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  • Forum Post – Difference between induction and deduction

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    Please describe the difference between induction and deduction. Which approach to reasoning, in your opinion, is the “highest” form of homeland security analysis and why?

     http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/hypothes.php

    Additional Files:

    hypothesis_pp.ppt

  • Breastfeeding Policy – Health Care Policy: The Past and the Future

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    HCS 455 week 3 Individual Assignment The Policy Process Part I

    Policies are constantly being reviewed and considered to help improve the American health care system. Each one has the potential to affect each of us on a daily basis, so careful consideration must be given when policies are proposed. It is important to understand the process of how a topic eventually becomes a policy.

    Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper on the complete process of how a topic becomes a policy. In your paper, include the following information:

    ·        Formulation stage

    ·        Legislative stage

    ·        Implementation stage

    Cite a minimum of three references.

    Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

  • Writing to Inform: The Mosquito Bite (Draft Version)

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    ENC 1102: Writing and Rhetoric II

    Topic:
    The objective for this first essay, the empirical research report, is to understand field research: how to conduct it and how to use it in writing. This first major writing project of the course asks you to write with the primary rhetorical purpose of informing while using personal experience obtained through primary research (i.e. observations, interviews, and surveys). You will learn to correctly and effectively incorporate primary research using APA formatting in your writing.

    Process:
    Your subject must be an observable natural or social phenomenon. It is up to you to decide why the thing you choose to write about is significant. Don’t be frightened by the concept of “phenomenon.”  For the purpose of this assignment, we will use the term to mean “an observable event or occurrence which may be investigated through first-hand research.” The phenomenon must be observable, local, and current, which means you can personally go to and see the phenomenon without the aid of a microscope or telescope, unrealistic long-distance traveling, or a time machine.

    An issue such as pollution is too broad for this assignment, so think smaller. Often the most significant occurrences in nature and society are unassuming and go unnoticed by most people. In nature, it could be an invasive species in a local environment, local signs of global warming, or the effects of a nearby oil spill. In society, it can be a cultural activity, different habits such as sports or music, and hosts of other activities people engage in. Make sure you pick a topic that you will feel comfortable sharing with your peers.
    Your purpose for this assignment is to inform your readers about your particular topic through your own first-hand observations, surveys, and interviews (primary research).
    Your audience for this assignment is the uninformed and curious public. Your audience, however, is not in a “need-to-know” situation; they are merely unaware and inquisitive. You should work with their curiosity to inform them and broaden their view of your topic. With this in mind, your research should present new and surprising information. If you’re writing about a commonly unknown topic, this shouldn’t be a problem. However, if you decide to write about a well-known topic, your paper should include more recent or surprising information.

    Keep in mind that this essay’s aim is to inform, not persuade. You are not arguing a local issue; you are simply surprising your readers with focused information. However, if you do encounter an arguable issue during your investigation, you should keep notes for further essays you’ll be writing, as you will be working with the same topic for the remainder of the term.

    When developing your topic, ask yourself questions such as:

    • What new and interesting things about nature or society can I show my readers?
    • What interests me about this phenomenon?
    • What might others not know and possibly find interesting or surprising?
    • What common (and possibly incorrect) views do others hold about my topic?
    • What interesting or surprising claim might I make about my topic?
    • How much background information will my audience need?

    Essay Format:

    An empirical research report differs from other styles of informative writing in that it is divided into specific sections. The main ones include: Introduction, Method, Results, Discussion, References, and Appendix.[1] These categories are clearly marked by the aforementioned headings:

    1. INTRODUCTION: Explain the phenomenon to be investigated. Why is this event or occurrence interesting and/or important?  What is your research question? What do you expect to find?  (i.e. What is your hypothesis?)
    1. METHOD:  Describe how your study or experiment was done. Here you will clearly document each step of your primary research. It is an important aspect of an empirical research report that your investigation can be replicated in order to be considered valid.
    1. RESULTS: Explain/summarize the results of your primary research (i.e. observations, interviews, surveys). Any charts or graphs you produce about your research may be included here if they are small. Long tables of data should be attached at the end in the appendix.
    1. DISCUSSION: Analyze your results and draw conclusions. Did anything surprise you? What are the possible causes and consequences of your findings?  Where could further research be done in the future? What were the flaws and limitations of your study?
    1. REFERENCES: Following APA guidelines, list any and all secondary sources used in the paper. For information on APA formatting, see A&B 585-91 and EW pp. 515-550. Sources must be in alphabetical order and include all necessary information for future researchers to locate them
    1. APPENDIX: This database includes all of your research materials, such as a record of your detailed observations, a sample survey, all interview transcripts, and/or large tables of data. Any other data you collected should also be attached here.

    Your final draft should be 1000-1500 words. It should be typed, double-spaced, and use 12-point, Times New Roman font with one-inch margins. The essay should adhere to correct APA style. DO NOT use second person. The Writer’s Memo, Title page, References, and Appendix sections do not count toward the 1000-word minimum word count for this essay.

    Research:

    In this paper, your examination into your chosen topic must be taken from primary research. (Secondary research is not a requirement in this assignment.) You must conduct: (a) detailed observations, (b) at least two interviews, and (c) at least a one-page survey on a group of at least twenty people.

     

    Banned Topics:

    There are a number of topics I have banned because they have been overused in past student papers and/or do not yield new or surprising information for the audience. Therefore, DO NOT write your paper on the following topics:[2] lowering or keeping the current drinking age, marijuana, gay marriage, abortion, gun control, assisted suicide or euthanasia, texting and driving, religion, GE/organic food, green energy, elderly drivers, school uniforms, paying college football players, violent video games, technological effects, stem cell research, and cloning.

     

    Summary of Grading Criteria:

    A good response to this assignment will do all of the following:

    1. Write with the primary rhetorical purpose of informing;
    2. Respond to the needs of an uninformed and curious audience;
    3. Demonstrate engagement with a focused and meaningful research question;
    4. Demonstrate rhetorically-effective use of primary research (interviews, observations, and survey questionnaire(s);
    5. Cite primary sources correctly according to APA guidelines;
    6. Effectively incorporate research materials into the document;
    7. Produce a final draft that shows evidence of a thoughtful writing process, including invention, revision, and proof-reading;
    8. Use syntax, punctuation, and spelling effectively in service of rhetorical purpose.

    9 Pages

    Grading Criteria:

    Purpose & Audience Awareness 20 points 20%
    Genre Conventions/Structure 20 points 20%
    Research 20 points 20%
    Documentation 20 points 20%
    Style 10 points 10%
    Writing Process 10 points 10%
    TOTAL: 100 points 100%
  • Pros of technology and the counterclaim

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    Write an essay explaining the pros of technology. Provide counterclaims for your points

    2 Pages

  • Hamlet’s Essay

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    Analyze Hamlet’s state of mind in Acts 1 and 2. What are the reasons for his state of mind?

    Pages: 2, double spaced

    Quality: Low

  • An Eye for an Eye Will Turn the Whole World Blind

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    An Eye for an Eye Will Turn the Whole World Blind: a Critical Study with Respect to the Adoption of Reformative Theory of Punishment

    Contents:

    Chapter one: INTRODUCTION

    Chapter Two: CONCEPT OF LEX TALIONIS

    Chapter Three: CONCEPT OF PUNISHMENT

    Chapter Four: PUNISHMENT IN THE INDIAN AND GREEK CONTEXT

    Chapter Five: Reformative Approach

    Chapter Six: CONCLUSION

    Pages: 25, double spaced

  • Huck follows his heart in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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    Critical Analysis Of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    For this assignment, you must write an essay (5-7 pages) in which you analyze a character (or you may compare or contrast two characters), a conflict, OR a theme in Twain’s novel. You may choose one of the following topics or write one and get it approved by your professor. The paper must have four outside sources (sources from your text are ok), but the sources must be literary criticism or scholarly sources regarding your topic of choice. Please, as always, use the MLA format for this essay. (See the LIBGUIDE on D2L for help with finding sources).

    Conflicts for analysis:

    • Life on the Shore Vs. Life on the River
    • Huck’s Sound heart vs. His deformed conscience
    • Pap as a father vs. Jim as a father
    • Conformity vs. Non-conformity
    • Civilization vs. Nature
    • Tom vs. Huck
    • Religion vs. spirituality

    Characters for analysis: (remember, for character analysis, you may choose to trace the change in a character, or analyze the characteristics of a character, or show the ways in which the author reveals character, or compare and/or contrast two characters).

    • Tom
    • Huck
    • Jim
    • Pap
    • The women characters of the novel

    Ideas for theme exploration: (for this topic you must come up with an assertion in which you state what Twain may be conveying about these topics)

    • Freedom
    • Escape
    • Money and its impact on society
    • Prayer/religion
    • Alcoholism
    • Violence and its impact on society
    • Conformity vs. Non-conformity

    You could also analyze:

    • How this novel fits the definition of realism.
    • How this novel uses satire to convey its central idea
    • How this novel is or is not racist
  • Teens Face-to- Face Communication

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    Teens prefer face-to-face communication, and many of them think using social media can interfere with that

    Discuss in 6 pages

  • School shootings

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    Description of Assignments:

    1. Qualitative Research Proposal – I need you to write down a qualitative research proposal with the following components:

    Chapter 1:

    1. Methodology

    Purpose of the Study and Research Questions

    Research Design

    The Participants and/or Setting

    Data collection

    Treatment of the Data

    Provisions of Trustworthiness

    Epoche

    Summary

    References

    13 Pages

  • What Do You Think Now?

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    What Do You Think Now?  (Chapter 3, Page 53)

    The World of Customer Service: Customer Relations and Servicing

    1. What are sure-fire techniques for providing superior customer-service?
    2. What situations and practices might provide easy traps for inferior customer service?
    3. How can you maximize a customer’s expectations and perceptions about the customer service your company provides?
    4. How does exceptional customer service generate customer loyalty?
  • Expository Writing – Azar Nafisi, “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran.”

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    Expository Writing

    Essay 1

    Reading:

    Azar Nafisi, “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran.”

    Guidelines:

    The paper must be typed, double-spaced, with one-inch margins and 12-point font, Times New Roman. Include your name, page numbers on every page, and an original title centered on the first page. Please staple the paper in the upper left-hand corner.

    When evaluating your papers, I will be looking specifically for these things:

    1. A thesis that responds directly to the essay question
    2.  Support for your thesis with minimal summary of Nafisi
    3.  An engaging introductory paragraph followed by a series of well-formed, coherent body paragraphs
    4.  At least one well-chosen quotation from Azar in each body paragraph
    5.  Good integration of quotations, as discussed in class
    6. Minimal sentence-level errors

    Question:

    In “Selections from Reading Lolita in Tehran” Azar Nafisi outlines a relationship between fiction and reality that might be described as equivocal, or at least challenging. While she seems to admire the writer Nabokov, in part, for his ability to capture “the texture of life in a totalitarian society”—her kind of society—she also cautions against reading fiction as “a carbon copy of real life.” What fiction gives us, she continues, is “not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.” Reading Nafisi deeply, respond to the following: What sort of truth (beyond mere “reality”) can we gain access to through fiction, and how is that truth related to “real life”?

    Remember to build your own thesis. Support it through engagement with Nafisi’s text.

    4 pages

  • REFLECTIVE ESSAY on Car Parking

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    REFLECTIVE ESSAYS

    This brief writing assignment is designed to help you consider and reflect upon important issues related to planning as discussed in the three articles. The exercise of writing a reflective essay is designed to help you consider and reflect upon important issues related to planning and/or your own personal development while further developing your written communication skills. The primary goals for this assignment is to encourage you to

    • take the time to think seriously and critically about planning
    • explore the significance of personal experiences, events, successes or failures by relating them to broader themes or abstract ideas that illustrate important beliefs and generalizations about life as connected with the articles
    • critically evaluate how your personal beliefs, habits, and actions influence your perspective on planning
    • express your ideas clearly and persuasively

    Webster’s dictionary defines a reflection as thought, idea, or opinion formed as a result of meditation or consideration of some subject matter, idea, or purpose. The goal of reflective writing is to provide a sort of distancing, as if viewing the idea or event for the first time, in order to analyze, evaluate, compare, plan or problem-solve. The best reflective essay will be honest and will reveal your ability to evaluate yourself and others fairly and candidly. Because this essay is intended to express your point of view to a reader, the tone should be somewhat formal without being excessively academic. The personal, chatty tone of a private journal is inappropriate for an audience of your professional peers, but you need not be as formal as you would in a research or technical report.

    Guidelines

    The reflective essay is not intended to be long or complicated assignment. While we hope that you will spend a lot of time pondering the topic, you should be able to complete the writing in 1-2 hours. The assignment requires no research aside from the original reading citation, unless, of course, you choose to quote someone else as a means of expressing your ideas. The writing should focus primarily on YOU (i.e. your thoughts about or reactions to) rather than on YOUR ENVIRONMENT (actions of or motives ascribed to others). The essays should be clear and concise, logically developed, and in adherence with general conventions of written language (spelling, grammar, development of thought, and proofreading),

    The essay must adhere to the writing guidelines that can be found in the “course documents” section of Blackboard.

  • A Date with Drag

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    Observation 2: A Date with Drag

    Write an observational essay about an intriguing place, person, or activity in your community. Your essay may be a brief profile of an individual based on one or two interviews: a description of a place or activity observed once or twice; or a longer, more fully developed profile of a person, place, or activity based on observational visits and interviews conducted over several days. Observe your subject closely, and then present what you have learned in a way that both informs and engages readers. Use lots of description.
    Possible topic ideas for observation (see your text for more ideas): -a church or temple (interview the minister/members) -a classroom (interview teacher/students) -a popular hangout -a hospital -any place that’s different or gets you outside of your comfort zone -a ride along with an officer -an AA meeting -a protest -a jail -hospice -homeless shelter -shelter for abused women with children

    4 pages

  • Critical Book Review: A Magnificent Catastrophe

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    Assignment: Critical Book Review

    Format: APA (American Psychological Association)

    Length: 4-5 pages (Content)

    Your assignment is to write Critical Book Reviews of A Magnificent Catastrophe by Edward J. Larson .Once you have read the books you are to write a Critical Book Review of each work. NOTE: A Critical Book Review is more than a book report, but is a chance for you to give your reaction to the work and author.

    • You do not need to provide an Abstract or author’s note.
    • The title page and reference page do not count as part of the 4-5 pages of content.
    • You do need to provide a reference page even if your only reference is the assigned book itself.
    • Do not use the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a source.
    • You must have a title page (Do not put pictures, charts, graphs, etc. on the title page. Simply follow APA  format.
    • Do not use an overabundance of quotes in your paper. I want to read your writing not another author’s.
    • Watch paragraph length. A paragraph shouldn’t go on for 2 pages or more.
    • Do not overuse commas…if in doubt…leave it out.

    Consider the following in writing your critical book review:

    • What are the positive and negative aspects of the book?
    • Does it cover the issue adequately?
    • Does it cover a historical or contemporary view?
    • What would you like to see added to the book or taken out?
    • How well does the book add to your knowledge of our American system of politics?
    • Would you recommend the book(s) to others? Why or Why not?

    You are free to add to the above list and come up with some of your own unique critics of the book(s) and author.

    The following link(s) also provide additional guidelines and questions to consider in writing your critical book review: https://apps.carleton.edu/curricular/history/resources/study/criticalbookreview/

  • Respond to the story “Eveline” by James Joyce

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    Paper instructions:
    Respond to the story “Eveline” by James Joyce. How do you feel about them? Why do you think that is? In what ways have the class discussion influenced your thoughts and feelings about the feelings? How is the story relevant to your life today?
  • Ethos, Logos, Pathos analysis in Martin Luther King Jr. Letter

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    Analysis of the Letter from Birmingham Jail

    Ethos, Logos, Pathos analysis in Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from Birmingham Jail.
    Choose one or two or all of pathos logos ethos in MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail by passing reference to letter Call for Unity

    WRITING:
    1. Rhetorical Analysis Essay Rough Draft Due. .
    A rhetorical analysis examines a text using the lens of the rhetorical situation as it’s analytical device.
    Prompt: What is the author’s purpose in this letter. Who is the specific audience? Who is the implied audience? What rhetorical appeals were apparent? Ethos? Pathos? Logos? Did Martin Luther King Jr. acheive his purpose? How? If not, why not?
    Be specific and support your claims with evidence and details from the text (letter).
    12 pt font, double spaced, stapled. MLA format.

    3 pages