complete case analysis.
  • Make a team recommendation on how Lars Kolind should proceed, given the resistance he is facing.

With these thoughts in mind:

Conditions Communication Strategy – Starbucks Coffee Company

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As a marketing consultant, you will need to advise clients on the development of a communication strategy that has contingencies to address situations such as the one presented in the scenario. This project is designed to help you understand the types of strategies that can be adopted and address the various audiences you will encounter.

Milestone Two Scenario

An overseas contractor that is a major supplier to your chosen company has recently revealed as one that operates with poor working conditions for employees (uses child labor, pays low wages, requires long hours, no benefits, etc.).

Examples of each type of corporate communication:

  • Informational Example: When a new product is launched, the public will know nothing about it. Consider the situation when Apple launched the iPad, a totally new class of technology. In order to generate interest, the company first had to tell people about the product.
  • Educational Example: Once the target audience is aware of the new product, they often need to be educated as to why the product could be useful to them.
  • Persuasive Example: Once a new product has become successful, it is highly likely competitors will have entered the market. Communication therefore needs to persuade the target audience to purchase the version that the corporation provides rather a competitor’s version.

For the assignment, the following critical elements must be addressed:

  • Communication Context: Provide an overview of the scenario that your communication strategy will address, in the context of the company you have selected for your final project. (Company selected: Starbucks Coffee Company)
  • Communication Need: Considering both internal and external audiences, explain the stakeholder management issue(s) that must be addressed due to this scenario. What specifically caused the need for the identified communications?
  • Internal Communication:
  • External Communication:
  • Conditions Communication Strategy: Summarize the communication strategy utilized to address this scenario. Why was it the best approach for this scenario? What alternative strategies did you consider, and why was your approach the best option? Provide justification to support your communication strategy.
  • Explain the type of internal communication and the purpose for the internal communication that you have chosen (i.e., informational, educational, and/or persuasive). Detail your process for selecting the type of communication that will address the scenario. Provide justification as to why the chosen strategy is appropriate for the scenario.
  • Identify the intended target audiences for the internal communication, and then explain why they have been selected as the target audience. Provide justification for selected the identified target audience.
  • Develop a draft communication that could be sent to the identified internal target audience addressing this scenario. Ensure that the appropriate tone and message are communicated in your draft communication.
  • Explain the type of external communication and the purpose for the external communication that you have chosen (i.e., informational, educational, and/or persuasive). Detail your process for selected the type of communication that will address the scenario. Provide justification as to why the chosen strategy is appropriate for the scenario.
  • Identify the intended target audience for the external communication, and then explain why they have been selected as the target audience. Provide justification for selecting the identified target audience.
  • Develop a draft communication that could be sent to the identified external target audience addressing this scenario. Ensure that the appropriate tone and message are communicated in your draft communication.

Guidelines for Submission: Double-spaced Word document, 12-point Times New Roman font, one-inch margins, APA format. Page length requirements: 3-5 pages, not including title page and references.

Learning Objectives

  • Craft communications to address internal and external stakeholder issues
  • Craft communications to illustrate various strategies and approaches
    utilized by corporations in their communications with stakeholders

Reading and Resources

Required Resources

Textbook

Corporate Communication: A Guide to Theory and Practice, Chapter 10
While you read, consider the following questions:

  • Why is it necessary for a corporation to manage issues that arise?
  • How can issues impact a corporation’s reputation?
  • How do corporations ensure they are aware of issues quickly and efficiently?
  • How do corporations determine what type of response is required when an issue becomes public?

eBook: Handbook of Corporate Communication and Public Relations: Pure and Applied

Today’s Corporate Communication Function (pp. 200–226)
While you read, consider the following questions:

  • What impact could the issue have on the corporation and/or its stakeholders, both internal and external?
  • Could the corporation take a more active approach to deal with the issue once it has arisen? If so, how?
  • What could the corporation have done to be proactive about the issue? Could it have prevented the issue from causing a problem?
  • Study the life cycle of an issue, focusing on where it starts, how it is communicated, and by whom it is communicated.

eBook: Essentials of Corporate Communications

Chapter 2: From Communication to Reputation
While you read, consider the following questions:

  • Do you understand the differences between a company’s brand, image, and reputation?
  • What can cause a negative impact on a company’s brand, image, or reputation?

Note: SNHU has limited access to this resource. Please view this alternative resource if you experience any difficulty viewing the eBook.

eBook: Reputation Management: The Key to Successful Public Relations and Corporate Communication

Chapter 13: Corporate Responsibility
While you read, consider the following questions:

  • What does compliance have to do with corporate social responsibility (CSR)?
  • What does the issue of human rights have to do with corporate profitability?
  • Do corporations communicate their CSR activities? If so, to whom and how?

CanGo Financial Analysis, BUSN460 assignment help

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BUSN460 Senior Project
Individual Financial Analysis Project (CanGo)
Week 3

Assumptions:

  1. At the beginning of 2009, CanGo purchased the online gaming company. This purchase was for cash, paid for through the proceeds of the IPO and results in goodwill.
  2. 90% of the online book sales comes from JIT, the other 10% through the inventory which CanGo possesses. 100% of the CD/DVD/MP3 come through CanGo inventory. The result is that 80% of ALL sales is JIT and 20% is inventory.
  3. There is one warehouse for shipping of books and one plant for manufacturing.
  4. There are three divisions: a CD/DVD/MP3 division, an online gaming division and a books division. All manufacturing takes place in the CD/DVD/MP3 division.
  5. The IPO took place at the beginning of 2009.
  6. The CD/DVDs were customized beginning in 2008. The MP3 players were built beginning in the start of 2009.
  7. The online gaming company was purchased for $30,000,000 and both Elizabeth and Andrew initiated the process.
  8. The company began in 2006, has a VC infusion in 2007 and 2008. It showed a profit in 2008 and 2009. Its only profitable division is the online book sales division.
  9. It has some type of international operations, hence the need for a “translation gain or loss” in owner’s equity.
  10. It has an extraordinary loss from fire and a sale of a segment of its business in 2009.

Balance Sheet

ASSETS December 31, 2009
Cash $20,900,000
Marketable Securities $117,000,000
Accounts Receivable $33,000,000
Less: Allowance for Bad Debts $(880,000)
Net Accounts Receivable $32,120,000
Inventory
Raw Materials $2,000,000
Work-in-process $1,000,000
Finished Goods $5,000,000
Inventory Purchased for Resale $24,000,000
Total Inventory $32,000,000
Plant, Property and Equipment $6,700,000
Less: Accumulated Depreciation $(320,000)
Net Plant, Property and Equipment $6,380,000
Prepaid Expenses $200,000
Goodwill and Other Purchased Intangibles $28,000,000
Less: Amortization $(700,000)
Net Goodwill and Other Purchased Intangibles $27,300,000
Total Assets $235,900,000
LIABILITIES AND OWNERS’ EQUITY
Accounts Payable  $22,000,000
Accrued Advertising  $11,800,000
Other Liabilities and Accrued Expense $1,400,000
Current Portion of Long-Term Debt $2,300,000
Long Term Debt $57,400,000
Preferred Stock, $100 par value per share,
 100,000 authorized, 0 shares issued and outstanding $0
Common Stock, $1 par value per share,
 250,000,000 shares authorized, 13,000,000 shares
 issued, 12,900,000 outstanding $13,000,000
Additional Paid-in-Capital in excess of par value, Common Stock $117,000,000
Treasury Stock $(1,000,000)
Retained Earnings (less Cash Dividends Paid) $12,000,000 $11,000,000
Total Liabilities and Owner’s Equity $235,900,000

Income Statement

December 31, 2009 December 31, 2008
Sales Revenues $51,000,000 $10,300,000
Less: Sales Returns $(1,000,000) $(300,000)
Net Sales Revenues $50,000,000 $10,000,000
Less: Cost of Goods Sold $(9,000,000) $(4,000,000)
Gross Profit $41,000,000 $6,000,000
Operating Expenses:
Advertising and Sales $(26,000,000) $(3,000,000)
Depreciation $(160,000)
Salaries and Wages $(1,700,000) $(1,400,000)
Product Development $(4,000,000) $(1,200,000)
Merger and Acquisition Related Costs, including
 Amortization of Goodwill and Other Intangibles $(700,000) $0
Total Operating Expenses $(32,560,000)
Income from Continuing Operations Before Income Taxes $8,440,000
Less: Income Taxes at 35% $(2,954,000)
Income from Continuing Operations $5,486,000
Discontinued Operations:
Income from Operations of Discontinued Division
 (less applicable income taxes) $350,000
Loss on Disposal of Discontinued Division
 (less applicable income taxes) $(150,000)
Total Gain from Discontinued Operations $200,000
Extraordinary Items:
Loss from fire (less applicable income taxes) $(200,000)
Net Income $5,486,000
Divisional Revenues
Books $15,000,000 $7,000,000
Online gaming $25,000,000
Customized MP3/CD/DVD $10,000,000 $3,000,000
Customized MP3/CD/DVD Inventory at end of 2009 $8,000,000

Social Media Hinders Interpersonal Relationships, philosophy homework help

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Topic: Social Media Hinders Interpersonal Relationships. NO PLAGIARISM! WILL CHECK!! MUST HAVE ACCESS TO ASHFORD LIBRARY. This final assignment is designed to involve all of the main skills that you have learned during this course. In particular, your paper should demonstrate the ability to construct a deductively valid or inductively strong argument, clearly and accurately explain your reasoning, use high-quality academic sources to support the premises of your argument, fairly and honestly evaluate contrary arguments and objections, and identify fallacies and biases that occur within the arguments or objections presented.
You will continue to build on the arguments that you are presented in your previous two papers. In particular,, you will present a final improved version of your argument for your thesis that you begin for the Week One Assignment and fully address the objection that you developed for your Week Three Assignment. You will need to research a minimum of three scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library. (For further information about discovering and including scholarly research, take a look at the FindIt@AU Tutorial instructional resource.)
Write: in your paper
Explain the topic you are addressing and your position on it. Provide a preview of your paper and a statement of your thesis in your opening paragraph. [Approximately 100 words]
For help crafting a good thesis statement, go to the Ashford Writing Center.
Present your main argument for your thesis in standard form, with each premise and the conclusion on a separate line. Clearly indicate whether your argument is intended to be inductive or deductive. Follow up the presentation of your argument by clarifying the meaning of any premises that could use some explanation. [About 150 words]
If your argument is deductive, then it should be valid (in the strict logical sense of the word); if it is inductive, then it should be strong. Make sure to avoid committing logical fallacies within your argument (e.g., begging the question). Additionally, the premises should be true, to the best of your knowledge. If one of your premises has a pretty obvious counter-example, then you should either fix the argument so that it does not have this flaw, or later, in your paper (steps three through five) you should address the apparent counter-example (showing that it does not really refute the truth of your premise). Arguments that are not valid, not very strong, commit fallacies, or that have counter-examples that are not adequately addressed will not receive full credit.
Provide supporting evidence for the premises of your argument. [Approximately 350 words]
Pay special attention to those premises that could be seen as controversial. Evidence may include academic research sources, supporting arguments (arguments whose conclusions are premises of the main argument), or other ways of demonstrating the truth of those premises. This section should include at least one scholarly research source.
Explain a strong objection to your argument. [Approximately 250 words]
Study what people on the other side of this question think about your reasoning and present the best possible objection that someone could have to your argument. Do not commit the straw man fallacy here. Reference at least one scholarlyresearch source. See the “Practicing Effective Criticism” section of Chapter 9 of the course text for more information.
Defend your argument against the objection. [Approximately 200 words]
Once you have presented the objection, indicate clearly how you might respond to it. It is acceptable to admit that reasonable people might disagree with you or that there might be an area in which your argument could be further strengthened, but you should do your best to explain why your argument is sound or cogent despite the objections.
Provide an appropriate conclusion. [Approximately 75 words]
For guidance about how to develop a conclusion see the Introductions and Conclusion resource from the Ashford Writing Center. The Final Argument Paper
Must be 1,100 to 1,400 words in length, double-spaced, (not including the title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.
Must include a separate title page with the following:
Title of paper
Student’s name
Course name and number
Instructor’s name
Date submitted
Must use at least three scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.
Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center (for more information about how to create an APA reference list see the Ashford Writing Center APA References List webpage).
Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.