Essay #4: Argument of Fact
Refer to Everything’s an Argument Chapter 8 discussing Arguments of Fact. An Argument of Fact relies on research and facts to build and support a claim. You often are asked to write these essays in a university setting in relation to research-based claims about a topic that are often controversial. This essay will focus on a popular topic from society today – something you have already chosen and written Essay #3 – a Proposal for Argument of Fact. Now, you will write the Argument of Fact Essay.
Intended Readers: A group of individuals who are affected by the argument’s claim, but may not be fully informed about the facts that are used as support for both sides. It is important to use logic and detailed support to convince your readers of your claim. Goal: To create an argument that makes a claim about a fact or existence of something that could be challenged by society (e.g. climate change is threatening the environment), or to correct or challenge an error or societal myth (e.g. the abortion rate is not increasing nationwide in the United States). Format: MLA formatting will be used to construct an essay that includes an introduction, body, conclusion, and works cited page. It will be 5-6 pages long.
Once your rough draft is complete, follow the instructions to post and reply to the discussion board. Once your rough draft is complete, submit it to Tutor.com to get feedback on the draft. These steps MUST be completed by the middle of the week in order to get Tutor.com and peer comments in time to submit and use for revision.
Grading Criteria: Use this list, to check that your essay is following the core grading criteria.
_____ Is it 5-6 pages with MLA formatting? _____ Does the essay fully answer the assignment given? _____ Does the writer avoid grammatical errors? _____ Is the essay logically organized? _____ Is the topic and focus of the paper clear throughout? _____ Does the writer provide quality, unique examples and evidence as support? _____ Is the information from at least 3 resources analyzed and documented effectively?
Argument of Fact Essay Scoring Rubric
Exceeds Expectations Meets Expectations Needs Improvement Ineffective Not Demonstrated
Clear, Argumentative Focus (30)
In addition to meeting expectations, writer produces highly effective work by means as established by the instructor 30-27 Focus of essay is argumentative and remains consistent and easy to follow throughout the essay
26-24 Focus of essay is largely consistent and argumentative but may wander off topic briefly or struggle to clearly rebut counterclaims 23-21 Focus of essay is unclear, not argumentative, or inconsistent; ideas may be hard to follow or understand; may be contradictory 20-18 Writer fails to focus on any one clear topic and/or does not make an argumentative claim
17-0 ______/30 Evidence/ Support (30) In addition to meeting expectations, writer produces highly effective work by means as established by the instructor 40-36 Writer selects effective scholarly evidence and uses it clearly and convincingly to support claims 35-32 Writer selects evidence that may not clearly support the claim or uses it in a way that does not connect it clearly
31-28 Evidence selected does not support the claim and/or is used incorrectly or unclearly; evidence is not scholarly in nature 27-24 Writer fails to use evidence (if no textual evidence is quoted, the score for this category is automatically zero)
23-0 ______/30 Development of Ideas (25) In addition to meeting expectations, writer produces highly effective work by means as established by the instructor 30-27 Ideas are developed logically, with clear connection to the central claim
26-24 Ideas lack consistent development or struggle to logically connect to the central claim
23-21 Ideas fail to connect logically to one another or the central claim; writer may use claims that contradict central claim 20-18 Writer fails to develop clear or reasonable ideas
17-0 ______/25 Organization (15) In addition to meeting expectations, writer produces highly effective work by means as established by the instructor 20-18 Essay is organized well with logical breaks in the text and effective, logical transitions
17-16 Essay is not always logically organized; transitions may be weak or unclear; writer may fail to connect ideas to one another logically 15-14 Essay is poorly organized, difficult to follow, lacking transition, and/or confusing
13-12 Organization is such that the reader cannot follow the line of thought without great effort
11-0 ______/15 MLA Format & Documenting (15) Essay flawlessly or very nearly flawlessly uses MLA formatting and documentation 20-18 Essay has only minor flaws in MLA format-ting and documenta-tion 17-16 Essay has several flaws in MLA formatting and documentation
15-14 Essay has several glaring flaws in MLA formatting and documentation
13-12 Essay fails to use MLA formatting (Essays that fail to document—plagiarized essays—receive a zero) 11-0 ______/15 Mechanics (10) Essay flawlessly or nearly flawlessly uses grammatical mainstream English 10-9 Essay has only minor flaws in using grammatical mainstream English 8 Essay has several flaws in grammatical mainstream English
7 Essay’s mechanical flaws make it difficult to follow or understand
6 Essay is unreadable
5-0 ______/10 Comments/Total
______/125
Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of one drug to treat gastrointestinal system. Use 1 peer review journals no older than 5 years to support your discussion
Discuss the advantage and disadvantage of one drug to treat gastrointestinal system. Use 1 peer review journals no older than 5 years to support your discussion. Use APA format.
Design a brand campaign for your company. Use the key brand elements and all the information learned during the task and from the companies that have been successful in branding
Design a brand campaign for your company. Use the key brand elements and all the information learned during the task and from the companies that have been successful in branding.
You might also want to look at Brands Create Customers about how Apple brands to get ideas from one successful company.
And, Introduction to Brand Strategy: 7 Essentials for a Strong Company Brand
Decide what your brand is. Then design a brand strategy for your company.
Activity 3: Boden Case Study
Read the Boden case study. Analyze the case looking specifically at the branding by Boden.
Think about:
- What did they do?
- How did this differ from previous efforts or from the competition?
- How successful was the branding?
- What does this example tell you about branding your company?
describes how you could use Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVES) to engage colleagues or leaders in your organization
Describe how you could use Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVES) to engage colleagues or leaders in your organization. Discuss how MUVES can help you and others stay current on technology trends. Include the following in your paper: •Describe how MUVES can help leaders and others participate in professional development workshops and personal learning networks. •Describe your experience with the MUVES. Length: 5-7 pages References: Minimum of three scholarly resources. Your paper should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect graduate scholarly writing and current APA standards.
analyze the values of the organization for which you work, or one with which you are familiar. Observe and analyze the corporate or business culture. Include the structure of the organization and information-sharing practices. In the introduction to your paper, explain and provide the relevant background of your organization.
Write a 1,750- to 2,100-word paper in which you analyze the values of the organization for which you work, or one with which you are familiar. Observe and analyze the corporate or business culture. Include the structure of the organization and information-sharing practices. In the introduction to your paper, explain and provide the relevant background of your organization.
Include the following:
- How do structure and power relationships influence decision making within your organization?
- Assess the physical, behavioral, and verbal manifestation symbols that affect the culture of your organization, such as décor, logos, ceremonies, rituals, jokes, jargon, and anecdotes.
- How would you assess your organization’s method for the collection, management, and use of information? How could you use these data from an assessment to strategically improve your organization’s communication?
- Provide an assessment of the conditions, channels, and strategies used by your organization.
- Reflect upon the ethical checks and balances related to communications within your organization.
- Using strategies and theories discussed in class or from the readings, suggest ways in which organizational communication can be measurably improved.
Cite at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed sources other than your textbook, Introducing Communication Theory, in your research for this paper.
Format your assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
Marketplace Live simulation assignment-Digital marketing options for your division
Details:
This part of your Marketplace Live simulation assignment is individual. You will present the content to your team members and determine an appropriate digital marketing plan to include in your Marketing Plan assignment.
At this point, your team has developed a Marketing Plan to support your marketing division and justify an additional capital investment from corporate headquarters to move forward. Digital marketing is a critical part of marketing strategies today because of the prevalence of social media and other web-based technologies, online media outlets, and mobile Internet and applications.
Based on the current position of your new division in the simulation and your goals for coming quarters analyze the market research data, competitive data, and real-world digital marketing options to develop a summarized digital marketing plan for your division that benefits growth and considers competition. In 500-750 words, address the following:
- Digital marketing options for your division:Discuss the decision to shift all or a portion of your division’s promotional budget in the simulation to digital marketing. Consider factors including B2B verses B2C considerations in digital media, target market coverage, exposure, analytics, and costs.
- Digital media impact:How would the addition of digital media options influence your division’s overall promotional plan?
- Digital media types and options: Include examples of specific social media platforms, blogs, websites, applications, etc. and include a justification for each based on your division’s goals. Use real-world data by researching the outlets/platforms, reviewing media kits when available, and citing available sources on exposure, targeting options, etc.
- Monitor digital media:How will you monitor effectiveness and adjust your strategy based on your division’s goals?
You are required to include both academic and professional references (e.g., data on analytics, platform use data) to justify your plan.
Submit your individual report to the assignment drop box, and then post your report to your CLC team forum for your group to review. Review the reports of the rest of your team and, as a group, discuss your individual plans to create the final digital marketing section to be included in your group’s Final Report due in Topic 8.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.
I have included the Rubric and our teams Marketing Plan
Current Challenges in Our Child Welfare Policies & Examining Culture and Policy
There are two parts to this assignment:
Part 1 – Current Challenges in Our Child Welfare Policies
Read the case study in the text beginning on page 152 entitled “Children Who Are Not Headliners”. This is a very stark case study based on a real family. I found myself asking many questions such as, “Why were the children not removed from their family and placed into foster care?” I have worked with families similar to this one, and I remember that one of the realities is that often families who are in the child welfare ‘system’ have experienced generations of neglect, trauma and chaotic living. Basically, our efforts must be multi-faceted so that we can help both parents and children when they are embedded in these kinds of troubles. To demonstrate your understanding of the application of this chapter’s concepts to the case, please answer the following questions.
1. Based on what you have learned in this chapter about the current policy challenges in the child welfare system, what policy changes might make the system more useful to this family? (Hint: These policy challenges begin on page 142 of the chapter.) Be sure to tell WHY these policy changes might be effective.
2. What is ONE way that risk could be reduced for this family?
3. What is ONE way that protective factors could be enhanced for this family?
Part 2 – Examining Culture and Policy
Assume that you and your friends decide to spend the day in Chicago. You arrive by train around 12:00 noon and head for a restaurant that was recommended by a friend. Just as you are approaching the restaurant you notice that there is a baby carriage containing an infant parked on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant. It appears that the infant is unattended.
Upon entering the restaurant you notice two things in particular. One, the place is packed but there is a table left for you and your friends. And two, from inside the restaurant the baby carriage is visible through some of the windows.
1. Are you at all concerned about the unattended infant? Or, is it someone else’s concern?
2. If you are concerned, what would you do (if anything)? Tell the manager of the restaurant? Call the police? Shout out loud across the restaurant, stating that there is someone’s baby outside unattended and asking if they know whose baby it is?
3. Would you assume the baby’s parents are eating or working in the restaurant? Would that affect your actions?
4. If the parents are in the restaurant and they identify themselves, what would you do or say (if anything) to them?
5. Would you view the parent’s action here as an example of child neglect? Child abuse? Both child neglect and abuse? Or neither, because it is nobody’s business to begin with except the parents?
The rest of the story…
This short case is based on an actual incident that took place in New York City in the late 1990’s. A Danish couple, visiting the city, were arrested and lost custody of their child for three days because the Department of Children and Families viewed them as negligent parents. However, in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries it is quite customary for parents to leave infants and small children unattended (but in view of parents) in public. This example is intended to reinforce the idea that our laws and policies around child welfare are based on our collective western culture. Because we have so many cultures represented in the United States, it is important to realize that the application of family policy may be experienced quite differently by various groups.
Managerial Economics Q1: Ch 1-What are the total explicit, total implicit, and total economic costs in 2017?
Q1: Ch 1
At the beginning of the year, an audio engineer quit his job and gave up a salary of $ 145,000 per year in order to start his own business, Sound Devices, Inc. The new company builds, installs, and maintains custom audio equipment for businesses that require high- quality audio systems. A partial income statement for Sound Devices, Inc., is shown below
Revenues Revenue from sales of product and services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 970,000
Operating costs and expenses Cost of products and services sold . . . . .. . . . . . 355,000
Selling expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …………………….155,000 Administrative expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,000
Total operating costs and expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 555,000
Income from operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 415,000 Interest expense (bank loan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,000
Legal expenses to start business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,000 Income taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165,000
Net income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 177,000
To get started, the owner of Sound Devices spent $ 100,000 of his personal savings to
pay for some of the capital equipment used in the business. In 2017, the owner of Sound
Devices could have earned a 15 percent return by investing in stocks of other new
businesses with risk levels similar to the risk level at Sound Devices.
a. What are the total explicit, total implicit, and total economic costs in 2017?
b. What is accounting profit in 2017? What is economic profit in 2017?
c. Given your answer in part b, evaluate the owner’s decision to leave his job to start
Sound Devices.
Q4: Ch 2
Evaluate the following statements using graphical analysis. Provide a brief narrative
explanation of your graph to support your evaluation. Make sure the axes and curves in
your graphs are properly labeled.
a. True or false, “When demand for home heating oil increases, a shortage of heating oil
will occur.”
b. True or false, “A decrease in the supply of random access memory (RAM) chips for
personal computers cause a shortage of RAM chips.”
Q5: Ch3
Appalachian Coal Mining believes that it can increase labor productivity and, therefore,
net revenue by reducing air pollution in its mines. It estimates that the marginal cost
function for reducing pollution by installing additional capital equipment is
MC= 70P,
where P represents a reduction of one unit of pollution in the mines. It also feels that for
every unit of pollution reduction the marginal increase in revenue (MR) is
MR= 1,200 −10P.
How much pollution reduction should Appalachian Coal Mining undertake?
Q6: Ch3
Twenty-first Century Electronics has discovered a theft problem at its warehouse and has
decided to hire security guards. The firm wants to hire the optimal number of security
guards. The following table shows how the number of security guards affects the number
of radios stolen per week.
| # of security guards | # of stolen per week |
| 0 | 50 |
| 1 | 30 |
| 2 | 20 |
| 3 | 11 |
| 4 | 7 |
| 5 | 4 |
a. If each security guard is paid $400 a week and the cost of a stolen radio is $50, how many security guards should the firm hire?
b. If the cost of a stolen radio is $50, what is the most the firm would be willing to pay to hire the first security guard?
c. If each security guard is paid $400 a week and the cost of a stolen radio is only $30, how many security guards should the firm hire?
Q7: Ch 3
Bavarian Crystal Works designs and produces lead crystal wine decanters for export to
international markets. The production manager of Bavarian Crystal Works estimates total
and marginal production costs to be
TC = 10,000 + 40Q + 0.0025Q2
and
MC = 40 + 0.005Q
where costs are measured in U. S. dollars and Q is the number of wine decanters
produced annually. Because Bavarian Crystal Works is only one of many crystal
producers in the world market, it can sell as many of the decanters as it wishes for $50
apiece. Total and marginal revenue are
TR = 60Q and MR = 60
where revenues are measured in U. S. dollars and Q is annual decanter production.
a. What is the optimal level of production of wine decanters? What is the marginal
revenue from the last wine decanter sold?
b. What are the total revenue, total cost, and net benefit (profit) from selling the optimal
number of wine decanters?
c. Is the optimal profit in answer b good enough to keep Bavarian Crystal Works in the
market? Please comment on it.
Research Proposal-The rise of nationalism
Research Proposal (5 pages) The rise of nationalism.
CO-1: Analyze the theories and philosophies of government, governance, economy, and civil society.
CO-2: Compare and contrast political elements of representative democracy with other political systems.
CO-3: Evaluate the appropriate information and data used in the social, economic, and political realm.
CO-4: Assess the actors and processes involved in policymaking.
CO-5: Evaluate policy implementation outcomes in various sectors, to include the social, economic, foreign policy and security policy domains.
A formal research proposal shall be prepared in accordance with the standards of the academic discipline. The formal proposal must provide a clear and lucid description of a question or problem and a proposed method of answering the question or solving the problem. Proposal drafting is considered a learning process and helps the students avoid oversights and possible mistakes. The proposal should explain the question or problem to be investigated and convince the research paper professor and department that the question or problem merits investigation. In general, the research proposal should include background information related to the research topic, purpose of the research, and investigatory procedures to be used. The formal proposal should not exceed five (5) pages (proposal title page not included). As well, in addition to the 5-page research proposal is a 5-page annotated bibliography. It should show that the student has read the relevant and recent literature on the subject and it should contain a list of materials consulted during the preliminary stages of research. When the proposed research involves the study of human subjects and/or animals, an outside review and approval of the proposed research is required (see Institutional Review Board).
Research paper preparation entails a partnership between the student and professor who is responsible for directing the intellectual content and proper formatting of the paper. Research paper length and depth of research shall be in accordance with disciplinary standards, but should normally not be less than 50 double-spaced pages of text (at least 12,500 words). Research paper formatting can be Turabian or APA style, but must be consistent throughout. The research paper title page must be in compliance with the requirements for a thesis/research paper title page as shown in Appendix 2, including appropriate online library declarations (see Chapter II). The citation style manual used in the research paper will be Turabian or APA. The student and professor shall coordinate the process for the student to submit and receive feedback on draft paper sections. The student is also encouraged to ask other APUS faculty and professionals and leaders in their field of study to read and provide feedback on draft sections where these faculty members and professionals may have special
The impact of the IOM report on nursing education
Details:
Review the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report: “The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health,” focusing on the following sections: Transforming Practice, Transforming Education, and Transforming Leadership.
Write a paper of 750-1,000 words about the impact on nursing of the 2010 IOM report on the Future of Nursing. In your paper, include:
- The impact of the IOM report on nursing education.
- The impact of the IOM report on nursing practice, particularly in primary care, and how you would change your practice to meet the goals of the IOM report.
- The impact of the IOM report on the nurse’s role as a leader.
Cite a minimum of three references.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a rubric. Students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the criteria and expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.