Assignment

1. You are the middle manager of a company, and you recently received news that your company lost a major contract. Such a loss will directly affect your department by reducing the staff by 25%. You have six months before the layoffs take place. Your responsibility is to implement a program that will enhance the employees' careers by making them more marketable. While this is an unfortunate occurrence, it does occur. Great leaders take the necessary steps. Discuss your ideas for this type of program. What does it need to include? What does the program need to offer employees? How would you communicate this to your employees? Your response must be at least 100 words in length.

2. This question involves explaining how professional etiquette can impact professional relationships. Consistently displaying proper etiquette is a reflection of one's organization and can build or destroy business relationships. For this question, explain the importance of social behavior and share an example of a situation you have witnessed where someone's behavior affected one or more professional workplace relationships-feel free to include positive or negative examples. Your response must be at least 250 words in length.

3. This question involves explaining how a professional can proactively approach career changes. Entrepreneurship remains vital to small business development. With 96.1% of all businesses categorized as a small business, the likelihood of you either being an entrepreneur or working for one is extremely high. For this essay, visit sba gov and view the characteristics of and opportunities available for an entrepreneur. After reviewing the possibilities, state whether or not you have an interest in entrepreneurship. Then, explain how you could use the information on sba gov to proactively approach career changes. Remember, your essay can take the position of actually being an entrepreneur or at least working with an entrepreneur. Your response must be at least 250 words in length.

4. Think about your past experiences with writing (which may include the experiences you have had in this course). What advice about writing did you find most helpful? Why? Please explain the context that led to this advice. You may also tell more than one story about your writing experiences.

The objective of this discussion is to consider the advice of other writers and how we can always improve our writing by listening to others. Further, you are sharing that advice with your reader by reflecting upon the experience.

Remember, as always, that this writing should be a positive and constructive experience for everyone. The idea is that you reflect upon the process so that you understand it, understand yourself as a new student writer, and understand the challenges and successes you experience.Your response must be at least 100 words in length.

5. The Body Revision

Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to revise the body of your academic argumentative research paper, which you created the previous draft Description: In this assignment, you will revise the three to four body paragraphs that wrote in the previous draft. The following requirements must be included in the assignment: Body Paragraphs: You will revise the body section of your paper based on feedback received from your professor in Unit VI. This section will include three to four paragraphs comprised of five to seven sentences each. Each paragraph should be between 150-200 words. At a minimum, this portion of the paper should be 450-600 words (for three to four paragraphs); a body section of this length will meet the minimum requirements of the assignment. Revisions must be substantive and should be made in accordance with the direction given by the professor's feedback. The following components must be included in each body paragraph (in the following order).

Sentence 1: Point/reason sentence: This topic sentence will contain one of your reasons.

Sentence 2: Explanation: In this sentence, you will provide information that further develops or explains Sentence 1.

Sentence 3: Illustration: This sentence introduces evidence that supports the reason that is presented in Sentence 1.

Sentence 4: Explanation of the illustration: Because the evidence does not necessarily stand on its own, you need to provide explanation so that the reader will understand how you interpreted the evidence to come to your reason.

Sentences 5-6: Second illustration and explanation (optional): You may choose to include a second piece of evidence that is then followed by an explanation.

Last Sentence: Transition: In this sentence, you will signal to the reader that you will be moving on to another point in the next paragraph.

You do this to ease the movement from one point to another. Be sure to include the introduction and literature review you have already created and revised. Use APA conventions to cite and reference all sources used to support your argument.