For a written transcript to the video above, please click here.

Prepare: Critical reading and writing are essential to being a successful student. An important part of being an intentional learner is developing reading and writing strategies that work best for you. There is no “one size fits all” recipe for academic success. The Week Three Instructor Guidance lists strategies to help you become a more intentional reader and writer based on each Learning Pattern.

Critically read Chapter 3 and view the video (above). The video shows the unique thinking and writing processes of individual learners as they approach a college-level assignment.

 Reflect: Since all four Learning Patterns contribute to excellent writing, consider how the Patterns you Avoid are needed just as much as those you Use First. Practice critical thinking as you reflect on the writing challenges Makayla, John, Paul, and Raheem face in Section 3.3.

 Write: After considering the scenario of each learner, address the following:

• For each of the four learners, provide a minimum of three to four sentences of advice for how they could have used their Learning Patterns with intention in each scenario. For example, Makayla was ruled by her Sequence. What would you recommend that she do to overcome her dependence on Sequence when approaching writing tasks?

• List your LCI scores. Based on your own unique Learning Patterns, identify two specific strategies to enhance your critical reading skills and two specific strategies to enhance your critical writing skills. Select strategies presented in Chapter 3 and/or the Week Three Instructor Guidance and explain how you will apply each of the strategies you have identified.

Your initial post should contain a minimum of 250 words.

Respond to Peers: Review your classmates’ posts and respond to at least two, each with a minimum of 50 words. Consider comparing and contrasting the strategies for college-level reading and writing your peer identified with your own Learning Patterns. Could these strategies support your learning preferences? Why, or why not? Provide suggestions for additional reading and writing strategies to help your peers use their Learning Patterns with intention.

Think about it this way…

This discussion is asking you to do four things:

• Read the four learner stories from section 3.3 of your text. Provide advice to each learner that encourages intentional use of their Learning Patterns.
• List two critical reading strategies and two critical writing strategies from Chapter 3 and/or the Instructor Guidance that could help you approach college-level reading and writing with greater intention and include your LCI scores.
• Explain how you will take action on these strategies.
• Respond to at least two of your classmates’ discussion posts. Use the “Response to Peers” to assist you with your reply.

Type a heading for each section (e.g., My Advice for Makayla, John, Paul, and Raheem), and then write the information under each heading in complete sentences. This helps the reader quickly identify each section and helps you know that you have covered all of the requirements for this post.

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Prepare a 700- to 1050-word paper in which you discuss the elements of affirmative action as it applies to public sector and private sector employers and how it interacts with Title VII requirements of Equal Employment Opportunity. Your paper must address, but is not limited to, the following:

• Explain why certain employers would receive an affirmative action plans.
• Explain the actions that must be taken by employers who receive an affirmative action plan.
• Explain the consequences for employers who do not meet the goals of the affirmative action plan.

Include in your paper proper citations for each of these laws, including the week’s reading.

Discuss your findings in class.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

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write a 750-word paper using APA standards that includes discussion of the following:

1. Describe an example of a television program that you believe clearly displays social deviance, and explain why you specifically selected it.
2. In this television program, how are people “labeled” as socially deviating from the expected social norms, and who does this labeling?
3. Analyze the deviance, using terms such as primary deviance, secondary deviance, retrospective labeling, and stigma.
4. Apply Durkheim’s four functions of deviance to the deviant actions in the television program. What purpose(s) does the deviance play?

Week 9 Assignment

Application: Diversity in the Workplace

In this week’s Discussion, you thought about democracy in the workplace. For this Assignment, you will consider how democratic principles in the workplace are related to and might be promoted by diversity. Diversity has different meanings; the particular meaning held by an organization may shape that organization in a variety of ways. Most organizations profess to value diversity in the workforce, and employers view the variety of talents and ideas that a diverse labor pool brings to the job as an economic asset. Diversity may, however, produce more than just economic benefits for an organization. One way to better understand diversity is to think about which aspects of diversity are related to democratic principles. Another way to approach diversity is to look at which democratic principles are promoted in your own organization through diversity. As you consider the concept of diversity, take note of underlying aspects that may advance democracy in the workplace.

To prepare for this Assignment:

• Review the article “A Contingency Approach to Representative Bureaucracy: Power, Equal Opportunities and Diversity” in this week’s Learning Resources. Think about the link between diversity and representative bureaucracy in the workplace.
• Review the article “The Ideal of Diversity in Organizations” in this week’s Learning Resources.
• Consider strategies for advancing diversity in the workplace. Pay particular attention to matters such as individual difference and equality as they relate to diversity in the workplace.
• Reflect on basic democratic principles and consider how they are related to diversity.
• Select at least two democratic principles that you think are promoted by diversity in the workplace and think about how diversity might or does promote them.

The Assignment (1–2 pages):

• Briefly describe the democratic principles that you selected.
• Explain how diversity relates to and promotes the democratic principles you selected.
• Based on your analysis, share insights and draw conclusions about how diversity relates to and promotes democratic principles in the workplace.

Support your Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.

The Closeness Communication Bias

Read the article Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication. Then, write a two-page paper (excluding title and reference pages) in which you do the following:

• Summarize the article.
• Describe a miscommunication you have had with someone close to you simply because you assumed that they understood you? What happened?
• Using course materials, explain how you can make sure that this kind of miscommunication does not happen in the future. Or when it does happen, what could you do to make your communication more clear?

Please use COM200: How to Summarize an Article to assist with the completion of this assignment. Be sure to reference the article and at least one of the other course readings from this week in your paper. This can be your textbook or one of the recommended articles. The paper must be formatted according to APA style. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center.

Please view the video Using the APA Template for guidance on using the template for your assignment.

Need more help?

For guidance on how to approach all of the written assignments in this class, read  Writing a Good Paper. You can also review the  Sample Week One Paper. Please refer it for ideas. Do not copy any of it.

Write a 800- to -1000 word paper on a recent disaster (e.g. Lead in the water, Flint Michigan, Hurricane Katrina or something to that nature) and address the following:

• Give a brief overview of the impacted ecosystem including a description of the wildlife and human populations.
• Give an overview of the disaster. What happened, and what was the primary cause?
• Describe the impact of the disaster to the biodiversity in the ecosystem.
• Describe the role of humans in this disaster.

Include a well-developed introduction and conclusion in your paper. Use academic references and format your paper according to APA standards including in-text citations and references.

Read Decision Point: What Would You Do? Pages 46 and 64.

1. Scenario 1: You are the first person to arrive in your classroom and as you sit down you notice an iPod on the floor underneath the adjacent seat. You pick it up and turn it on. It works fine and even has some of your favorite music listed. You realize that you are the only one in the room and no one will know if you keep it. You see other students entering the room so you place the iPod on the floor next to your belonging. You will have the whole class period to decide what to do.
2. Scenario 2: Instead of finding the iPod, you are a friend who sits next to the person who finds it. As class begins, your friend leans over and asks your advice about what to do.
3. Scenario 3: You are now a student representative on the judicial board at school. The student who kept the iPod is accused of stealing. How would you make the decision about the situation?

Write a 2 page APA style paper discussing the following questions related to the above scenarios:

• What are the key facts that you should consider before making a decision, as either the person who discovered the iPod, the friend, or the judicial board member?
• Is this an ethical issue? What exactly are the ethical aspects involved in your decision?
• Who else is involved, or should be involved, in this decision? Who has a stake in the outcome?
• What alternatives are available to you? What are the consequences of each alternative?
• How would each of your alternatives affect the other people you have identified as having a stake in the outcome?
• Where might you look for additional guidance to assist you in resolving this particular dilemma?

Provide 3-5 APA style references both inline and at the end of the paper to support your analysis. Please write in 3rd person. Note: This is your opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge of the week’s theory linked to personal opinion and outside evidence.

Your paper should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards. Please include citations to support your ideas.

Assignment 2: Creating a Use Case

Due Week 4 and worth 150 points

Refer to the RMO CSMS marketing subsystem shown in Figure 3-11 on page 79-80 of the textbook.

Write a two to three (2-3) page paper in which you:

1. Using Microsoft Visio or an open source alternative such as Dia, create a use case graphic rendering that shows all actors and all use cases for the RMO CSMS marketing subsystem. Note: The graphically depicted solution is not included in the required page length.
2. Provide a narrative describing your diagram that includes:
   1. an overview of the diagram
   2. an analysis of the actors
3. Use at least three (3) quality resources outside of the suggested resources in this assignment. Note:Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, your name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.
• Include charts or diagrams created in Visio or an open source alternative such as Dia. The completed diagrams / charts must be imported into the Word document before the paper is submitted.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Identify system stakeholders and formulate their needs.
• Create a use case based on relating functional requirements.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in systems analysis and design.
• Write clearly and concisely about advanced systems analysis and design topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.