Category: Writing

Assessment Description

If an organization is not prepared for change, then any change initiative is likely to fail. Therefore, to increase the probability of a successful change initiative, leaders need the ability to determine if an organization is ready to implement change.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Instructors will be using a grading rubric to grade the assignments. It is recommended that learners review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment in order to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for specific guidelines related to doctoral level writing. The Manual contains essential information on manuscript structure and content, clear and concise writing, and academic grammar and usage.
• This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.
• You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Directions:

Write a paper of 1,200-1,500 words that discusses how to engage employees in the change process and how to benchmark the progress of a change initiative. Include the following in your paper:

1. An analysis of the factors used to determine if change is needed in a given organization.
2. A discussion of how to determine if an organization is structurally ready to support change leading to a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and adaptation.
3. A critique of several tactics that can be used to engage employees in the change process.
4. An evaluation of the effects of change on individual, social, financial, and corporate concerns.

Throughout Writing 10, we have been practicing basic composition techniques, with an eye towards clear organization, description, and definition, the essential skills which will inform all of your writing. The final readings and assignment for this class are designed to help you apply these skills to explaining conceptual and abstract material, in preparation for Writing 20s focus on argument and persuasion.

Consider an ism. This can be a single well-established, definable condition, such as cannibalism, terrorism, or patriotism, or a belief system, such as Catholicism, nihilism, or racism, or a broader concept such as symbolism or idealism. Your topic doesnt actually have to end in -ism — xenophobia, globalization, or pornography might all be acceptable topics for this essay. The intention here is that you limit the scope of your essay to a single condition, belief, or concept. You may choose a topic related to your classwork, major, or interests (such as ethnocentrism, scientific method, or feminism), but you need not do so. Write a FOUR to SIX page essay defining your topic, its constituent parts, related practices or beliefs, history (if applicable), rationale, and function. Your essay should be objective, not judging the topic either positively or negatively, but presenting it for the consideration of your audience. This essay should be entirely written in third-person, not the first-person perspective youve been allowed to use up to this point in the class. Even if you have personal experience or expertise in your topic, that should not be acknowledged in your essay. As always, follow the stylistic guidelines in the syllabus.

Special note: You may find it useful to consult some basic reference works (encyclopedias, etc.) for an overview of your topic. If you do so, you *must* cite any such sources correctly, using the format outlined in the Saint Martins Guide.

Assessment Description

If an organization is not prepared for change, then any change initiative is likely to fail. Therefore, to increase the probability of a successful change initiative, leaders need the ability to determine if an organization is ready to implement change.

General Requirements:

Use the following information to ensure successful completion of the assignment:

• Instructors will be using a grading rubric to grade the assignments. It is recommended that learners review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment in order to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
• Doctoral learners are required to use APA style for their writing assignments. The APA Style Guide is located in the Student Success Center.
• Refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association for specific guidelines related to doctoral level writing. The Manual contains essential information on manuscript structure and content, clear and concise writing, and academic grammar and usage.
• This assignment requires that at least two additional scholarly research sources related to this topic, and at least one in-text citation from each source be included.
• You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Class Resources if you need assistance.

Directions:

Write a paper of 1,200-1,500 words that discusses how to engage employees in the change process and how to benchmark the progress of a change initiative. Include the following in your paper:

1. An analysis of the factors used to determine if change is needed in a given organization.
2. A discussion of how to determine if an organization is structurally ready to support change leading to a culture of continuous learning, improvement, and adaptation.
3. A critique of several tactics that can be used to engage employees in the change process.
4. An evaluation of the effects of change on individual, social, financial, and corporate concerns.

its all in the files get me an A+ and dont make it sound AI. Base youself on the readings I attatched as it says on the instructions.

Writing Assignment #3 The Multiple-Source Synthesis Essay: Literature Review Summary of Assignment Task: The multiple-source essay asks you to synthesize the arguments of at least 10 sources Length: 2000-3000 words Format: APA Sources: a total of at least 10 sources, all of which should be from scholarly journals or credible trade journals. You should find your sources through library searches. If you cite sources from websites or popular journals, these sources should be in addition to the 10 sources you have cited from scholarly or trade journals. Topic: Please use the same topic that you used for writing assignments #1 and #2. It is recommended that you focus on or expand on the essay that you wrote for writing assignment #2. You will continue with the topic you have selected and will conduct additional searches in the library databases, hopefully, focusing the topic more, and determining the 10 or more sources to use in this essay. Please note that this is a review of the literature on a topic. It is not a persuasive essay using sources to support a point. Rather it is an overview of the current research on a topic. Integration of Sources: At least eight sources must be cited in the body of the essay. You may cite sources in your introduction to help you define terms, and you may cite sources in your conclusion to help you direct the reader to further inquiry. However, the body of the essay should synthesize at least 8 sources. Strategies in Developing the Topic for this Essay Up to this point in the semester, you have completed an annotated bibliography on your chosen topic. You have also incorporated and synthesized six sources into writing assignment #2. The work you have completed for these assignments provides a solid foundation for writing assignment #3. In this assignment, you will synthesize the ideas of at least 10 sources in a synthesis essay, or literature review. For your annotated bibliography, you selected a topic based on your interests and, potentially, your major. You constructed a list of five references and summarized and critically analyzed them in 150-200 words each. You then completed the the six-source essay and synthesized sources. Through this process, you may have seen patterns in the scholarly literature in the topic on which you conducted research. For example, consider the following examples: You may have researched studies in criminal justice and found that there are varying opinions on how to respond to criminal behavior among youth. You may have researched studies in psychology and found that counseling strategies for victims of domestic abuse tend to fall into four categories. You may have researched articles on gerontology and found studies that answered three basic questions on how older adults respond to training for physical performance. You may have researched articles on environmental management and found studies on climate change. You noticed that various demographic factors influence whether individuals believe in climate change and, if so, whether they believe it is caused by human activity. In the synthesis essay, you will focus your research efforts in a particular area, as a response to what you found while writing the annotated bibliography and in constructing the four-source and six-source essays. You will then conduct more research and synthesize your findings in this literature review. Please note that the annotated bibliography, the four-source essay, and the six-source essay represent a journey in your research. You might decide to disregard several of the articles you analyzed in the critical annotated bibliography or in the following two essays because they do not speak to the specific area on which you have decided to write your multiple-source literature review. You might select one article that you analyzed in the critical annotated bibliography, look up the articles cited in that article, and snowball your research in that way. In other words, this process is a recursive one. You might find reasons to hone in on and narrow your topic even further after you have written the annotated bibliography. For these reasons, you are strongly encouraged to write on the same general topic on which you wrote writing assignment #3. You might focus the topic more for writing assignment #4. Or you might expand on the topic for writing assignment #4. How to organize the multiple-source essay: You will divide the essay into categories. Each category will be labelled with a heading. For you to see this concept with a real-life example, you can access a sample synthesis or literature review from a psychology student by clicking here, or you can find it in in Week 7 Content/Resources under PSYCHSample_LitReview. The student authors her paper on the following topic: Emotional Eating: The Perpetual Cycle of MoodFood Influence. She her literature into the following categories, which are used as headings throughout the paper: Influence of Mood on Eating Behavior Gender Differences Influence of Eating Behavior on Later Moods Chronic Stress Response Network Notice how she synthesizes and integrates the research into the distinct categories, labeled by headings. Strategies in Developing Categories When you have focused on your topic, determine how you will divide the literature. In other words, consider the following examples we described above: You may have researched studies in criminal justice and found that there are varying opinions on how to respond to criminal behavior among youth. You might divide the paper as follows: Introduction Body Category 1: A view on responding to criminal behavior. Category 2: B view on responding to criminal behavior. Category 3: C view on responding to criminal behavior. Category 4: D view on responding to criminal behavior. Conclusion You may have researched studies in psychology and found that counseling strategies for victims of domestic abuse tend to fall into four categories. You might divide the paper as follows: Introduction Body Category 1: A counseling strategy for victims of child abuse Category 2: B counseling strategy for victims of child abuse Category 3: C counseling strategy for victims of child abuse Category 4: D counseling strategy for victims of child abuse Conclusion You may have researched articles on gerontology and found studies that answered three basic questions on how older adults respond to training for physical performance. You might divide the paper as follows: Introduction Body Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Conclusion You may have researched articles on environmental management and found studies on climate change. You noticed that various demographic factors influence whether individuals believe in climate change and, if so, whether they believe it is caused by human activity. You might divide the paper as follows: Introduction Body Political affiliation and its impact on belief in climate change Socio-economic status and its impact on belief in climate change Religious and other influences on belief in climate change Conclusion Point of view For this essay, you will use third-person point of view. Please do not use first person point of view (e.g., I, me, we) in writing this essay. In addition, please do not use second-person point of view (you or your) in writing this essay. For example, instead of Smith argues that, as a director, you have a duty to coordinate cybersecurity efforts… you would write, Smith argues that directors have a duty to coordinate cybersecurity efforts… APA Style The paper should be formatted in APA style. The link APA 7th edition example student paper from Week 3 will be a helpful resource. In summary, you should observe the following: Use one-inch margins. Double space. Use size 12 Times New Roman font. Include a running head. Include page numbers. Include a title page. Include a References page on which you list the articles in APA style Do not include an abstract. This paper is not long enough to warrant an abstract. Submitting the assignment: You will submit a first draft of the essay to the assignment folder. The first draft will not be graded. The instructor will provide comments to it. After receiving comments from the instructor, you will submit a revised draft. The final draft will be graded. Helpful Resources Graff, G. and Birkenstein, C., They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing with Readings. This chapter in in the e-reserves of our class. It mentions various techniques to apply in stating what an author said and your response to the author. It is recommended that you read that chapter so that you might apply these techniques to this essay. please recreate the assignment above the professor gave feedback about the rough draft i submitted which is in the attachment and said it was too short. he would like the assignment to be between 2000-3000 words just the body count alone. Not including spaces or indents nor the cover or refrence page. you can use the attachment as information to create a much longer and better essay

please go off of the attached paper my professor said it was good but it was too short he wants the body of the essay to be about 2200 words not including the title or refrence page