Locating Web Pages

This week you’ll continue building your annotated bibliography by locating two web pages that are related to your research question and writing APA references and annotations for them. By now, your annotated bibliography has started taking shape and you’ll just be adding to the work that you did last week.

Before you begin, be sure to read Module 3 in your textbook and Google’s All Tips & Tricks. It can often be difficult to locate all of the information that you need to evaluate the credibility and reliability of web pages. Watch Web Pages: Determining Authority and Web Pages: Determining Currency to help you.

To get started, locate the keywords that you developed last week. You will use these keywords to help you find two websites that are related to your research question. For this assignment, you will use a search engine like Google, Bing, or Duck Duck Go, not the Ashford Library databases to find your sources.

After you have your web pages, you are ready to create the APA references and annotations for your sources in the Locating Web Pages template. When writing your APA references for your sources, you can refer to the Ashford Writing Center’s Common APA Reference and Citation Models for guidance.

Finally, copy and paste the references and annotations for your two scholarly journal articles from week 3 into your paper. Check your instructor’s feedback to see if there any corrections that you need to make. If you are not sure how to see your instructor’s feedback, this HelpNow! video will show you. Be sure to make any changes or corrections that your instructor has indicated. You can also look at the sample annotated bibliography for guidance.

As you build your annotated bibliography in weeks Three, Four, and Five, you are encouraged to submit your work to the Ashford Writing Center for feedback. The Writing Center staff can help you identify formatting, grammar, and other common writing issues in your work and give you ideas for ways to fix them. The Writing Center staff is available by email or by chat.

Choose one of the theorists you have studied this term. (Albert Bandura, Julian Rotter, Walter Michael, Hans Eysenck, Gordon Allport, Raymond Cattell, B.F. Skinner, Rollo May, Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers, Carl Jung, Karen Horney, Erik Erikson, Sigmund Freud, or Alfred Adler)

Do the following:

1. Describe the major life events of the theorist that you feel influenced his or her personality development.
2. Describe the cultural influences that had an influence on the chosen theorist’s personality development.
3. Analyze this person from Freud’s psychoanalytic perspective.
4. Analyze this person from two other theoretical perspectives studied in this course, except for the trait perspective.
5. Summarize and present your critical opinion about how well (or not) these theories explain the person.

Write a 5–7-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources

 Begin by selecting an e-commerce out on the Internet.. Then, draft a two-page
essay that explains how the e-commerce’s strategy has been influenced by the four infrastructures: 

 Layer 1: network technology substrates,

 Layer 2: transport services and representation standards,

 Layer 3: middleware services, and

 Layer 4: applications.

If you are not sure about the strategy that the e-commerce actually used, then you can make logical estimations or
recommendations for how your strategy, for the selected company, would be influenced by the four infrastructures. As
part of your explanation, be sure to include how each layer is dependent upon other layers.
There is no need to prepare a title page nor a references page; however, be sure to use Times New Roman, 12-point font,
double-spacing, and one-inch margins. 

Construct a draft proposal for your project, and integrate it with the organizational balanced scorecard model. There is no page limit for this assessment but must cover the topic thorough and according to the scoring rubric

GRADING RUBRIC MUST BE FOLLOWED

Preparation

Expand upon your peer-reviewed or authoritative sources from Assessment 1 that substantiate your approach and method for the data review, such as accrediting body standards, accounting principles, federal laws, or Medicare conditions of participation.

Note: While an annotated bibliography is not a part of the graded assessment, you will need to integrate your sources into the proposal.

Review the balanced scorecard model. You will construct a balanced scorecard table in this assessment to convey the value of your project to the organization.

Requirements

Draft a proposal for your data review project. Use the Data Review Project Proposal Template, linked in the Resources of this unit.

Integrate faculty feedback on your proposal, prior to sharing it with the prospective client.

Supporting Evidence

Add a minimum of five relevant, authoritative sources, cited within the outline, different than the original citations from Assessment 1. Limit commercial website references to no more than two entries. Format your citations and references using APA style.

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your proposal addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Data Review Project Proposal Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

• Choose a framework appropriate for examining the type of data under investigation. Look at the following for examples and explain the basis for your choice.
  • For a compliance project, use the regulations.
  • For an accrediting assessment, use the standards and site survey criteria.
  • For the implementation of a new service line, consider using the balanced scorecard framework.
• Explain how a project addresses and adds value to each of the four areas of an organizational balanced scorecard. (The four areas being, business operations, finance, customer service, and organizational learning and growth.)
  • Create a balanced scorecard table similar to the one presented in the Balanced Scorecard Example, linked in the Resources of this unit.
  • Consider a strategic, systems perspective as you contemplate value to the organization and how the project aligns with the organizational mission, vision, and strategy.
  • Find evidence to support your assertions and conclusions.
  • Determine what additional information would strengthen your value proposition.
• Develop proposed structures (for example, pie chart, graph, spreadsheet, process map) for the visual display of summarized raw data.
  • Reflect on what type of visual display structure will best fit your selected topic. Although you are just beginning to collect data, you will want to consider how to display it.
  • Ensure that your data displays are clear and easily interpreted.
  • Ensure that the proposed title includes the focus of the data, units of measurement, the organization’s name, and time frame.
• Combine clear, coherent, and original writing, in APA style, with relevant and credible evidence from the scholarly and professional literature.
  • Apply correct APA formatting to your source citations.
  • Consider how or why a particular piece of evidence supports your main points, claims, or conclusions.
  • Make sure your supporting evidence is clear and explicit.

RESOURCES:

Balanced Scorecard

The articles in this Balanced scorecard section provide useful and professionally relevant information about the balanced scorecard model which may help you in drafting your project proposal in this assessment.

• Behrouzi, F., Shaharoun, A. M., & Ma’aram, A. (2014). Applications of the balanced scorecard for strategic management and performance measurement in the health sector. Australian Health Review, 38(2), 208–217.
• Kaplan, R. S., & Norton D. P. (1992). The balanced scorecard: Measures that drive performance. Harvard Business Review, 70(1), 71–79.
• Kaplan, R. S., & Norton D. P. (1996). Using the balanced scorecard as a strategic management system. Harvard Business Review, 74(1), 75–85.
• Kaplan, R. S., & Norton, D. P. (2004). Measuring the strategic readiness of intangible assets. Harvard Business Review, 82(2), 52–63.

Project and Topic Examples

This article examines the role of IT with regard to patient flow in hospitals and the implications for efficiency and performance.

• Devaraj, S., Ow, T. T., & Kohli, R. (2013). Examining the impact of information technology and patient flow on healthcare performance: A theory of swift and even flow (TSEF) perspective. Journal of Operations Management, 31(4), 181–192.

This article defines how competent health care providers can improve health care communication, access, and outcomes, and also encourage patients to participate more fully in their own care.

• Brusin, J. H. (2012). How cultural competency can help reduce health disparities. Radiologic Technology, 84(2), 129–147.

This article aids providers in a better understanding of the patient’s perspective on health care quality within the context of data analytics.

• Russell, R. S., Johnson, D. M., & White, S. W. (2015). Patient perceptions of quality: Analyzing patient satisfaction surveys. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 35(8), 1158–1181.

Performance Measurement

This article defines a framework in which information can be generated for use in reporting and informing the public about health care quality.

• van den Heuvel, J., Niemeijer, G. C., & Does, R. J. M. M. (2013). Measuring healthcare quality: The challenges. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 26(3), 269–278.

This article examines different types of organizational activities related to performance measurement and how they lead to improvements.

• Elg, M., Palmberg Broryd, K., & Kollberg, B. (2013). Performance measurement to drive improvements in healthcare practice. International Journal of Operations & Production Management, 33(11/12), 1623–1651.

Primary Research and Authoritative Sources

This Capella resource is helps to identify original research and contains links to different types of research.

• Primary Research.

This Capella resource contains information on finding peer-reviewed sources, improving your topic, acquiring research skills and evaluating source quality.

• Library Research and Information Literacy Skills.

Discusses advanced research techniques which will be helpful in finding and citing relevant, authoritative sources.??

• Bibliography Mining and Cited Reference Searching.

RefWorks is a Capella resource research management tool that helps you collect, organize, and store citations from library databases and other resources.

• RefWorks.

Option #1: Proprietary Fund

Provide complete answers to the following two problems:

1. Describe the differences in cash flow statements required by GASB standards when compared with cash flow statements required by FASB standards.
2. The Village of Watkins Glenn operated an educational program for at-risk middle school children. Businesses and nonprofit organizations sponsor the children and pay the registration fee.
   1. The following cash receipts were collected:
      1. Registration 310,000
      2. Cash loan from bank 65,000
   2. The following cash disbursements were made:
      1. Payroll taxes 30,600
      2. Labor 102,800
      3. Insurance 12,400
      4. Interest 3.050
      5. Purchase school bus 62,000.

Required:

• Prepare the journal entries to record revenues and disbursements if the city treats the program as an enterprise fund
• Prepare the journal entries to record revenues and disbursements if the city treats the program as a special revenue fund.

In your analysis, include the following:

• An introduction
• Requirements 1 – 2
• Conclusion.

Paper Requirements:

• Submit your responses to the questions in a one- to two-page document in MSWord. Label each question clearly. For computations, please include them in a table.
• For written answers, please make sure your responses are well written.
• Follow the CSU-Global Guide to Writing & APA Requirements (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..
• The required number of pages for the assignment does not include the title page and references page.