Journalistic vs. Academic Writing: Reflection

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Due Dates:

Sunday 4/7

Directions:

Last week, you read journalistic articles about food waste, both of which came from reliable and well-known news sources (Aubrey and Royte). Remember that journalistic articles are mainstreamed, meaning they are meant for the general public. This week you read a peer reviewed academic article (Household Food Waste). Unlike journalistic articles, academic journals are written for experts within certain fields.

Looking closely at both, answer the following questions.

1.What are some of the similarities or differences between the articles? These can do with context, evidence or examples, tone, vocabulary, etc?

2. Who do you think the targeted audience is for each article?

3. What do you notice about the sources each article uses? Citations? Which one seems more credible, or does it depend on the circumstances?

Question # 1

In a 250-300 word response, analyze how the use of technology has impacted organizational communication both positively and negatively. How has technology impacted the verbal and nonverbal cues used in interpreting messages? Provide examples to support your position. Use at least one resource to support your key points. Offer some additional ideas to others in this class by responding to at least two of your fellow students’ posts.
As an option, students are encouraged to utilize a form of communication technology within this discussion. Consider recording video messages instead of the traditional text, both for your initial discussion posting as well as responses to other students. Go to Eyejot.com, an easy-to-use, free online software that allows you to create video and copy and paste links to share with others. Navigate to: http://www.eyejot.com/about.html, register by clicking on “Join Now” at the top of the screen, record, then copy and paste the link to your video into your discussions.

System Requirements:

• Modern web browser (IE, Safari, Firefox, Netscape, Opera)
• Adobe Flash 9
• You need to install/update Flash Player. Get it here. 
• A webcam
• A microphone (if your webcam doesn’t have one built-in) 

Question # 2

 
  In a 250-300 word response, describe a work report that you are required (or have been required) to complete on a regular basis. How would you present the information related to this report in a visual manner? Would a visual presentation enhance its effectiveness? Why or why not? Use at least one resource to support your key points. Respond to at least two of your fellow students’ posts.

Please use only one source

Read the article and write a 250-word paper – double spaced, 1” margins, Times New Roman font with only your name in the top left or right hand corner of the document. This should be about three well-developed paragraphs. You will receive full or partial credit based on the thought you put into this paper and the thoroughness of the paper. Remember this is a professional development course – so you should have begun thinking about being that professional. You may look to speakers that we have had in class (like nonprofits such as Miracle League Northshore or First Tee of Greater New Orleans) to help you write this paper if you can remember some of the things those speakers said.

1. Give me your thoughts and impressions about characteristics #5 and #6. Provide examples if you can.

2. Also, take one of the other characteristics and tell me why that one is important (or stood out) to you. I have posted the link to the online article below https://www.aiesec.in/characteristics-every-great-volunteer-common/

One of the very first cases that caught Freud’s attention when he was starting to develop his psychoanalytic theory was that of Anna O, a patient of fellow psychiatrist Josef Breuer. Although Freud did not directly treat her, he did thoroughly analyze her case as he was fascinated by the fact that her hysteria was “cured” by Breuer. It is her case that he believes was the beginning of the psychoanalytic approach.

Through your analysis of this case, you will not only look deeper into Freud’s psychoanalytic theory but also see how Jung’s neo-psychoanalytic theory compares and contrasts with Freud’s theory.

Review the following:

The Case of Anna O. One of the first cases that inspired Freud in the development of what would eventually become the Psychoanalytic Theory was the case of Anna O. Anna O. was actually a patient of one of Freud’s colleagues Josef Breuer. Using Breuer’s case notes, Freud was able to analyze the key facts of Anna O’s case. Anna O. first developed her symptoms while she was taking care of her very ill father with whom she was extremely close. Some of her initial symptoms were loss of appetite to the extent of not eating, weakness, anemia, and development a severe nervous cough. Eventually she developed a severe optic headache and lost the ability to move her head, which then progressed into paralysis of both arms. Her symptoms were not solely physical as she would vacillate between a normal, mental state and a manic-type state in which she would become extremely agitated. There was even a notation of a time for which she hallucinated that the ribbons in her hair were snakes. Toward the end of her father’s life she stopped speaking her native language of German and instead only spoke in English. A little over a year after she began taking care of her father he passed away. After his passing her symptoms grew to affect her vision, a loss of ability to focus her attention, more extreme hallucinations, and a number of suicidal attempts (Hurst, 1982).

Both Freud and Jung would acknowledge that unconscious processes are at work in this woman’s problems. However, they would come to different conclusions about the origin of these problems and the method by which she should be treated.

Research Freud’s and Jung’s theories of personality using your textbook, the Internet, and the Argosy University online library resources. Based on your research, respond to the following:

• Compare and contrast Freud’s view of the unconscious with Jung’s view and apply this case example in your explanations.
• On what specific points would they agree and disagree regarding the purpose and manifestation of the unconscious in the case of Anna?
• How might they each approach the treatment of Anna? What might be those specific interventions? How might Anna experience these interventions considering her history?

Write a 2–3-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M2_A3.doc.

Hurst, L. C. (1982). What was wrong with Anna O? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,75(2), 129–131.

By Wednesday, May 21, 2014, deliver your assignment to the M2: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Compared and contrasted Freud’s view of the unconscious with Jung’s view and applied Anna’s example in explanations.	32
Identified points of agreement and disagreement between the two theorists regarding the purpose and manifestation of the unconscious with examples from the case study.	28
Analyzed how Freud and Jung would approach Anna’s treatment with specific interventions and discussed how these would affect Anna.	20
Wrote in a clear, concise, and organized manner; demonstrated ethical scholarship in accurate representation and attribution of sources; displayed accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation.	20
Total:	100

Part 1

Information Requirements Determination (IRD) Project Component

Based on your consulting company’s initial work in discovering the business needs of Mid-Century Modern Décor Unlimited (MCMDU), you now have the following additional information about your client company’s processes that will need to be supported by the planned inventory information system:

1. Addition of new item to inventory system: the marketing/sales staff, in cooperation with the manufacturing staff, transmits the basic information on new products to be added to inventory management on a paper form brought to the inventory management office. This form must contain approval signatures of the Vice President for Operations and the Vice President for Sales. Upon receipt of a correct form (as determined by the Inventory Management staff), the inventory information for the new item is added to the appropriate Microsoft Excel 2010 workbook(s).
2. Recurring inventory report: the inventory is reported on a monthly basis in printed form and distributed through interoffice mail to the owner, vice presidents, and managers of the manufacturing and marketing/sales departments.
3. Ad-hoc inventory reports: an ad-hoc report on one or more inventory items may be requested by the owner, vice presidents, and managers of the manufacturing and marketing/sales departments. These requests must be created on a “Special Report Request” paper form brought to the inventory management office. The inventory management staff attempts to produce these reports within two business days of the time of the request.
4. The inventory management staff will also create an ad-hoc report in printed form upon phone request from either the owner or the company vice presidents. There is not a special form for this request: the inventory management will jot the specifications for the needed report down on paper when called by these individuals with a request. The inventory management staff attempts to produce these reports within one business day of the time of the request.
5. The inventory management staff maintains the templates for inventory information from the e-commerce retailer customers within a file folder on a hard drive on the PC computer system in the Inventory Management office. Recall from the Background Information section that e-commerce retailers will generally require that their company-specific templates be used when transmitting inventory-related information such as complete product descriptions. Once the templates are populated with the requested information, the Inventory Management staff can transmit that information to the e-commerce retailers by logging in through the retailer’s extranet portal for MDU.

The Tasks:

Obviously, you will be facing a challenge in effectively determining systems requirements for this project. Based on the information provided in Chapter 6 of the course textbook and web-based research, your team’s task here is to select an overall strategy for determining system requirements. In addition, you have decided to develop an interview process with various employees of the company to assist in determining the information requirements needed to support the development of a system that meets the scope of the planned system. Create this deliverable in a Microsoft Word document.

Your deliverable for this component of the team project is to include the following components:

1. A project scope statement: see the associated definition/description on page 199 of the course textbook and the example portrayed in Figure 5-10 on page 134 of the course textbook.
2. An analysis of systems requirements determination strategies (review Chapter 6) in order to select the optimal strategy for this specific information systems project for MDU. This component must contain an identification and discussion of the potential strategies followed by your well justified recommendation for proposing the optimal strategy for information requirements determination (IRD) for the planned system. Be aware that a single method of IRD is almost never adequate to gather the needed information for a systems development project.
3. An interview plan as detailed in interview outlines followed by specific questions (you should use both close-ended and open-ended questions) that you plan to ask in initial interviews with (1) Alexis Harrison, the company owner and (2) company employees (specify which ones). Note that you may also choose to employ additional interviewing methods (see Chapter 6) for obtaining this type of information.

Required Format:

The required format of this component is five clearly labeled sections:

1. An introduction of the background and intended purpose of the specified tasks (see above section)
2. The Project Scope Statement
3. The systems requirements determination strategy (this may be some combination of two or more strategies identified and discussed in Chapter 6)
4. The interview designs, with the target for each interview design clearly indicated
5. A summary/conclusions section

APA format is not required for this component. Submit your completed work for Part 1 in a single Microsoft Word document or Adobe PDF file. Only the designated team leader for this project component is to submit a copy of the team’s completed work.

Part 2

Once you have completed the Information Requirements Determination (IRD) component (see Part 1 above) as a team, the next step is to work on the second component, which is the creation of a Scope Statement and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS, see your textbook for definition, discussion, and example) to guide a project team in accomplishing the IRD tasks. For the WBS, you would identify a descriptive task name, duration in days), start and finish dates, predecessors (a task or tasks that must be completed before this task can be started), and the resources (in this case, one or more of your team members). Once you have done this, enter your WBS in a Microsoft Project 2013 or Microsoft Project 2016 file (free downloads of this software product are available from your Microsoft Imagine account) and submit your completed work in this file to this assignment link. Here is additional information and other requirements is addition to those stated above:

1. Build your WBS in the MS Project Gantt Chart view.
2. Enter Summary tasks to logically group your task list (see Figure 3-10 on page 58).
3. Enter Milestone tasks (a task with a 0 duration) to indicate the completion of major groups of tasks (for example, “Interviews Complete”).
4. Your team members should be entered as Resources (one or more Resources must be identified for every task except Summary and Milestone tasks.

You can download a free copy of Microsoft Project 2013 or Microsoft Project 2016 from your Microsoft Imagine account previously established earlier in the semester. A free Microsoft “Learn Project 2013 Tutorial” app is available on this site (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

Required Format:

The required format of the Part 2 component of this project as follows:

1. In a Microsoft Project file, build your WBS in Gantt Chart view..
2. Be sure to include summary tasks, milestone tasks (tasks with a zero time duration), and resources for each task producing a deliverable (summery taks and milestone tasks do not produce deliverables).

Submit this component of your completed work for Part 2 in a single Microsoft Project file. The team member designated as team leader for this assignment is to submit a copy of the final product.