•Please completeONE of 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 fromEBSCOhost.
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 inEBSCOhost, 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 fromEBSCOhost 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 fromEBSCOhost. 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 fromEBSCOhost.
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 referencepage.Reference material (data,
dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) must come from sources
such as, scholarly journals found inEBSCOhost, 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).
