...University of Phoenix Material Writing Resources Part I Complete the following table with at least three writing resources found in the Center for Writing Excellence. Note what the resource is in the first column, where it is found in the second, and how you will use it in the third column. |#Writing resource |Location |How will you use it? | |Plagiarism Checker |Under the Library tab and on |I will use this resource to check all of my papers and any | | |the Center for Writing |written assignments for plagiarism before I turn them in. | | |Excellence tab. | | |Writing Help on Phoenix Connect |Under the Library tab and on |I will use this resource to get help from fellow students as | | |the Center for Writing |well as use the support tools found here. | | |Excellence tab. | | |Tutorials and Guides |Under the Library tab and on |I will use this resource to give me samples of written papers| | |the Center...
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...This essay will discuss how my use of online information has grown from being merely a consumer, to now being able to critically evaluate online sources for credibility and suitability for use in academic work. My role in producing an online informational resource has been enhanced by both the readings, and the experience gained in the collaborative process involved in working as a team. This is my first experience at online collaboration and I will examine the challenges encountered using this medium of communication, how I dealt with them, the lessons learned, and what I would do differently during future collaborative work. Before this course, my experience with online sources of information had been limited to an observer status, and although I had read from a variety of sources online, and considered myself capable of sorting truth from fiction, I had never realised the extent to which information can and should be evaluated. A study conducted by Scholz-Crane 1998 (cited in Metzger, 2007, pp. 2080-2081) explains that a lax attitude toward proving the accuracy and credibility of websites is prevalent among college students. This information has encouraged me to be more critical in regard to information found on the web, and I now apply the criteria espoused by Tate, (2010, pp. 35-36) of checking for accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage. According to Treise et al (2003, cited in Cronin, 2007) sites in the .gov domain are considered more credible than those...
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...accurate and reliable. This guide is to help assess reputable websites. Surfing the WEB There is a lot of information available on the World Wide Web today. Deciphering what is accurate and creditable requires a closer look. When accessing information, these steps should be followed. First, locate the authors name, look for any credentials, locate the contact information, and what authority does the author have on this topic. Second, take note on who published the site, what links are connected to it and at the bottom of the web page look for the date of publication. Examine the domain or URL. Dot gov means a US government site, .mil means a US military site, and .edu means an accredited post secondary educational institution. Dot com means a commercial for profit site, .org means a noncommercial, not for profit entity, .net means a computer network, and .int means an international organization. Lastly, determine the sites purpose. Is it trying to sell something, persuade you, or just providing you with information. Investigating the areas will aid in evaluating websites. The author may have a PhD or be a professor but that does not make him and expert on topics not related to the field of practice or study. Taking not on the publishers helps determine the motive and correlation to the author. Looking at the date of publication helps determine how recent the information is and when last updated. Scenario and Recommendations A patient whom is 58 y/o has developed a...
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...Individual Analyzing Internet Sources Week 2 What did you learn? I learned more than I expected from the Pearson student lab activities. In the first activity I knew most of the information presented, but in the second activity I learned quite a bit about researching a topic. I did not know that the URL .org is no longer limited to a non-profit or research organization; which makes it harder to use that as a reliable resource but it can still be useful. I learned it is important to look for non-bias opinions, information with publish dates are resourceful, research based, and the best domains to find good information on are .org, .gov, .mil, and .edu. Although just because the site has one of these domains it does not mean the resource is accurate or correct necessarily. What did you not learn? Well as I said in the previous paragraph in the first activity most of the information that was present I acquired before. The comparison between the library and the internet are basic knowledge to most people. The Library is based for research purposes, with trained staff to help you, but closes at certain times. The internet has multiple reasons for use, with no trained assistance, but it never closes. They each have great traits that can be used for study. I also knew it is not safe to purchase items online you must be careful when doing this. You need to do research and make sure the site is reliable. Some people think because a paper has a title and author that it is true but...
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...ntroduction Since the introduction of dot.com companies in the late 90's to the way we do e-Business in today's market. Dot.com companies were a collection of start up companies selling products or service using the Internet. e-Business on the other hand is opening new avenues of collaboration in the apparel and retail industries, and companies across the supply chain. They proliferated in the late 1990's dot.com boom, a speculative frenzy of investment in Internet and Internet-related technicial stock and enterprises. The name derives from the fact that many of them have the ".com" internet top level domain suffix built into their company name. (Remember why the dot. com companies tanked?) Modell's Sporting Goods is the nation's oldest, family-owned and operated, retailer of sporting goods, sporting attire, for men, women and children wear and brand name athletic footwear. Modells.com (e-Business) currently offers a large collection of products from top name brands in the sporting goods and clothing business and has prospered from its e-business. Modell's has taken full advantage of its e-business opportunity like most of the dot.com companies but survived the rise and fall of the boom. The electronic medium (Internet) has reduced or eliminated many costs associated with doing store front business. For example: investment in real estate and facilities are reduced, and certain administrative costs related to these stores have been eliminated. Moreover, the accomplishment...
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...Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality Disorder Stephanie Feeser COM/155F3 August 25, 2013 Judith Rottsolk Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality Disorder Not every disability is visible by looking at a person. Imagine living in a world surrounded by many people yet feeling alone, flawed, damaged, and unable to function in society. A patient suffering from mental illness can have these feelings every day. Education is the key to understanding mental illnesses such as Schizophrenia and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Even though Schizophrenia and BPD share similar symptoms, they are often confused and misunderstood. There are a large number of similarities between BPD and Schizophrenia. Studies have shown that there is a genetic link with both mental illnesses. Childhood trauma, such as physical, sexual, and mental abuse, is a common history for patients with these diagnoses. Neglect of a child has negative effects that last a lifetime. The neglect causes symptoms such as inappropriate mood control, fear of abandonment, and attachment issues. No matter the history, whether it is genetics or abuse, facts show mental illness is prevalent. People who suffer from mental illness have a hard time functioning daily. Individuals with mental illnesses suffer from poor self-esteem and isolate themselves when they are in crises. Patients with these illnesses have contemplated, attempted or were successful with committing suicide. One in ten...
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...COM 155 (VER 4) Appendix E For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Appendix E Sentence Correction and Changes in Writing Review the following sentences. Some of them are correct, whereas others contain an error with a commonly confused word. Identify those with errors by marking each of the errors in bold. Make the correction in parentheses after the error. For those that are correct, write correct at the end of the sentence. ………………………………………………… COM 155 (VER 4) Appendix F For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Appendix F Summary, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation Review the four paragraphs below. There is one paragraph matching each of the following types: summary, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Once you have read each paragraph, complete the following chart to identify the type of paragraph for each. Paragraph Number ………………………………………………… COM 155 (VER 4) Assignment Identifying Errors in Writing For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Appendix D Identify Twenty Errors in the Passage Below Review the passage below, which contains 20 errors. Identify these errors by marking each of the errors in bold, and make your correction in parentheses after the error. Example: My cars interior is black. This must be marked as follows: My cars (car’s) interior is black. The 20 errors are in the following categories: comma usage (six errors); question marks, apostrophes, and quotation marks (five errors); capitalization (six errors); and colons...
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...Secondhand Smoke: How it Affects the Health of Others Stephen E. Smith IRN 9047136049 COM/150 02/10/2013 Tracey Fida Smoking cigarettes is a habit many people have these days, and fortunately those numbers are going down. If compared with the 1940’s, the number of smokers had a huge decrease nowadays. Mendes (2011), “Gallup and Healthways find the national smoking rate stuck at 21%. Although this is much lower than the historic highs of around 40%, Gallup found from the mid-1940s to the mid-1970s, there remains significant variation across states, with smoking levels in many states still at 25% or higher. The number of Americans who smoke has fallen to 20 percent, tying the all-time low first recorded in 2009.” (8). However, the health problems it brings to the smokers and their surroundings still a big concern and something people need to learn more about. Unfortunately, what some non-smoker does not realize is how bad that smoke is for them as it is for the smoker, the reason they are known as involuntary or passive smokers once they are breathing in the second hand smoke taking in the nicotine and toxic chemicals the same way smokers do. When a non-smoker sees somebody smoking a cigarette the first thing that crosses their minds is how bad that habit is, not juts because the harmful effects it causes to the smoker's health, but the odor impregnated in the clothes, the bad breath, and...
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...Expressive Essay (Observation, Ethnography or Memoir) First Draft ENC 1101 – CR Junkins Purpose: What do I want the student to do? In this course, we will explore the two most commonly used forms of writing for college students: expressive writing and academic writing. Expressive writing captures what is important to the writer. In order to succeed, writers must understand themselves. Such writing is deeply personal. Expressive writing is designed to prepare students for writing outside academics—communicating feelings and observations, beliefs and opinions, community and individuality—all skill sets that will enable students to succeed in any discipline or career path. From a learning perspective, expressive writing is often an easier form of writing than academic. It allows students to begin working with such concepts as language, reasoning and mechanics while working with material they find worth discussing. In this assignment, I want students to carefully examine both themselves and their community. What makes their community unique? What is their place within the community? How did their unique, individual personality take shape? Project Overview: How do I want the student to do the assignment? Component One: Personal Students will choose to write on one of the following three topics: • One’s sense of place (observation) • One’s place within a community (ethnography) • One’s relationship to an event from the past (memoir) ...
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...Brand loyalty Click below Link for Answer http://workbank247.com/q/brand-loyalty/3937 http://workbank247.com/q/brand-loyalty/3937 This assessment asks you to write an essay on the topic of brand loyalty. The essay question is: Is the use of rewards and loyalty cards an effective way to build brand loyalty?In your essay you need to examine the affect of brand loyalty on the consumers’ purchase and product involvement and their decision-making process.Preparing for your essayYou need to do research using relevant academic and industry sources and prepare an argument.Below are some steps to help you gather the relevant information and prepare your essay.Step 1: Develop an understanding the marketplace and the current rewards systemIn an attempt to win the “supermarket war”, Coles has recently introduced a revised loyalty rewards systems.Please go online and review the details of the reward system on the Coles website and review the case study story called “Has Coles got revamped flybuys right?”See website link to B &T Magazine on Interact site In addition to these sources, you need to understand the situation in the market place- so it is a good idea to search for other media stories related to loyalty programs in other supermarkets.Step 2: Theory about brand loyalty and the decision-making stagesYou need to include theory in your essay, so in addition to the text book, you need to find some academic journal articles. Please use the followingtwoarticles:Bridson, K., Evans...
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...Although of The Twilight Saga books are fictional with a mystical story line; these books will be remember for many years. The Twilight Saga has become so surprisingly popluar in the past two to three years. Reminding all of us of the Harry Potter novels. Though both groups of books targeted different age groups; the overwhelming popularity reached out to all age groups. Including children, teenagers, young adults, and grown adults. I look back to my childhood, and the books that were popular then were part of the bubble gum culture of the 1980's. When my children are adults, they will remember the Twilight Saga, and even Harry Potter. Then relate those types of books to their childhood. Which does a have different type of culture. I call it the fantasy and reality culture. I am positive there is a more specific name for it, but in my mind everything in today's media culture is either reality based, or fantasy based. Yes both are far from each other, but when one does not want to live reality, they are most likely to chose fantasy. I think that is why Twilight Saga and Harry Potter books have become so vastly popular. The only issues I can see coming from the fantasy part is the need for children to know how to decipher the difference between reality and fantasy. If this is not done, then there could possibly be all different types of issues for the children readers when they become...
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...Checkpoint: Expository Characteristics COM/150 Effective Essay Writing 14 August 2011 What characteristics make these essays expository? Art of Cookery This is definitely an expository essay because it is actually listing steps to successful restaurant. The thesis at the beginning of the essay states the reasoning behind why the following steps are needed to create an attractive dining experience. The steps are mostly relating to how the dining area is set up. How to Filet a Fish This expository essay was an informative piece that detailed the parts of fish and how to filet it for food. The essay tells how different fish are cut and prepared. The best part about this essay was that it gives details on whether it is appropriate to filet or steak or cook the fish whole. Identify the type of organization each author used to develop the essay: topic, time order, space order, or informative process. I believe that the “Art of Cookery” essay is a topic essay because it organizes the logical things needed to set up an attractive dining area. It was difficult deciding if this was topic or informative process but since it didn’t seem to list the data in step by step process I felt that topic seemed more accurate. Topic and informative essays seem to me to be similar and may be easily confused. The “How to Filet a Fish” essay is most definitely an Informative essay. The essay tells exactly “how to” decide what cut is appropriate...
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...for successful writing: A rhetoric, research guide, reader, and handbook (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. COM 150 What is the main point of this essay? The main point of this essay is, “Even though it’s the new art of today, I don’t agree with the cosmetic surgery because people take it to the extreme and it can be dangerous.” What is the greatest strength of this essay? The examples that were shown throughout the essay were excellent. The situations and circumstances of the examples were so intense that it was very logical in the way it supported the main point. Does the introduction grab your interest and make you want to read on? Explain your answer. The introduction grabs my interest because it is a very strong subject. It makes people want to read on because of the severity of the subject. What material does not seem to fit the main point of the essay or does not seem to be appropriate for the audience? This essay is well put together. Everything is subject-related and pertains to the main point. She did an excellent job. Where should the author add more details or examples? Explain your answer. I honestly believe that the essay is complete. There is nothing wrong with adding even more examples though just to make the subject that much stronger. Where is the writing unclear or vague? This essay makes sense. There are no unclear thoughts. What is your favorite part of this piece of writing? I love the example of the...
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...Even though credit cards can be a source of paying for college-related expenses; credit card companies should not be on college campuses because most students will misuse the credit card, go into credit card debt and not realize the full financial hole they are in and struggle for years to pay off the debt. The first reason why credit card companies should not be on colleges marketing to college students is that it is very easy for a college student to misuse the new credit card. A college student most likely has limited financial means and a credit card could help today but hurt substantially more down the road. With a limited income, it would be very easy for the student to become financially dependent on the card. A 2009 Survey by Sallie Mae concluded the following. “The economic downturn has most Americans tightening their spending habits, but not all. College students are even more dependent upon credit cards, according to a survey conducted by Sallie Mae, the nation’s leading provider of student loans. The organization released its survey results last week in its National Study of Usage Rates and Trends. The study focused on undergraduate student’s ages 18 to 24 who were enrolled in public and private four-year colleges and universities during the spring of 2008.” [ (Phan, 2009) ] Another misuse of credit card spending occurs when the student is trying to fit into a social crowd among its peers. Many students feel a need to be part of socially acceptable “cool” crowd...
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...Social Security and Retirement Erin Darby COM172 June 7, 2011 Louise Gerdes Social Security and Retirement In the United States, Americans need to plan for retirement. Social Security will not cover people’s needs when retiring. Americans who retire should use savings based on their personal investments, private savings accounts, employer’s pensions such as 401K, and Social Security so that they can live the rest of their lives comfortably. Americans that retire can receive full Social Security benefits depending on their year of birth. For example, baby boomers have the retirement age increased to age 67 for those born after 1960. The generation of baby boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y should be concerned that Social Security benefits will be exhausted when reaching the age of retirement. Without Social Security, what security do Americans really have? Americans should not depend on Social Security for early retirement for several reasons. The Social Security benefit amount might be less than what retirement recipients need, the retirement benefits might disqualify them from receiving full Social Security benefits, or the benefits may no longer be available. One reason Americans should not depend on Social Security is that the benefit amount might be less than what Social Security retirement recipients need. Some workers who have contributed to their Social Security could possibly fall into poverty. According to Laura Sullivan (2008), “future generations...
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