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Needs to be from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald In essence, the research paper is a longer, documented interpretative paper because all literary essays involve the task of interpretation on some level. For our project, you must interpret a novel (Gatsby) in the syllabus. You could focus on a theme, a character, or a literary technique. Study carefully Chapter 53 in The Bedford Introduction of Literature (1694-1710). Make sure you follow the following points: 1.Your research paper needs to be 5-6 pages long (about 1500-1800 words) on the topic that you propose in the proposal, which must be approved by the instructor. If you change your topic after your original one has been approved, you need to do a new proposal for the new topic. 2.The research paper must have an introduction, several body paragraphs (say 5-7), and a conclusion. The introduction must have a lead-in, a thesis, and justification for your topic, and any background information. 3.Each of your body paragraphs should begin with a topic sentence, which states the main idea of the paragraph. The topic sentence is usually not a narrative or descriptive statement, but an assertion of an idea or position. Transitional devices are needed between paragraphs. All your paragraphs should be organized to support the thesis in the introduction. 4.At least three (5) published sources are needed in order for the paper to be evaluated properly. The lack of sources is considered an indication of insufficient research and will seriously affect the quality of your paper. The sources can be newspaper articles, magazine articles, journals, or books. Avoid personal websites or other untrustworthy sources. Examples of good sources include book reviews and author interviews in The New York Times Book Review, biographies and criticism in Contemporary Authors, articles in professional journals such as PLMA, Twentieth-Century Literature, World Literature, and MELUS. 5.Quote sparingly and prepare your quotes. Summarize relevant ideas into concise sentences whenever possible and document them.
After researching and presenting your In-Class Presentation topic, you will develop a “thesis” or central idea, based on what you have learned about the topic. You will do further research related to your topic to help support and define your central thesis. (A thesis statement declares what you believe and what you intend to prove). Discuss your work as it relates to your thesis and also how it relates to the culture and style of the period from which it comes. You may want to compare and contrast the style with earlier or later styles. (Please note there will be many different ways of pursuing the thesis, depending on your topic. If you have questions about this, please consult me for help). You must use examples of works of art that you included in your In-Class presentation as the focus of your paper. It is acceptable and even recommended to reference other works of art from your textbooks and classroom lectures.
1: Describe your two disciplines and what your research topic will be. I realize this is a work in progress. This is a good time to start thinking about your research topic and will allow for feedback from the instructor and students to help finalize your research questions. Part 2: As you continue learning about Interdisciplinary Studies, I want you to think about STEPS 1, 2 and 3 from Chapters 3 and 4 of the Repko and Szostak text and begin applying them to your own research questions. What is the most important part of the interdisciplinary research process? What are some of the problems you may encounter in your research? How can you justify that your problem is worthy of interdisciplinary study? How can mapping help you in your research? Using your text, apply these questions to your own potential research problem.
Length and elements: The complete research paper length will be a total of 5-10 pages. (Do NOT go over the page limit, this does not include your title page, abstract, or references page.) You must include a cover sheet with the title of your paper and your name. After the cover page (but before the body of the paper) you must include an abstract, which is a brief, comprehensive summary of the paper, no longer than 120 words. Finally, references should be listed on a separate page after the body of the paper. Your research paper must be typed and double-spaced on standard-sized paper (8.5″ x 11″), with 1″ margins on all sides. You should use a clear font that is highly readable. APA recommends using 12 pt. Times New Roman font. Include a page header (also known as the “running head”) at the top of every page. Number of references: Your paper should include a minimum of 5 references. Appropriate sources include: (a) research articles from scientific journals, (b) books (may include textbook). You must be able to cite your source according to APA format. Suggested topics: Translanguage, Bilingualism, Multicultural Education, English as a Second Language, Language Acquisition, Poly Directional Education, etc. Type of Research: Choose the type of research you will design. The research design is a plan to answer your research question(s). Your research design may be quantitative, qualitative, mixed, or experimental via survey, interviews, etc.
Overview Current Event: Electronic CircuitContinuous developments in the realm of information systems technology are promulgated in the news media on an almost daily basis. Somewhere out during the ‘wee hours’ of the night, the latest Bill Gates clone is ‘burning the midnight oil’ working to develop another remotely possible concept into an actual productive technology. Managing conflict to boost productivity Conflict and tension are inevitable in high-performing teams, but are they always negative? Learn best practices for healthy debate from our experts. SPONSORED BY MICROSOFT Brian Solis: Well, as you and I have talked about so many times, digital transformation leading into this COVID-19 life event, digital transformation was on everybody’s minds. But it meant a million things to a million different people. What was clear that was that when the pandemic struck, digital transformation itself was digitally disrupted. And you could see almost overnight areas that were exposed in terms of weakness, like remote work, e-commerce. And so essentially, while everybody was scrambling, essentially the keywords were business continuity, I wanted to think productively about this moment in time and what it was going to mean thinking forward. I took a step back and started to just accept that this virus was going to be with us for 12 to 18 months. Until there was a treatment, a universal treatment, and eventually, hopefully a vaccine, that these times were going to be completely new as long as 24 to 36 months from now. As a result, I couldn’t just think about it as the new normal. I wanted to move forward and start thinking about ways to operate in this environment. So I gave it a name, the novel economy, because novel means new and unusual. These are certainly new and unusual times that we don’t have a playbook for, that we don’t have case studies to follow. Essentially, we get to invent forward, and it’s the optimist in me that wanted to help be a voice to put together what could be a construct for moving forward. Thinking beyond just business continuity is looking at, let’s just say that March 1 would be the day that we could start looking at everything from new employee behaviors to customer behaviors. How would we see those insights differently to rebuild, and then also invent and innovate moving forward? I broke those stages down into Survive, which is basically now, moving into Alive, which is the next, let’s say the next 10 to 12 months. Then Thrive, which is somewhere along that time, we also start seeing opportunities for growth, new doors to open up to new possibilities and opportunities. SEE: Extended Sick Day policy (TechRepublic Premium) Then I sort of talked about this, well, on ZDNet, the novel economy is broken out into technology stages. How should we think about making new investments in cloud, in software, in automation, that allows us to be much more agile and to think differently? And then also, business constructs support that new agility in moving forward. And then lastly, it was really a chance, just the human being in me, to cast the conversation in a positive light. Instead of everything being so just bleak and dark and elusive, let’s productively move forward because we have no choice. I talked about the stoic philosophy and how you can’t control life events, but you can control how you react. Karen Roby: How do you see roles in companies like CEO, CIO, and CFO changing? Brian Solis: In any disruptive event, it’s natural to batten down the hatches, control costs, and explore ways to cut costs. And unfortunately, we see this in every level from employees, to assets, to technology. The CFO is essentially in control right now, and rightly so. The thing, though, is that before the pandemic, I used to talk about it in a loving way, of course, this, I called it out-of-touch-ness, which was essentially, executives in many ways focused on shareholder value, on making decisions based on the matrix, or spreadsheets, or visualized data. And we sort of lost the humanity in a lot of this. When you’re driven by numbers, you work toward those numbers. I actually believe that if you put the CFO in control, the CFO’s going to make decisions, of course, based on costs and numbers, like they should. But this isn’t necessarily just a time to say, “OK. We’re going to hold down the fort, cut costs. And then when this all clears, we’re going to come back out stronger than ever,” because we’re not going back to normal. And normal was actually part of the problem to begin with. SEE: Top 100+ tips for telecommuters and managers (free PDF) (TechRepublic) We’re moving in a new direction, and this new direction, this novel economy’s going to be defined by the people who define it. And they’re the ones who are going to be making investments, doubling down on opportunities like understanding customer experience, understanding how to help optimize productivity with the employee experience, and also happiness, and also wellness. And then also looking at ways to invent because in a novel economy that’s new and unusual, we don’t know all of the opportunities for growth, and we have to pay attention to those. For example, I’ve had several conversations with CXOs, who are all talking about: How we think about technology moving forward. Is it a cost center? What’s our digital transformation strategy moving forward? And the best answer I can give is whatever was happening pre-March 1, you have to really look at it through a new lens. The customer is changing right now, and has been since March 1. Employees, when they were all sent home to work from home, everything changed. And that is sowing new behaviors and many other things that it’s sowing that we could talk about in a future conversation. SEE: Digital transformation trends in 2020: What to expect (TechRepublic) But the CFO’s not going to see those things. It’s not going to recognize unless someone within the organization is making the case on behalf of the voice of the customer and the voice of the employee because technology doesn’t have to be a cost center. In fact, if you think about automation for example, we can look at ways to reduce costs. We could free up employees from repetitive tasks to allow them to be more creative, to think differently about the data they have, for example, and apply (artificial intelligence) AI and machine learning to looking for those new opportunities, new processes, etc. Then lastly, when we do that, when we get into the Thrive stage of the novel economy, we can see technology as actually not even a cost center, not even just reducing costs, but actually a revenue generator because once you start opening new doors, I call this sort of the bimodal digital transformation. Let’s optimize infrastructure for operational excellence. Then let’s also invest in business model innovation, so that we can activate greater market share, greater share of wallet, greater mind share, in these new times. Karen Roby: Moving to a work-from-home model nearly overnight has been a real challenge for the enterprise. Brian Solis: This is why technology is more important than ever before, is that we’re seeing opportunities now that we couldn’t see before just because we were so caught up in the day-to-day operations. The same is true also for customers. They have, when you look at this from a psychological perspective, we all have as human beings, a somatic marker in our life now. This is a life event that will be with us forever. And it’ll be connected to deep visceral emotional responses. We’ll talk about one day what we were doing during these times, and how things are different, to our kids and grandkids. And that’s what’s so important to pay attention to because that work from home, we’ve been doing that to some level, but not at the scale. E-commerce, we’ve been doing for I don’t know how long, 20, 25 years. And now it’s all different. I published recently some insights based on Salesforce’s global shopping index that showed how online spending had shifted and how it was going to continue to shift. And e-commerce just was on this. It’s always been growing, but now it was on this trajectory to become a huge percentage of total sales because even as the economy opens up, people are still going to think, “Well, do I really need to go out? Or can I just click here and get what I need?” All of these things, this is why CIOs, CEOs, CFOs, have to pay attention to the reality that truly drives digital transformation is the human side of the story. And this is all changing, so everything that we were doing up until this point, it gives us a strong foundation and experience, of course. But now, this is time for innovation. And this is time for human-centered innovation. SEE: Digital transformation: Why companies need a sense of urgency (TechRepublic) Karen Roby: What would be a little quick snippet, words of advice, if you could kind of summarize, or give us a positive message to end this on, what would you say? Brian Solis: Two quick things: Yesterday, we released a COVID-19 response playbook. Personally, I was moved by it because it’s a blueprint for opening up the economy. And the second part that I want to leave you with is that as we reopen the economy, we have to remember that there’s a live virus still out there. And we have to think differently, and not just differently, but we really do have to think about people, stakeholders, customers, employees, partners, like never before. They have to be front and center of all of the decisions that we make, and realize that this is all new. We are all the architects of the future right now. Whatever we talked about the future of work, the future of retail, the future of business, we’re rewriting it right now. And what a wonderful opportunity. Look, I get it. These are scary, uncertain times. I get it. But certainty has never been guaranteed. Now we have an opportunity to invent the future we’ve always wanted to see. I’m here to help you, and if you need anything, let me know. I want to learn from you, too.
Assignment 2: Performance Management and Valuation The risk analysis work you did in the first assignment was a great start. It helped to paint a picture of where these two companies are in their corporate lifecycles, the threats and opportunities each faces, and the defensibility of their economic moats – a metaphor that Buffett loves to use. In this assignment, you will continue your analysis by comparing key performance management metrics of our two companies used in assignment 1, identifying areas of relative strength and weakness, and suggesting ways that each company could improve, thereby increasing its valuation. To do this, you will examine trends in order to identify variances and comparisons to: (1) establish benchmarks, (2) identify best practices, and (3) look for signs of superior performance. This analysis is critical in determining the value of each company, as well as evaluating whether potential acquisition or merger opportunities exist which could create greater value and synergies than those of operating the companies as separate entities. Instructions To prepare, reread the Morningstar Analyst’s Report and the most recent annual reports for both companies with a particular focus on the Income Statement and Statement of Cash Flows. A. Complete the Assignment 2 Worksheet to compare key performance metrics and ratios for both companies in order to see how performance can be impacted by manipulating certain financial levers. B. Summarize your Analysis and Recommendations by answering the following questions: i. Performance Metrics: a. Which company is a more efficient generator of income? b. Which company is growing faster? c. Using financial health ratios, which company is more profitable? d. Which company has stronger valuation ratios? e. Overall, which is the better run company and why? ii. Merger Synergies: a. If there was an acquisition, which company is the most likely acquirer? Why? b. Would you recommend a merger or acquisition to increase the moat strength of the combined companies? Why or why not? • If you support a merger or acquisition, identify 3 performance metrics that could be improved by a merger and explain how they would be improved. • If you do not support a merger or acquisition, explain your rationale and why the value of each company is best preserved/increased by remaining separate. A. Complete and submit the Assignment 2 Worksheet component of the Workbook (TAB 2, title assignment 2, along with your written work for Part B. B. Format your written responses for Analysis and Recommendation as follows: • Typed, double-spaced, professional font (size 10-12), including headings and subheadings (to identify main topics and subtopics), with one-inch margins on all sides. • References must be included and provide appropriate information that enables the reader to locate the original source. o Application and analysis of course materials and resources is expected. o At least one additional source beyond the course materials must be cited to support your analysis and recommendations. •Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. • The maximum length is 4 pages, excluding your cover page, completed worksheets, and reference list.