Tag: Writing

Requirement: Write effectively as defined by the Army standard – “understood by the reader in a single, rapid reading and is free of errors in substance, organization, style, and correctness in accordance with PL 111-274.”

Choose ONE topic from the following to write a persuasive essay:

1. Leadership Challenges: Read LTC Sam Fishburne, MAJ Joe Dumas, MAJ Benjamin Stegmann, and CPT Jim Burds “Field Manual 3-0 Doctrine Addressing Today’s Fight,” published by the Military Review, dtd. Jan-Feb 2019. Discuss 3 ramifications that the new FM 3-0, Operations (Oct 2017) and the shift to LSCO has on company level leadership in your branch.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/military…

2. Professional Integrity: Read Leonard Wong and Stephen Gerras’ “Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession,” published by the US Army War College Press, dtd. February 2015. Discuss 3 distinct aspects of U.S. Army professionalism in which leaders succeed and/or struggle to maintain their integrity. Then propose at least 1 concrete method of securing internal (within the Army) or external (with the civilian population) trust.

https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pdffiles/pub1250.pd…

3. Subordinate Leader Development: Read Col. (Ret.) Frank Wenzel’s “Developing Leaders,” published in Military Review, dtd. July-August 2015. Discuss 1 area of weakness in U.S. Army subordinate leader development programs, and propose 3 recommended improvements to address that weakness.

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/military-review/Archives/English/MilitaryReview_20150831_art010.pdf4.

Read ADP 6-22, Army Leadership and the Profession, dtd July 2019, Chapters 2-7. Identify and justify one characteristic from the Army Leadership Requirements Model you think is the most important in building and leading company sized teams in today’s ever changing operational environment. Ensure your justification includes specific content (with citation) from Army Doctrine and why that characteristic is important to building and leading company sized teams. Shape your thoughts in a logical order that will persuade the audience that your characteristic is the most important.

The paper must be two to three pages long.

This assignment is worth 70 points.

Write in accordance with the Army writing style following the guidance in AR 25-50, Preparing and Managing Correspondence (Oct 2020).Bibliography AND Endnotes are required. Minimum of 2 references. Title page, endnotes page, and bibliography page do not count towards the length of the paper. Title page, paper format, and references must be in Turabian Style (9th ed.). Substance and style will mirror the Army Writing Style per AR 25-50.

Please see the TRADOC Writing Resources for references https://www.milsuite.mil/book/groups/instructor-wr… and https://www.milsuite.mil/book/groups/student-writi…

Prepare a cost analysis of the annual fundraising activities you plan to hold for your nonprofit. Use the format detailed on page 61 of the Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits text book. Use the notes sections to provide additional details on the events. Include a brief narrative that discusses all the events scheduled for the year.

Resources:

• Effective Fundraising for Non-Profits: Real World Strategies that Work Chapter 3
• Sample on page 61

Create a list of your organizations fundraising assets (please refer to attachment below to get more information about my non-profit organization: Green Life Fund). Provide an asset description and possible fundraising use. Use the format detailed on page 73 of the Effective Fundraising for Nonprofits text book

Resources:

• Effective Fundraising for Non-Profits: Real World Strategies that Work Chapter 3
• Sample on page 73

1. Look at the “application” (referring to the screenshot)

-Should give you an idea of what the essay should be about and the title of the essay

2. It should be an argumentative essay

3. It should have diverse perspectives (aggreging and disagreeing)

4. The sources should be an in-text reference to the source and at the very end as well (reference page)

Assignment:

For Assignment 4, you are to read and answer each question to the case studies at the end of each chapter in this last half of this module (Chapters 10-11).  Each chapter has 1 case study with roughly 3 – 4 questions each.

Consider the hypothetical situation in which you are part of the marketing team of a management consulting firm. Your client is one of the following: 

–   Whole Foods Market, which is facing the challenge of maintaining its identity while incorporating new pricing and institutional strategies being pushed by its new parent company, Amazon. Your firm will be assisting in the development of a new institutional marketing campaign for WFM. 

–  Netflix, which is facing the challenge of being in the shakeout phase of the online streaming industry lifecycle and, therefore, shifting its focus to original content in order to gain a competitive advantage. Still, remaining competitive within the online streaming industry is Netflix’s bread and butter. Choose either WFM or Netflix. Then write a 2-page paper with the following two parts:  

PART 1: Competitive Advantage – conduct some research and prepare the following information for the first page of your paper.

• What is the NAICS code for this company – in other words, what is the company’s primary industry? 

What is this company’s strategy for competitive advantage (cost leadership, differentiation)? According to a credible (and cited) source you found, how well is this company doing when it comes to sustaining competitive advantage, and why? 

Who are two of the primary competitors for this company? How well would you say those two competing companies are doing when it comes to sustaining their competitive advantage? 

• PART 2: Porter’s 5 Forces – make a bullet list of Porter’s 5 Forces for your selected company for the second page of your paper.

?  draw from your own knowledge and one or two sources to make a bullet list of the 5 competitive forces in Porter’s model. 

Research Question: The relationship between gender disparity and the death penalty.

3 Types of Questions for Questionnaire

Attitudes and Beliefs (3 items)

Demographics (4 items)

Past, present, and future (3 items)

(Behaviors related to your variables)

Idealism is expressed in the gadgets we use, in the places where we live and work, and in the media we see in our daily lives. But what do we mean by idealism?

Idealism encourages imagination and attempts to realize a mental conception of beauty, a standard of perfection. The idea of beauty is what matters. Beauty is found in the idea the form represents. From an idealistic perspective, all objects and experiences are representations of the mind.

Carefully read all the sections on this page before you write your post.

The Ancient Ideal of Beauty

Since ancient times, the Western ideal of human beauty was defined by the art of the Greeks and Romans.

The statue known as the Spear Bearer or the Doryphorus (above left) is a Roman copy of ancient Greek original. It’s sculptor, Polykleitos of Argos, wrote a treatise on the perfect proportions of the human form and created this statue as an example. Polykleitos envisioned the human body as a harmonious set of divinely inspired ratios. By studying numerous models and measuring the key ratios such as the size of the head to the size of the body, he arrived at what he thought were the ideal proportions for a human. Typical of Classical art, the figure is in the prime of life, and blemish-free. It is not a portrait of an individual but rather a vision of the ideal.

The Venus de’Medici (above right) is a Roman copy of a fourth-century BCE Greek original by Praxitiles, the best-known sculptor of his time. Its refined profile and modest pose are features of the Greek idealization of human figures. Although nude goddesses were unknown in early periods of Greek art, this figure came to represent a feminine ideal, and has strongly influenced many artworks since that time, down to the feminists of the twentieth century who rebelled against it.

Idealism in Contemporary Design

What about art in our own times? Is the notion of idealism and beauty still relevant today?

Are contemporary artists and designers concerned with idealistic beauty, with the underlying idea the form represents? And if so, where do we get our visions of the ideal today? From art, design, media, or some other realm?

Idealism is not confined to the traditional fine arts, such as painting and sculpture. “Objects of all kinds, from ancient carefully crafted flint knives to today’s personal digital devices, have been conceived to delight the eye as well as to serve more obviously useful functions. Well-designed utilitarian objects and spaces, from spoons to cities, bring pleasure and efficiency into our daily lives. Artists transform objects for daily use by either designing them in new ways or by embellishing them; sometimes both.” (Artforms, p. 20)

Idealism in Product/Industrial Design

Everyday objects such as the Macbook Pro (above) express the idealism of our technological age.

Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs revolutionized the way we think with computers (Links to an external site.). He fused idealism with digital technology. For Jobs, the Mac was the tool of liberation, and he demanded perfection, originality, and human-centered design (Links to an external site.) in every detail of Apple products. Jobs once stated that “by building affordable personal computers and putting one on every desk, in every hand, I’m giving people power. They don’t have to go through the high priests of mainframe – they can access information themselves. They can steal fire from the mountain. And this is going to inspire far more change than any nonprofit.”

Idealism in Architecture/Environmental Design

The Oculus, a transportation hub designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, expresses an idealistic vision of American resilience. It reminds us that, even in the face of devastation, there is hope. 

Located mere feet from the September 11th Memorial and Museum in downtown Manhattan, and a regular destination for visitors to Ground Zero, it takes the shape of a bird, specifically a phoenix, in mid-flight. The symbolism is immediate and you can’t help but feel the power of the idea that underpins the form. The angle of the windows is particularly placed so that every year on the anniversary of the attacks, the sun shines directly through the skylight and illuminates the main hall at 10:28 a.m. (the time of the collapse of the second tower).

Read more about the Oculus (Links to an external site.)

Read about how architecture can help build relationships between people. (Links to an external site.)

Idealism in Graphic/Digital Design

Graphic designers combine art and technology to produce powerful designs that express idealism and promote change. 

Born in Zimbabwe, a former British colony with with apartheid-like discrimination, graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies creates smartly-designed posters that speak truth to power and advocate issues such as human rights, AIDS research, environmental protection, and free speech. In 2002, he embarked on his most well-known project to raise consciousness about the abuse and violations of rights being perpetrated by the corrupt president, Robert Mugabe, and encourage people to vote. During a month of graphic activism called “The Portal of Truth,” he created graphic commentaries every day, for 30 days, until the eve of the elections, and distributed them by email. The poster, above, depicts a member of Mugabe’s ruthless militia, trained by North Korea, and distinguishable by their red berets.

reflecting on the content of chapter 3.  

What surprised you most? What confused you most?  Why?

Describe in detail two major points you learned from this chapter?  Use your own words to summarize those sections of the chapter and explain why they seem important learning points for you.

1. Share two or three questions or subjects you find potentially interesting in the realms of writing, reading, and language. Explain why you may find these potentially interesting. 

Respond to the following

Post 1

The main knowledge I learned in this chapter is to research problems and collect data, which is of great help to me. By reading the content of the article, I can know that collecting the data of the problem is of great help to our research. There are many explanations in the book that can help us. When we study a paper, we usually need to look for a lot of arguments in the paper to help us explain our answer, and looking for arguments is the process of collecting data. Many people may think that collecting data is very time consuming and tiring, but it is very useful for us to understand the article in depth.Studying spatial outline can help us learn the method of studying problems better. Develop a complete outline by establishing a center and going through three steps. These steps include outlining topics, establishing questions, gathering data, and so on. What we use most in our research is collecting data, which is the most important step. Data ensures the accuracy of our questions, and collecting data through frameworks makes it much easier. When we don’t have goals, we can’t know what data we need and we can’t find useful data.I was surprised by the importance attached to data in books. I used to care less about collecting data when I was researching problems. I tend to look for data in the main points, but it’s easy to miss information. Sufficient data is an important resource to support our answers. The viewpoints on data collection and the formulation of research questions in the article are the most important ones in my opinion. This helps us stay on a purposeful path rather than being unable to find our way. The heart of the research problem is that we seek answers, and finding the answers we want is very exciting. Data is the backbone that helps us to make our answers more complete and coordinated. What’s potentially interesting is that we all have this problem in our own lives, where we create research questions and find data. We come across something interesting as we read, but we are eager to find some details. These details are the kind of data we need to collect, which is common in fiction. We also need to build data in different places when we write, so that people can better analyze the questions after formulating them. A good piece of writing needs a lot of data and details.

Post 2 

After reading Chapter 3 of Elizabeth Wardle’s “Participating In Conversational Inquiry About writing”, I learned that our conversational inquiry need to formulate research questions, create research spaces, collect and analyze data, and share your research, which is very important. We can make a great help to our conversational inquiry, if we can learn and use these points well. I think the main points of this chapter about the conversational inquiry are very important and worthy of our study, because they can give us a good help in researching problems in the future. However, while reading this chapter, I also encountered some surprises or confusing points.    For the point of confusion, I think it is the example of “Burkean parlor” at the beginning of this chapter. I can understand this term as a party, where a group of people gather in small groups and talk about various controversial topics that interest them. The author said that many people just hear an interesting conversation and then join the group, and when you speak, some people leave the conversation and several new people join. I am very confused about this, but after thinking about it, I think such groups are very common in life. For example, we saw some controversial topics on the Internet. We left our opinions in the comment section and newcomers joined them. The surprising point in this chapter for me is the power of databases. Almost every research field has at least one good database. Some databases contain work from multiple fields, not just one field. If we can use the database well, it will be of great help to us.    As for the “Formulating a Research Question” and “Telling Your Story: Sharing Your Research” mentioned in this chapter, I think these two points are very important. The author tells us the steps of conducting a conversational inquiry, but these two points are about how to tell in the beginning and at the end I think they are more important than the others. Regarding “Formulating a Research Question”, curiosity and discord are mentioned. If you are not interested in what you see around you or personal experience, if you are not curious, it is more difficult to notice or ask research questions. Research problems usually stem from some kind of itching, disharmony, or feeling wrong. These are the beginnings of our problems. Only when we have these two factors can we develop problems and think about if and research.Another point, “Telling Your Story: Sharing Your Research” is also very important. In the spirit of true conversational inquiry, we should share with friends or teachers in the process, get their feedback, consider their suggestions, and write more in response.    For questions or topics that may be interesting in our writing, reading, and language fields, what I can think of is gun control, or some controversial news. These can be good topics because everyone has their own opinions on controversial topics and how to get others to accept your opinions is a very interesting process.