...CheckPoint: Effective Business Communication COM 140 CheckPoint: Creating Effective Documents COM 140 CheckPoint: Persuasive Memo COM 140 CheckPoint: Effective Presentations COM 140 CheckPoint: Different Kinds of Messages COM 140 Job-Application Letter COM 140 week one 1 Discussion Question 1 COM 140 week one 1 Discussion Question 2 COM 140 week three 3 Discussion Question 1 COM 140 week three 3 Discussion Question 2 COM 140 week five 5 Discussion Question 1 COM 140 week five 5 Discussion Question 2 COM 140 week seven 7 Discussion Question 1 COM 140 week seven 7 Discussion Question 2 COM 140 CheckPoint: Different Kinds of Messages COM 140 CheckPoint: Comprehensive Grammar CheckPoint- Appendix F Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of COM 140 ENTIRE COURSE in order to ace their studies. COM 140 ENTIRE COURSE To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/com-140-entire-course/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM COM 140 ENTIRE COURSE COM 140 Assignment: Negative Messages COM 140 CheckPoint: Job-Search Management COM 140 Capstone Discussion Question COM 140 Assignment: Résumé COM 140 CheckPoint: Characteristics of Interpersonal Communication COM 140 CheckPoint: Effective Business Communication COM 140 CheckPoint: Creating Effective Documents COM 140 CheckPoint: Persuasive Memo COM 140 CheckPoint: Effective Presentations COM 140 CheckPoint: Different Kinds of Messages...
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...interpersonal and business communication? Provide specific examples to support your answer. · Consider your own experience as you answer this question. If you have not worked in a business environment, you may ask a friend, parent, or other adult about his or her experiences. COM 140 Week 3 DQ 2 Post your response to the following: What qualities make any form of written communication effective? Which qualities do you already include in your writing? How can you incorporate additional effective elements into your written communication? COM 140 Week 5 DQ 1 Post your response to the following: Recall a situation in which someone was trying to persuade you. How effective was the argument? What could have made the argument more persuasive? COM 140 Week 5 DQ 2...
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...COURSE DESCRIPTION This course focuses on communication for managers and the activities they perform. The management topics of communication strategy, communication technology, effective business writing (including memos, letters, and analytical reports), nonverbal communication, and formal oral presentations will be emphasized. The course will focus primarily on written communication. Several practical writing assignments will be given and each student will be required to give an oral presentation using PowerPoint presentation software. COURSE TEXTBOOK Geraldine Hynes, MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND APPLICATIONS, 5th edition, McGraw-Hill Irwin Publishers, 2011. To cite your secondary sources accurately for the report, you must either purchase an APA Reference Style book or download my handout (on Blackboard) describing and illustrating the APA Reference Style. 882-E Scantron sheets are needed for exams. COURSE OBJECTIVES 1. To understand that effective management is dependent on excellent communication skills. 2. To learn the communication skills and activities that are required for managers at all levels of management. 3. To learn the correct strategy in writing business memos and letters. 4. To learn how to conduct effective secondary research. 5. To learn how to organize and write an analytical business report following effective report writing principles. 6. To improve your oral presentation...
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...America” is the title that I have chosen for my persuasive essay. I feel that being a single mother myself I can relate to them on the same ground as I am living a life walking in the same shoes as them. “With great power comes great responsibility” is a well known line from the movie Spider man. COM 120 Week 1 Capital Letters 103 1. – At the turn of a new century and a new Millennium, many people are reflecting on the historical changes that have taken place during the past hundred years. – At the turn of a new century and a new millennium, many people are reflecting on the historical changes that have taken place during the past hundred years. 2. – In the late 1990s, Americans began making lists reflecting their choices of the greatest Events, Literature, People, and Films of the century. – In the late 1990s, Americans began making lists reflecting their choices of the greatest events, literature, people, and films of the century. 3. – Most Americans would agree that the two World Wars shaped the twentieth century and this country’s role in it. – Most Americans would agree that the two world wars shaped the twentieth century and this country’s role in it. COM 120 Week 1 Comma Splices and Fused Sentences 562 1. Most people are familiar with chain letters, this type of correspondence requires a person to copy a letter and send it on to five or more friends. – run-on sentence – comma splice – correct 2. Chain letters, which have existed for years, usually promise...
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...JOINT FIELD PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMMUNICATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Your major and final project for both Organizational Behavior and Management Communication will be a field-based project pursued by your group, involving field research (interviews, focus groups, data collection, etc.), and culminating in a formal report and an oral presentation (by the team) to your client (optional) and your classmates and professors. Objectives The objectives of this assignment are: 1. To provide you the opportunity to apply the theory and processes you are learning to actual practice, with the structure and guidance provided by your professors, and with the support of your group and other classmates. 2. To provide you with substantive, real-world material on which you will base a final report that will include your problem or issue identification, findings and recommendations for change, including or followed by your theoretical defense of the merit of your recommendations (see below); and a final oral presentation based on the report. Description of Field Project Working in your groups, decide on a project or problem area in some organization to which you believe you can gain entrance (probably one of your own). The project or problem must be one that reflects your expertise as a behavioral consultant, and one that has a communication dimension. Since most matters of socio-technical systems and design are characterized as well by human communication difficulties...
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...Persuasive Letter NUR/405 2012 Diane Schlicke Persuasive Letter October 25, 2012 Brunilda Price Coordinator of Community Services Community Health Assessment and Planning Ocean County Department of Health175 Sunset Avenue Toms River, N.J. 08754 Ms. Price, I am a Registered Nurse pursuing my Bachelor’s degree in nursing through University of Phoenix. The class focuses on healthy communities, theory, and practice. One assignment for the class is to assess a family and conduct a windshield survey and community health nursing reflection in the community that the family resides. Working with the members of the family and the relationship that family has with the community and how they interrelate with each other is very informative. The Community Health Planning unit of the Ocean County Department of Health is the agency to contact knowing the division assesses current health conditions, obtains health statistics, and collects data regarding health indicators, resource for residents and community-based organizations, and identifies opportunities for improvement in health care. Identifying a community problem of childhood obesity that will adversely affect a toddler in the family that I am affiliated has heightened my interest to prevent the devastating outcomes associated with obesity (Ocean County Department of Health, 2012). Preventing lifelong disease process is a goal for the welfare of the community population. Addressing the issue of healthy food...
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...St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology COM200 – Written Communication in the Workplace ------------------------------------------------- Writing Assignment 2 – Proposal Project Purpose By completing this assignment, students will learn to prepare a short proposal for an idea, product, or service. The assignment demonstrates the necessary components of short proposals and allows practice of persuasive writing techniques. Task In this project, you will prepare a short proposal. The proposal will contain three main sections: an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. Suggestions for the content for each of the major sections of your proposal are provided at the end of these instructions. Project Details Prepare a proposal for an idea, product, or service. Your proposal will be delivered to a decision maker. Your proposal must be 500-800 words. Examples of proposals written by past students include: * A recycling proposal for a Tim Hortons store, written by an employee * A new process for storing and picking parts for an auto parts manufacturer, written by a line worker * A proposal for a summer floor hockey league for the College, written by a student * A proposal for contributing left over restaurant food to the Downtown Mission, written by a Mission volunteer * A proposal to build a maintenance shed for a church, written by a parishioner * A proposal to perform basic landscaping duties for a business, written by a student looking for...
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...QUT | Case Study 4: Market Efficiency | Bill Miller and Value Trust | | Name: Huey Ngu Student ID: 08324093Tutor Name: David FairDate: 1 November 2013 | Words: 1097 | Contents Introduction 2 Past and current performance of Value Trust 2 Investment strategy of Bill Miller 3 Efficient Market Hypothesis 3 Bill Miller’s letter to shareholders 4 Changes in Chief Investment Officer (CIO) 4 Recommendation and Conclusion 4 Reference 6 Appendices 8 Appendix A: Data of LMVTX, S&P 500, and 30 years bond 8 Appendix B: Alpha and Beta between 1991 and 2013 9 Appendix C: Alpha and Beta between 1991 and 2005 9 Appendix D: Alpha and Beta between 2006 and 2013 9 Introduction Bill Miller is known as famous fund manager that hold the record of beating benchmark index for 15 years in a row. However, his poor performance after 2005 was the reason that the investors run away from his fund. Hence, arguments of whether Bill Miller’s previous performances involve luck or skills appear. Furthermore, this report will also discuss whether investors should invest in Bill Miller’s Value Trust. Past and current performance of Value Trust Figure [ 1 ]: LMVTX VS S&P500 (Morningstar Principia , 2013) Bill Miller had made an achievement of longest streak performance of beating the market. Refer to figure 1, it had showed that Bill Miller’s Value Trust had consistently beat the benchmark index of Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) between 1991 and...
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...Apple v. Proview Source: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_proviews_ipad_stance_in_china_misleading/ Apple v. Proview Dispute Resolution Project Instructions & Preparation Aide This set of instructions is intended to (i) help you understand what is expected of your group and you for the dispute resolution assignment, (ii) more clearly explain how you and your group will be assessed for the dispute resolution assignment, and (iii) provide you with some practical tips to help you prepare. Assignment Scenario: A few years back, Apple and Proview had a legal dispute concerning the ownership of the “IPAD” trademark in China. There were multiple lawsuits, with Apple winning some and Proview winning others. In the end, they settled outside of court for a reported US$60,000,000. In this assignment we are going to pretend that Apple failed to pay the US$60 million to Proview, and that the two sides are going to arbitration in Hong Kong to settle the dispute once and for all. Your group will represent either Apple or Proview, and will prepare a “legal brief” for submission to the arbitration panel stating your side’s case, and providing legal research backing up your position. Instructions and Expectations a. Venue of the Case This dispute is going to take place as an arbitration in Hong Kong. Thus, the groups are to argue their sides as though you were arguing the case to a real arbitration panel.If you have any questions about what...
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...…………………………………………………………………………….5 Spelling ....…………………………………………………………………………..6 Style tips ..……………………………………………………………………………6 Paragraphs ...………………………..………………………………………………….7 Generalization and Support ..……………………………………………………………7 Transitions ………………………………………………………………………….….7 Sentences ...…………………………………………………………………………...8 Complete Sentences ……………………………………………………………..8 Wordiness ……………………………………………………………………………..8 Grammatical ……………………………………………………………………..8 Punctuation ……………………………………………………………………………..8 Active/Passive word use ……………………………………………………………10 Appendix A (Business Letter) .………………………………………………..….11 Appendix B (Memorandum) …..………………………………………………………..12 Appendix C (E-mail) ..…………………………………………………………………..13 Appendix D (Word Choice list) ..…………………………………………………..14 Appendix E (Writing Process chart) ..…………………………………………………..16 Appendix F (Reading Resource list) ..…………………………………………………..17 Appendix G (Self-grading checklist) ……………………………………………………18 Introduction In our daily lives, either at school or on the job, there exists the need for good written communication skills. We have all turned in a report at one time or another that wasn’t written as well as it could have been. This, unfortunately, sheds a negative light on us. There is...
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...------------------------------------------------- Course Syllabus PHI 105 Introduction to Philosophy Course Start Date: 08/15/2011 Course End Date: 10/16/2011 Please print a copy of this syllabus for handy reference. Whenever there is a question about what assignments are due or when they are due, please remember this syllabus is considered the ruling document. Copyright Copyright ©2010 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. University of Phoenix© is a registered trademark of Apollo Group, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft©, Windows©, and Windows NT© are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix© editorial standards and practices. Facilitator Information Larry Waggle, Ph. D. larrywaggle@email.phoenix.edu (University of Phoenix) Unclelahr@live.com (Alternate) 480-330-0953 (MST) Facilitator Availability I am available from 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Arizona Time on most days, but I attempt to reserve Sunday for my family. On Saturdays, I tend to be online in the morning only. If these times are not...
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...BA 3300 Business Cornerstone Summer I 2015 CRN 30146, 30144 BA 3300 Business Cornerstone Summer I 2015 CRN 30146, 30144 Please note: By taking this Summer course, it implies you fully understand you have to take the initiative to study, keep up with material/assignments, and check Gatormail/Blackboard EACH day. You do not have a day “off” and this includes weekends. There is also a SERVICE LEARNING (volunteering) component to this course that you are required to volunteer in person. (details explained in syllabus 8.1.5). In addition, a policy adopted by the Faculty of the College of Business on November 22, 2013 states, "Every fully online COB course will require live proctoring through UHD Testing Services or other location approved by UHD Testing Services for the required course final exam during the assigned university exam period." What this policy means is you will have to take the final exam IN PERSON (Proctor U also an option) and will need to plan accordingly. (note: please contact instructor immediately in the first week of class if taking the exam in person will be an issue). 1. COURSE NUMBER AND TITLE BA 3300 Business Cornerstone This course is in support of a degree program at the UHD College of Business that has earned professional accreditation by AACSB International. AACSB International is an association of more than 11,100 business educational institutions, and other organizations in 70 countries that are dedicated to the advancement...
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...THE EFFECT OF ADVERTISING ON CUSTOMER CHOICE A CASE STUDY OF CENTURY BOTTLING COMPANY LIMITED BY SEBYALA BOSCO 10/U/141910/BSE/PE A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED TO THE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR’S DEGREE OF BUSINESS STUDIES WITH EDUCATION OF KYAMBOGO UNIVERSITY AUGUST 2013 DECLARATION I Sebyala Bosco Registration Number 10/U/141910/BSE/PE, declare that this research report entitled “The effect of Advertising on Customer Choice case study of Century Bottling Company Limited” is out of my own effort and it has never been submitted to any institution for any award. Sign …………………….. Date……………………………. Sebyala Bosco 10/U/141910/BSE/PE APPROVAL This is to certify that the research report entitled “The effect of Advertising on Customer Choice case study of Century Bottling Company Limited” by Sebyala Bosco registration number 10/U/141910/BSE/PE has been done under my supervision. The research report is ready for submission to School of Management and Entrepreneurship with my approval as University supervisor. Sign: ……………………………… Date:……………………….. Ms. Nakatete Phionah (Supervisor) DEDICATION I dedicate this report to my beloved father Dr. Bukenya John Vicent, my beloved mother Ms. Namuli Josephine, Mr. Lubega Fred and Haji Kazibwe, Prof. Kawuma, Hajjati Sarah...
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...involve delivering or producing goods, rendering services, or other activities that constitute its ongoing major or central operations, and revenues are considered to have been earned when the entity has substantially accomplished what it must do to be entitled to the benefits represented by the revenues. That paragraph states that gains commonly result from transactions and other events that involve no earning process, and for recognizing gains, being earned is generally less significant than being realized or realizable. ASC 605-10-S99-1 (SEC Guidance SAB Topic 13) With respect to revenue recognition, the SEC guidance states that for revenue to be realized or realizable and earned from the sale of goods, all criteria must be met: a. Persuasive...
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...Lexical cohesion and the organization of discourse First year report PhD student: Ildikó Berzlánovich Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gisela Redeker Dr. Markus Egg Center for Language and Cognition Groningen University of Groningen 2008 Table of contents 1 Introduction.........................................................................................................1 2 Lexical cohesion...................................................................................................2 2.1 Lexical cohesion and discourse organization................................................2 2.1.1 Introduction.............................................................................................2 2.1.2 Lexical cohesion and genre.....................................................................2 2.1.3 Lexical cohesion and coherence .............................................................3 2.2 The role of lexical cohesion in the segmentation and centrality of discourse units......................................................................................................................5 2.2.1 Introduction.............................................................................................5 2.2.2 Discourse segmentation ..........................................................................6 2.2.3 Central discourse units............................................................................8 2.2.4 Conclusion .........................................
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