Please completeONEof the following assignments,
incorporating ideas and concepts from the week’s lecture and/or articles.
Please feel free to incorporate outside resources as well. When submitting your
assignment, please indicate which of the three options you have chosen. For
Options 2 and 3, please make sure to double space your papers.
Option 1: Get Creative
Design and format a 10 – 15 slide
Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on one of the learning objectives found in
the Getting Started – This Week’s Activities folder for this week. The
requirements below must be met for your presentation to be accepted and graded:
·
Design and format each slide
for a presentation, see example below.
·
The notes sections must total a
minimum of 250 words for the entire presentation. Use these sections to
explain and support information provided on your slides.
·
Include a cover slide and
reference slide (these slides do not count toward the 10 – 15 slide
requirement).
·
At least 60% of your paper must
be original content/writing.
·
No more than 40% of your
content/information may come from references.
·
Use at least two references
from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost. Text book,
lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted
toward the two reference requirement.
·
Identify sources on slides that
contain reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words,
values, etc.) and list them on a reference slide.
Reference material (data, dates,
graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must be from sources like
scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, online newspapers such as The Wall
Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo
Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable.
A detailed explanation of how to cite a source using APA can be found here (link).
Download a PowerPoint examplehere
Option 2: News Flash
Choose an article from EBSCOhost
that relates to at least one of the learning objectives found in the Getting
Started – This Week’s Activities folder for this week. You must summarize
the article, and explain the connection between the article and at least one
learning objective. Clearly state the learning objective(s) in the
introduction.
The requirements below must be met for your News Flash to be accepted and
graded:
·
Write between 500 – 750 words
(approximately 2 – 3 pages) using Microsoft Word.
·
Attempt APA style, see example
below.
·
Use font size 12 and 1”
margins.
·
Include a cover page and
reference page.
·
At least 60% of your paper must
be original content/writing.
·
No more than 40% of your
content/information may come from references.
·
Include at least one external
reference other than the article being summarized, preferably from EBSCOhost.
Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but
are not considered an external reference.
·
Identify reference material
(data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the body of
the paper and list them on a reference page.
Reference material (data, dates,
graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must come from sources such as
scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, online newspapers such as, The Wall
Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo
Answers, eHow, etc. are not acceptable.
A detailed explanation of how to cite a source using APA can be found here (link).
Download a News Flash examplehere
Option 3: Traditional Paper
Research and discuss the basic
theories of motivation as well as a description of what they are.
The requirements below must be
met for your paper to be accepted and graded:
·
Write between 500 – 750 words
(approximately 2 – 3 pages) using Microsoft Word.
·
Attempt APA style, see example
below.
·
Use font size 12 and 1”
margins.
·
Include cover page and
reference page.
·
At least 60% of your paper must
be original content/writing.
·
No more than 40% of your content/information
may come from references.
·
Use at least two references
from outside the course material, preferably from EBSCOhost. Text book,
lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted
toward the two reference requirement.
Reference material (data, dates,
graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must be identified in the
paper and listed on a reference page.Reference material (data, dates, graphs,
quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must come from sources such as,
scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, online newspapers such as The Wall
Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as Wikis, Yahoo
Answers, eHow, etc. are not acceptable.
A detailed explanation of how to cite a source using APA can be found here (link).
