Advanced Business Writing Discussion

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  • Discuss: Examining a sample report from Victoria Business School
  • Discussion Topic: Please download the document, “How to Write a Business Report,” from Victoria University. The document is linked to in Content for Week 3.Please access page 26 of the document, “An Example of a Finished Report.”You will peruse the report, which covers pages 27-41.After reading the assigned pages from the Victoria Business School’s “Example of a Finished Report,” you will answer a series of questions. Your responses should run 1-2 sentences per question. These questions will help you prepare for your own business report.
    For your initial post in this forum (due Thursday):
    1. What problem is the author addressing?
    2. Where in the report does the author cite secondary research? You can mention one or two pages.
    3. What types of primary research the author cite in the report? You can give one or two examples.
    4. Consider your research-based report for this class. Specify your problem, your possible solution, and your ideas for your own primary research that you will conduct at your workplace. (Note that actual primary research is required for the final report & must be planned for and started early to complete it on time. If you will need to ask permission from a supervisor, consider this as well in planning your primary research.)

    Peer replies in this forum are optional this week.

  • Discuss: Understanding the Background Literature Review (Writing Assignment #2, the synthesis essay)
  • Discussion Topic To succeed on the Background Literature Review (WA#2), you need to know what it means to synthesize sources and how synthesizing is different from writing an annotated bibliography. In this discussion, you will write two short paragraphs explaining these two points. This activity reinforces the writing concepts demonstrated in the sample paper and video review of Tom Student’s paper available in the Week 3 content.For this discussion topic, please complete the following:
    1. Read through the sample essay for WA#2. In addition, watch the video on strategies for WA#2.
    2. In your own words, explain what it means to synthesize sources in a paper.
    3. How is synthesizing different from writing an annotated bibliography?

    For your post, please compose 1-2 well-developed paragraphs with quotes/citations to support your explanations.

Introducing Personal Research Narrative

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Discussion topic for week 4: Introducing Personal Research Narrative: the I-Chart

Throughout the course you’ve been asked to research, keep notes, and even create a reflective annotated bibliography on a particular research topic. Now that you have spent some time researching sources on your chosen topic (Mercenaries, [ – Topic– Government vs. Private Troops]), it is a good time to reflect and write on the topic itself. Throughout this process, your job will be to read and consider the material that you gather, to spend time writing about it, and reflecting on it. Eventually, in the Personal Research Narrative, your job will be to tell the story of your research journey. It will include research materials, cited, that you reflected and wrote about. It will talk about wrong ideas that you may have had, and right ideas that may have expanded.

In this discussion topic, you will write a reflection using the I-Chart on the research topic that you’ve chosen (Mercenaries). This discussion topic is designed to help you continue to develop material for the Personal Research Narrative.

1. Look over the notes that you have taken on your research topic.

2. Using the I-Chart, reflect on the topic that you have chosen to research.

3. Fill out the I-Chart.

4.Please write a paragraph that reflects on the topic that you’ve chosen. Post your paragraph and your I-Chart in the the discussion. Please provide feedback to your peers.

Filkins, Scott. (2015). I-Search Chart. Inquiry Based Learning Strategy Guides. National Council of Teachers of English. Retrieved from: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/…

Online Child Sexual Exploitation Paper

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This is 600-700 words paper. The topic is child sexual exploitation online. Which means you only need to force on internet organised child sexual exploitation. The file is a resource of internet organised crime which include child sexual exploitation online. You must use this file as one of references. Please read that part. You should also use other references. Here is the structure. You only need include three parts. First : Literature Review/Background This may include definition of key terms or concepts, discussion of relevant law, policy or practices, including providing a summary of relevant primary sources (e.g. legislation, court judgments and government policy documents) and secondary sources (e.g. academic articles). It may be that your research topic will not require any summary of primary sources and will rely entirely on secondary sources. Second one is Identification of Problems and Issues : The use of subheadings may help to explain specific issues and problems. Third one: This part will require you to argue in a logical manner using the methodology that you have adopted to answer the research question. You do n’t need to include other parts like: cover page, summary. Just is three parts. And be academic. Thank you.

IT Project Management – week 1

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Search the Internet for the terms project management, project management careers, project portfolio management, and IT project management. Write down the number of hits that you receive for each of these phrases. Find at least three Web sites that provide interesting information on one of the topics. Write a paper summarizing key information about these three Web sites as well as the Project Management Institute’s Web site (www.pmi.org). Based on your findings, how can organizations justify investing in enterprise project management for IT projects?

Your paper should be 3-4 pages long, well-written and include a title page and reference page in addition to the body of your paper. Preface the document with a 1-page statement that summarizes and explains the purpose of your CT. Cite the articles you reference using APA Requirements. 

Psychology Research Article Forensic Psychology Research Homework Help

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  • Review the article, “How to Read a Research Article.” Pay particular attention to the step-by-step description and explanation of areas found in most research.
  • Review Chapter 4 in your course text, Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences. Focus on how conceptual ideas are converted into numbers, measured, and reported.
  • Review Appendix B in your course text, Research Methods for the Behavioral Sciences. Pay close attention to how statistical concepts and analyses are used in research.
  • Select two statistical concepts you believe are the most important to psychological research, two statistical concepts that you find most interesting, and two statistical concepts you find the most difficult to understand.
  • Think about why you find each of these statistical concepts to be most important, most interesting, and most difficult, respectively.

With these thoughts in mind:

Post by Day 4 a brief description of two statistical concepts that you think are most important to psychological research and explain why you think they are important. Then, briefly describe two different statistical concepts that you find most interesting and explain why you find them interesting. Finally, briefly describe, as best you can, two statistical concepts that are most difficult for you to understand and explain your difficulty in understanding them.

Designing interactions Discussion

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Read the forward to Designing Interactions, available in the Files section on Canvas (here: DesigningInteractions_foreword.pdf). This class will be both about how to design and build interactions. We’ll begin with designing. Read the forward.

Next, we’ll tie these two ideas together: The Deep Dive and Interaction Design.

Read chapter ten from Designing Interactions (also available in Files and here: DesigningInteractions_10.pdf). You may skim pages pages 642-667, but pay careful attention to pages 667-681. You may skip after 681 for now.

Once you’ve read the forward and chapter ten, reply to this post with three things that stood out to you. Specifically, what connections do you see between The Deep Dive and Interaction Design embodied in this reading?

Relationship Between Sleep and Cell Phone Addiction Paper

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Topic: The relationship between sleep and cell phone addiction.

Rationale:As sleep decreases cellphone addiction increases

Write a hypothesis and write a one page rationale for it. Use PRIMARY SOURCE LITERATURE as your reference.

And write your introduction.

APA FORMAT 2-3 pages

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Powerpoint 1 slide

•State your hypothesis

•Present the descriptive statistics on the two variables in your hypothesis

•Present the results of the inferential statistic used to test your hypothesis in APA format.

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Intro to communciation

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For our Week 6 Virtual Field Trip, go to TED.com (Technology, Entertainment, Design – a nonprofit organization devoted to “Ideas Worth Spreading”) and watch the following talk by Sherry Turkle about how technology is affecting the way we communicate. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together 

Consider the role technology plays in the way you communicate and your expectations for connection with others. Do you agree with Turkle’s point of view? Are there parts of her message that resonate with you?

Click around TED.com and see if there are other “talks” that may challenge or inspire you.
This field trip is for your enrichment and will not be graded.

​Stage 3: System Design Specification

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Stage 3: System Design Specification

Before you begin this assignment, be sure you have read the Case Study and all assignments for this class, especially Stage 4: Final System Report. The feedback you received on your Stage 1 and Stage 2 assignments should be reviewed and used as you proceed with Stage 3.

Purpose of this Assignment

This assignment gives you the opportunity to apply a systematic approach to translate requirements into a high-level logical system design. This assignment specifically addresses the following course outcomes to enable you to:

apply a systematic approach to translate requirements into an executable systems design

effectively communicate with stakeholders to determine, manage, and document business requirements throughout the SDLC

Assignment

The results of your systems analysis and design work in this class will be documented in a Final System Report. The purpose of the Report is to inform management of your system proposal and gain approval to proceed with the project. The Report will be developed and submitted in stages, which will be compiled at the end of class into the Final System Report. Review the outline of the Final System Report in the Stage 4 Assignment description. Note that it contains the analysis of the problem(s) and requirements, and proposes what kind of a system solution is needed. It does not propose a specific solution, but it does recommend why and how the organization should acquire the solution.

Following the Requirements Specification (Stage 2 assignment), the next step is to develop the System Design Specification. The System Design Specification builds on the Requirements Specification to illustrate how the files/database(s) will be laid out, how the output (forms, reports, and/or screens) and input (forms and/or screens) should be designed. As you develop this assignment, you should refer to your Stage 2 Requirements Specification (and the feedback you received) and use the inputs and outputs you listed to create the input and output layouts and the file/database design.

All of the information you need to complete the projects in this class is not provided in the case study. In the discussion area of the classroom, there is a discussion titled “Case Study Interview Questions” where you can pose questions about the case study, as if you were interviewing the people in the case study organization. Any information that you need that is not included in the case study should be asked about in this discussion. Responses from the faculty member on behalf of the case study organization will be available for everyone in the class.

Use the case study and the Case Study Interview Questions discussion, along with your Stage 2 Requirements Specification (including the feedback received), and resources below, to create a System Design Specification in the format shown below. Include your corrected Stage 2 Requirements Specifications as the first part of this assignment. Approximate lengths for each section of the Systems Design Specification are provided as a guideline; be sure to provide all pertinent information. The sources of explanatory materials can be found in the Week 5 Content readings.

Requirements Specification

Include your Requirements Specification from Stage 2, with corrections from the feedback included. This will establish the context for your System Design Specification to follow.

System Design Specification

I.Introduction. Provide an appropriate introduction to this document. (one paragraph)

II.Output Layout. Begin with the three outputs listed in your Requirements Specification. For each of them, create a diagram or table illustrating what the output would look like. (use a short paragraph to introduce this section and each diagram, table or illustration should use about ½ of a page)

A.Output Layout #1.

B.Output Layout #2.

C.Output Layout #3.

III.Input Layout. Using the data elements listed in your Requirements Specification, create a diagram or table illustrating what the input screen would look like for each of the three sets of input. (use a short paragraph to introduce this section and each diagram, table or illustration should use about ½ of a page)

A.Input Layout #1.

B.Input Layout #2.

C.Input Layout #3.

IV.File/database Design ERDs. For each of the three sets of outputs and inputs, create an Entity Relationship Diagram showing how the data elements are related to each other [see an explanation at http://www.cs.uregina.ca/Links/class-info/215/erd/,and use the formatting specified in the example]. Depending on the inputs and outputs identified, there may be some overlap of the data elements in the ERDs; a separate ERD should be developed for each pair of inputs/outputs. (use a short paragraph to introduce this section, and each ERD should be on one page)

A.File/database Design ERD #1.

B.File/database Design ERD #2.

C.File/database Design ERD #3.