...Why Is the Scholarly Style So Different? Raluca S. Buciuc Glion Institute of Higher Education September 14, 2014 Why Is the Scholarly Style So Different? This work paper has the main purpose to analyze an academic article on a management topic and identify the way the author represents its ideas in a scholarly style. The chosen article is “Understanding and Managing the Generational Differences in the Workplace” written by Kapoor C. and Solomon N and published in Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes journal in 2011. In order to complete the analysis, the work paper resume the article and its findings, identify its value and main purpose and analyses its writing manner from the point of view of the scholarly style requirements, in comparison with other writing styles. Summary and Findings In “Understanding and Managing the Generational Differences in the Workplace” article Kapoor and Solomon (2011) treat one of the most sensitive issues of today managers: how to understand, treat and motivate their employees in order to maximize their productivity. In doing so, the authors of the paper advise the managers to pay attention to the individuality of their employees starting from the generational differences. They identify four different generations in most of the demographic structures of the companies today: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y. Simon (as cited by Kapoor & Simon, 2011) states that “every generation is influenced by the economic...
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...Marking-to-Market: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? Guillaume Plantin London Business School Haresh Sapra University of Chicago GSB Hyun Song Shin Princeton University August 13, 2007 Abstract Financial institutions have been at the forefront of the debate on the controversial shift in international standards from historical cost accounting to mark-to-market accounting. We show that the trade—o s at stake in this debate are far from one-sided. While the historical cost regime leads to some ine ciencies, marking to market may lead to other types of ine ciencies by injecting artificial risk that degrades the information value of prices, and induces sub—optimal real decisions. We construct a framework that can weigh the pros and cons. We find that the damage done by marking to market is greatest when claims are (i) long—lived, (ii) illiquid, and (iii) senior. These are precisely the attributes of the key balance sheet items of banks and insurance companies. Our results therefore shed light on why banks and insurance companies have been the most vocal opponents of the shift to marking to market. We are grateful to both our editor, Ray Ball, for his advice and comments and to an anonymous referee for many useful comments. We also thank participants at the 2007 Journal of Accounting Research conference as well as participants in various seminars, and, in particular, Doug Diamond, Ron Dye, Xavier Freixas, Milt Harris, Charles Goodhart, Raghu Rajan, Rafael Repullo...
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...January 14, 2015 M Scholarly Discussion 2.1 Understanding the parts of a complex system, or the Complex Theory, and how systems work together within an organization enables us to see how they can affect the patients care and eventual outcome. Choosing from the category of staff, the questions I would ask are as follows: does the institution allow for input and critical thinking from their nursing staff? As stated in Edgeware Tales, Unleashing People Potential, When Trouble Makers Become Superstars (1998), the nurse manager Janet has become “stagnated” in her “environment of command/control culture”. Janet’s personality is one of a “free thinker, she couldn’t accept a decision just because she was told to she needed to understand the decision”. Janet, “recognized what was not working rather than pretending it did”. Not all personalities are able to work and thrive in an atmosphere of conformity. The next important question to ask would be the status of morale. If the health care team members are unhappy and frustrated due to stringent policies, procedures and other limitations the patient outcome will be reflective of this. Edgeware Tales, Unleashing People Potential, When Trouble Makers Become Superstars (1998), “there seemed no opportunities to be creative, no reason to be innovative”. “Something was missing in Janet, something essential had become dormant - her passion”. Within a system of complexity leadership, there is the theory of distributed leadership...
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...DDBA-8005 Handout What is Scholarly Writing? If you are just beginning your graduate studies, much of the next few years of your life will be devoted to scholarly writing. You will be reading, discussing, and producing scholarly writing. You will get feedback from peers, instructors, and the Writing Center staff about how to adapt to the expectations of scholarly writing. You hear about it so much, in fact, that you may hesitate to ask the basic question: "What is scholarly writing?" Scholarly writing is a type of writing rather than a level of writing (there is no hierarchy in writing genres). Scholarly writing is not any better than journalism, fiction, or poetry; it is just a different category. As with any type of writing, scholarly writing has traditions and expectations that you know about only if you read or write in that style. Because most of us do not use scholarly writing in our daily practice, it can feel unfamiliar and intimidating, but it is a skill that can be learned. The more you are immersed in it, the more you will get a feeling for its hallmarks. Here are a few of the most common characteristics of scholarly writing: • The wording in scholarly writing is specialized, requiring previous knowledge on the part of the reader. You will not be able to pick up a scholarly journal in another field and easily understand its contents (although you should be able to follow the writing itself). Scholarly authors assume that their audience is familiar...
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...ENGLISH 102: RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS PROSPECTUS RESEARCH PORTFOLIO RESEARCH PAPERS 1-3 RESEARCH PAPER 4 PROSPECTUS In the Prospectus (500-750 words/MLA format), you will explain your research topic for the semester. I will read your prospectus and I might reject your topic, or parts of your topic. If I do, you’ll have to re-do the prospectus, or parts of your prospectus. Therefore, you should probably speak to me or email me about your topic before you write the prospectus. Title your Prospectus Like this: Examining the: _______ Subculture (fill in the blank with the subculture you plan to study) WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PROSPECTUS Introduction Describe why you chose this subculture and what about it interests you. Body Section One (this corresponds to Paper One) Explain how the subculture is viewed, and/or how it should be viewed. Body Section Two (this corresponds to Paper Two) Explain what or who signified a significant change within the subculture (this might include trends, discoveries, inventions, a certain person, or another subculture, etc.). Body Section Three (this corresponds to Paper Three) Explain an argument regarding a controversial issue within the subculture. Body Section Four (this corresponds to Paper Four) Explain why the larger culture should care about the subculture. Conclusion RESEARCH PORTFOLIO: 10 – 15+ SOURCES The purpose of keeping a research portfolio is to create an artifact record of all the research you’ll compile this semester in regards to your chosen...
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...Grade Assessment and Feedback Marking Guide Assessment Task: Specialist Essay Unit Code: MKTG207 Student Name: Assessor Name: Date: General Standards as Applied to this Assignment High Distinction 85-100% Distinction 75-84% Credit 65-74% Pass 50-64% The student demonstrates the competencies in Distinction standard and in addition demonstrates; • Insightful and comprehensive identification and discussion of key scholarly literature concerning the specialist marketing topic. • Advanced understanding and integration of the relevant marketing theory. • Advanced capacity to use insights to critically appraise literature, ideas and arguments, draws well-supported conclusions. • The work has been written, referenced and presented to an exemplary academic standard, and presents a compelling and effective argument/discussion. The student demonstrates the competencies in Credit standard and in addition; • Demonstrates selectivity and uses judgement in determining the importance of readings and ideas. • Develops a progressive, convincing, and clear argument throughout the work. • Shows evidence of wide reading and synthesis of ideas. • Demonstrates capacity to evaluate and critically appraise literature, ideas and arguments, draw appropriate conclusions and apply relevant theory. • The work has been written and presented to a high academic standard, and presents a coherent argument. The student demonstrates the competencies in Pass standard...
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...Scholarly Journal Criminology Theory October 16, 2012 Scholarly Journal The growing figures of women implicated in the criminal-justice system and the shortage of programs and assistance that are equipped toward their necessities has encouraged criminal justice experts to investigate their sanctioning and oversight procedures in terms of gender. However, there is additionally comprehensive information concerning the attributes of women in prisons and jails, there are considerably fewer facts on female delinquents in community correctional environments. The failure of mature females in criminal-justice investigation has been substantiated on the grounds that they report for only a short fraction of apprehensions and move fewer delinquencies than males. This explanation disregards the fact that, adult females who do register in the justice system, while fewer other and less vicious than their male counterparts, generally come to be extensive users of the system. In concentrating on the devastating quantity of males in the criminal and juvenile justice organizations programs, procedures and services usually fall through to produce a mixture of options for conducting with the gender and culturally specific complications of female offenders implicated in the system. For Gottfredson and Hirschi, transgression can generally be diminished to “acts of force or fraud undertaken in pursuit of self-interest,” which is speculative of both cross-cultural and reforming authentic interpretations...
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...the course presentation on research. You must review this material before beginning the assignment. Overview: You will locate, evaluate, and cite an article for a pretend research paper. While you will not need to write an actual paper, you will need to demonstrate your ability to conduct a search on the Jerry Falwell Library website, evaluate an article for quality and credibility, and cite your sources with integrity. Instructions: In this assignment, you will: * Choose a topic to research from the options in Step 1. * Search for and locate an appropriate article for your paper. Your article must be: * Appropriate for writing a paper on the chosen topic (relevant). * Written by a credible author. * Scholarly in nature. * Current for the field of research—in this instance, no more than 5 years old. * Objectively written. * Evaluate your article for quality and credibility. * Cite your source with integrity. ------------------------------------------------- Follow the steps below and record your responses to each question in the space provided. ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Note: Your score for this assignment is based on your accurate evaluation of your chosen article, not on meeting the criteria of the pretend research paper. Do not change articles if you find that yours is deficient on some point. Instead, perform a thorough evaluation of the...
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...Documenting Sources Documenting means showing where you got source information that's not your own. Remember, a research paper blends your ideas with ideas and information from other sources. Documentation shows the reader what ideas are yours and what information and ideas you've taken from a source to support your point of view. Why Document? * By correctly documenting, you establish your credibility as a writer and researcher. You're letting your reader know that you've consulted experts whose ideas and information back up your own thoughts and ideas. Consequently, you make your viewpoint or argument more believable. * When you don't document correctly, your academic integrity can be called into question, because it may seem as though you're passing off others' ideas as your own. * If you don't document, you could inadvertently plagiarize, which is grounds for dismissal from college. Academic Integrity Academic integrity involves not only acknowledging your sources, but also creating your own ideas. Academic integrity, explained in this way, sounds relatively simple. But the particular applications are a bit more tricky. The most common academic integrity problems that most students encounter are: 1. relying too heavily on others' information in a research paper 2. relying too heavily on others' words in a paraphrase or summary 3. citing and documenting sources incorrectly 4. relying too heavily on help from other sources The most egregious...
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...Achievement Pamela McLean Prof. Robyn Eackloff ENG 315 Professional Communications May 15, 2014 The report plan that I will be working on is The Impact of Poverty on Academic Achievement. In this report you will find the following information listed below: 1. Identify the recipient of the report. The recipient of this report would be Georgia Department of Education. 2. Identify the topic of the report. The topic of this report is The Impact of Poverty on Academic Achievement. 3. Identify the purpose of this report. The purpose of this report is to show 4. Identify potential resources that will be needed for support. The potential resources needed for this report will be books, newspaper articles, personal communication, scholarly journals, reliable website and the Strayer University Library. 5. Identify methods to be used to gather information. The methods that will be used to gather information will be research on the internet, survey and questionnaires, and maybe direct communication with a person in education on the principal level. 6. Identify criteria to be used to evaluate the information collected. The factors that I will use to make a recommendation would be the accuracy of the information I have gathered. Also it would be the currency of the information to make sure that the information is current. Also the objectivity of the information. How detailed is the information collected? And the authority of the information to make sure that the person...
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...Credit Where Credit is Due As a doctoral student, you’ll be spending enormous amounts of time reading, analyzing, and critiquing the work of scholars and researchers in your field. As you write about the ideas and research of others, you need to give credit where credit is due. That is, you need to be scrupulously clear when an idea, sentence, or phrase that you use is something you have read in the work of other scholars and not something you composed yourself. Before you dive into reading and analyzing research we want to ensure that you have the skills to ensure academic integrity in your work and give credit where credit is due. Many people think of plagiarism as simply copying the work of others and not giving credit (that is, not citing where the idea came from), but the most common Academic Integrity violation at Northcentral is related to improper paraphrasing (that is copying the work of others nearly word-for-word, or simply rearranging their words, even when you give credit to the source). To paraphrase correctly, you need to carefully read the material, think about it, and then express the idea in your own words. In this week, you will learn more about Northcentral University’s Academic Integrity Policy, how Northcentral deals with Academic Integrity violations, and what you can do to avoid all forms of plagiarism, intentional and unintentional. As a bonus, you’ll also consider the firsthand accounts of the professional development of two innovative and successful...
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...Avoiding Common Errors in Scholarly Writing At the graduate level, students are expected to write academic papers in a scholarly way. The problem is at the beginning of his or her studies, a graduate student is a nascent writer and does not know how to write in a scholarly manner. He or she will face many challenges when writing, that may result in him or her making frequent errors. The errors can be persistent unless the student learns how to recognize and change his or her writing behaviors that will lead to the common mistakes. McDougall, Ornelles, & Rao claims that education graduate students coming from other disciplines may have to unlearn previous writing habits that can lead to roadblocks in the “pathway” to quality scholarly writing....
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...Week 2 Assignment: Locating Scholarly Resources Article 1: Gooding, S. S. (May, 1996). At the boundaries of religious identity: Native American religions and American legal culture. Numen, 43(2), 157-183. Retrieved from JSTOR database. Thesis Statement: This essay attempts to build on the insights of these two great scholars-Felix Cohen, the legal scholar and “father of federal Indian law” and Lawrence Sullivan, the encyclopedic and graceful historian of religion-with regard to “Native America,” which is no less an imagined and located social-historical place than is “America.” I attempt to build on their shared claim that, although Native American communities may mark boundaries of social, political, and cultural difference in the US, the histories of these communities are neither “other” to nor on the periphery of American history, but at its heart. I also attempt to build on the present tense and dynamic sense of agency with which Cohen and especially Sullivan speak of Native Americans-a dynamic present tense too often missing in the historical frameworks given voice in scholarship. The relationship between religion and the law in Native America is an ideal subject through which to view this historical dynamism and to evaluate contemporary scholarly and legal frameworks for interpretation. Article 2: Bialecki, J. (2008). Between stewardship and sacrifice: agency and economy in a Southern California charismatic church. Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute...
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...ScholarlyScholarly Assignment-MACRO Analysis Research Strategies to be used by my Company For Keynes, the tension between rational calculation and the incalculable future is managed by the nature of humankind and our animal spirits . Keynes had an ambivalentview of uncertainty. He saw in the lack of rational control an undesired but unpreventableeffect of economic decision-making since the indeterminacy of the future is the prerequisitefor all autonomous and innovative rational activities. As Bernstein (1997, p. 229) puts it: ‘uncertainty makes us free.’This freedom to act is accompanied by the need to prepare for the undesired effects of risk-taking. The development of the statistical probabilistic skills to calculate the future contributed to the ‘modern’ response to uncertainty through insurance. Insurance was developed in Britain in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to meet the needs of mercantile capitalists to share the uncertainties of maritime trading. The growth and increasing wealth of the middle classes in the 19th century resulted in the expansion of insurance to protect against house fire and premature death (Evers and Novotny 1987, p. 36) Analyzation of the Macro environment using a PEST analysis The Macro Environment Analysis is traditionally the first step of a strategic analysis; it is sometimes referred to as an external analysis, a pest analysis or a pestle analysis. The purpose of the Macro Environment Analysis is to identify possible opportunities...
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...Critique of a Scholarly Journal Fields, Barry (2012) Getting the balance right: The challenge of balancing praise and correction for early school years children who exhibit oppositional and defiant behaviour. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 37(4), 24-29. Topic/Purpose: The purpose of this article was to investigate how schools that have implemented a School Wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) approach are balancing praise and correction for early school years children who exhibit oppositional defiant behavior (ODB). The author’s hypothesis is that the students that display ODB would have greater opportunities for praise and reward when exhibiting appropriate behavior given the SWPBS environment. Main Ideas/Concerns: With more children in early childcare settings exhibiting oppositional defiant behavior it becomes more challenging to create a nurturing and supportive learning environment. Early intervention is more than likely to yield a positive outcome for many developmental problems. Behavior improvement interventions have been found to be more effective when implemented across multiple settings. For pre-school and early childhood students, the most important settings for those interventions are the home and school (or childcare center). However the number of parents that incorporate any level of intervention in the home setting is unknown. Traditionally schools have focused...
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