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Item 2 of the Portfolio: Annotated Bibliography (due in week 4)
This week, you will submit an annotated bibliography for two (2) of your sources for the final project paper. Both sources should be scholarly (peer-reviewed) and from the APUS Library. Read the instructions for upcoming assignments so you will have a good idea of sources you might need.
Each source (listed in alphabetical order) should have a complete Works Cited or References entry for the citation style you are using, as well as an annotation, which should be a paragraph or two summarizing and evaluating the article. Information about the author’s credentials and publisher’s credibility may be included. Value of the sources to the final project paper should be part of the annotation. (Summaries/evaluations under one hundred words each will be considered under-developed.)
Write in third person only. It’s a good idea to include a signal phrase, direct quote or paraphrase, and a parenthetical citation within each summary.
To format your Works Cited or References entries, you may use the library cite button discussed in the week four Lessons. Include the article’s web link (the https address—not just the doi) at the end of your Works Cited entry. Just copy and paste it from your web browser, if it is not already included. Examples are shown in the attached Template (which you will download) and Sample (which is attached to show you an example of what a good submission looks like).
Submit your assignment as a Word document attached to the assignment link so it can be automatically processed through Turnitin. Use the template provided. You can save the template with a title like this: Your Name_Annotated Bib.
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Category: Agriculture
I want the essay to be a report type essay with a lot of examples and processes involved in the breaking down of the chemical present in the compounds to be highlighted and shown in the essay.
Research proposal topic effects of external parasites on domestic livestock in South Africa, need Methods and Materials and the articles sources we found including Reference list
Competency
In this project, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following competency:
Determine how professional practice can be informed by the transfer of learning
Scenario
You work for Quantigration, Inc., a semiconductor manufacturing plant headquartered in the United States. Capitalizing on advancements in its product, Quantigration has aggressively expanded and acquired fabrication plants and workers around the world. With new employees joining every week, workers are both excited and nervous about the new opportunities and changes in responsibilities.
Because there is a shortage of employees in this industry, management wants to increase retention. To do this, they want to improve morale and foster good group dynamics. Your manager, Gregory, has asked you to make some initial recommendations. You check your email and see that he sent you this email late on Friday:
Date: Fri 3/16/2018 9:17 p.m.
From: Russo, Gregory
Subject: Morale and Employee Satisfaction
Attachments: employee_morale_research.pdf
Hi,
As I mentioned to you the other day, Quantigration is growing very quickly. I just did some quick calculations, and if things continue at the same pace, we will triple our workforce in four months!
Thank you for agreeing to help with the program; the board of directors wants us to keep employee satisfaction high. Morale is a top priority, since it will help us with retention. With so many employees joining the company, new departments forming, and people taking on new roles, we want everyone to get to know their coworkers. I’ve given your name to Nathan, a recent hire in the fulfillment department, who’s going to be training everybody on the shipping and receiving software. As a long time Quantigration employee, I’d like you to help him get settled and answer any questions he has.
I’d also like you to report back with a briefing about how to improve morale. The board has made it clear that they want any changes to be based only on research, so I’ve put together a few articles for you to review. But I’m having trouble convincing the board that our personal experiences are also important and need to be taken into account. Can you put together a document with your thoughts on how past experiences can apply to new situations? I’m having difficulty finding the right way to express this idea.
Gregory
After meeting Nathan in person, he followed up with this email:
Date: Mon 3/19/2018 10:42 a.m.
From: Morten, Nathan
Subject: All these new folks…
Good morning,
Thanks for stopping by and saying hello! I’ve been really busy getting to know everyone here. In fact, I just got another new group of employees assigned to train on the shipping and receiving software. That’s on top of the two departments I got last week!
I just don’t know how to stay positive through all these acquisitions. There are so many new names; it’s hard to keep track of them all. I’m having a hard time wanting to come in to work in the morning. Have you ever felt this way?
Nathan
Directions
Part 1: Email
First, write a 200- to 300-word email back to Nathan.
Relate your own personal experiences to his professional situation.
Think about what has motivated you in the past.
Consider a time in your professional or personal life when you didn’t feel motivated. What about the situation made it hard to feel invested? What did you do to push through?
What did you learn that could apply to Nathan’s situation?
Part 2: Briefing Document
Read the articles that Gregory sent to you, and prepare a 800- to 1,000-word briefing document.
Explain how research has informed your approach to the issue of employee morale.
How are other companies approaching the issue of employee morale?
What other kinds of research could you use to further improve the plan?
Describe how past experiences can apply to the new challenge Quantigration faces.
Think about your email to Nathan. Can the situation and strategies you described be applied to Quantigration?
What other experiences have you had that might apply?
Describe how research and personal experiences work together to inform decisions.
How do you compare personal experience with research to reach new conclusions?
Did the information in the research change the way you perceived the problem?
What to Submit
Every project has a deliverable or deliverables, which are the files that must be submitted before your project can be assessed. For this project, you must submit the following:
Email
Write a 200- to 300-word email that outlines what motivates you. Be sure to consider a time in your professional or personal life and how it could apply to Nathan’s situation. Briefing Document
Write a 800- to 1,000-word document that examines research on employee morale: Use the Employee Morale Research that Gregory has compiled for the board of directors to inform this briefing. Make sure that you summarize the findings and relate them to your own experiences.
RNR 1001
Final paper
For your final assignment (30% of your total class grade), you will turn in a 5–10-page paper (not including references), 12 pt font, 1.5 spaced, normal margins, submitted in Microsoft word format through Moodle. You may organize with headings or sections if you like and/or put a space between paragraphs but don’t overdo it. Please include a title but do not make it its own title page. This paper must include a minimum of 4 legitimate resources (online sites and documentaries are fine) that must be included in your references.
This assignment will integrate all of the topics covered in this class. You will select a current event related to an issue in conservation specifically addressing each of the topics covered in this course (see below). We will go through many examples of this in class. You will integrate your knowledge gained in class and perform your own research to briefly describe the ecology, history, human elements (population, culture, ethics, economic status, etc.), threats to biodiversity and natural resources, global, local, and personal significance of the place or resource, and evaluate the likely future of this resource, including current practices, policies, and management therein. The primary goal of this assignment is to demonstrate your learned proficiency in global learning through the course material covered herein. Specifically, this assignment will evaluate your ability to 1) appreciate and understand cultural diversity, 2) understand global systems, ecology, and biodiversity, and 3) apply your knowledge in contemporary global contexts.
Essentially, this paper must address the 1) ecology/biology, 2) cultural and ethical factors that surround or drive the issue, and 3) what global challenges and processes influence your issue. Linking the ecology and science to cultural behaviors and assessing the future (climate change) of this issue is critical for getting maximum points on this assignment.
Understanding Global Systems: In this portion, you must describe the ecology or biology pertaining to the conservation issue using scientific language. This may include details of an ecosystem, a biological process, or various ecological characteristics of the species that are relevant to this particular issue. This is where you will rely heavily on what you have learned in the ecology section of this course. So, to get top marks in this section, you must explain the system and/or species of interest in detail and link the way that this system/species functions to your conservation issue. For example, we will discuss how the removal or addition apex predators in ecosystems can cause trophic cascades. If this were your conservation issue “Removal of red wolves along the east coast”, or something, you would describe something about the species biology (why is it an apex predator and what is an apex predator), where this species occurs (describe the ecosystem) and what it does in it’s ecosystem (fundamental and realized niche), and how it specifically contributes to the conservation issue (removal or addition of this species completely alters ecological structure and function). This is the science heavy part of your paper.
Cultural Diversity and Ethics: There is always a human aspect to all of the current events and conservation issues we will discuss. Cultural behaviors and ethical attitudes directly impact population trends, consumption of resource, attitudes towards environmental resources, and use and management of environmental resources.
Consider why different cultures use different resources differently, and how this contributes to degradation of habitat, loss of species, pollution, ecosystem destruction, etc.
What are the ethics and differences in ethics involved? Try to be objective and see all sides.
Describe the culture or cultures most specifically tied to this current event or resource and go to into detail regarding how these cultural behaviors contribute to these patterns of use. For example, if you were to select “Increased Plastic Pollution by Developed Nations” you would detail the cultural aspects that have led to increased consumption and pollution in this manner, including population trends and specific patterns of consumption.
Identify any sources of controversy that arise from cultural and ethical differences. See the Prairie restoration article on Moodle. Often, there are cultural and ethical differences involved in the creation of a conservation issue.
Identify the primary and underlying drivers for this conservation issue (review the Great Acceleration lecture and notes from the beginning of class). Once these have been identified you can tease out cultural behaviors and global patterns (for the next section) that are meaningful for your issue.
Applying Knowledge in Contemporary Global Contexts: Here, your task is to make sense of this issue in a global context by integrating the cultural and ecological information you have obtained. This section must include some discussion of climate or global change (there are other types of global change besides climate, but it’s all linked), and, specifically, the global, societal, and individual contributions to climate change. This relates to culture, ethics, and behavior. Consider that even if a conservation issue is local in origin (say, an invasive species in south Louisiana), there are global implications to this issue (as we have become a global economy and as this global economy has changed this has also influenced the spread of invasive species). Using the ecological and cultural information as background, this is where you will tie it all together and describe the current situation regarding this conservation issue. Include challenges and solutions to solving this problem on a global scale.
Some critical questions/topics to address here are:
How has global climate change, or global impacted this issue or vice versa?
How have the primary and underlying drivers identified in your cultural section created changes to earth system trends and socio-economic trends?
Is this problem local or global in origin? What is the scale of impacts? How do these problems/issues that are local in origin manifest in global ecosystems? How might this particular issue impact your life?
What are the challenges in “solving” this problem or that have contributed to this current event being a conservation issue?
Are there current policies or practices being discussed to solve this issue? What would you do? What would you recommend and why?
Grammar, writing, syntax: This paper must be clear, concise, well written, and include citations.
Consider each paragraph carefully. Paragraphs should begin with a topic sentence that tells the reader exactly what the following material is going to be about. Everything that follows in that paragraph is extra. This is the opposite of creative writing and is reflective of technical writing techniques.
Minimize extraneous wording.
Minimize the use of quotations. Instead, reframe the findings of your source in your own words and reference that source in text. Citations must be referenced in the text and includes in a references or citations section at the end of the document. So,
Understanding conservation issues in current global conditions requires and in depth understanding of science/ecology and cultural behaviors (DeMarco 2021).
References:
DeMarco, K. 2012. Conservation of Renewable Natural Resources. Louisiana State University, link to lecture.
See the Citation pdf on Moodle for more details. The format doesn’t have to be perfect, but I need to be able to find the source and understand where your findings in your paper came from.
The rubric below is specifically how you will be graded for incorporating each of these themes, or dimensions to your paper.
electricity is needed in rural places by farmers so that they can now by drying machines to dry thier products
Select and Read the following articles/clips from 2017 – 2019 (choose at least one article from each year)
(Links are in chronological order from oldest to newest so you can read/see the progression of the issue)
2017:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/09/22/552803465/arkansas-defies-monsanto-moves-to-ban-rogue-weedkiller
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/07/555872494/a-wayward-weed-killer-divides-farm-communities-harms-wildlife?.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/13/557607443/with-ok-from-epa-use-of-controversial-weedkiller-is-expected-to-double?
2018
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/11/01/662918255/the-epa-says-farmers-can-keep-using-weedkiller-blamed-for-vast-crop-damage
2019
Arkansas Plant Board passes emergency rule for the use of dicamba
https://canvas.cpp.edu/courses/81732/discussion_topics/781804?module_item_id=3377959
https://www.rfdtv.com/dicamba-still-an-issue
2021
https://www.farmprogress.com/farm-business-planning/epa-stops-short-of-promising-dicamba-use-in-2022
Task(s) for your Discussion Board Post:
Task 2: Analyze & Reflect
Consider the following – Please number your responses
(By the end, you will have 3 DIFFERENT ETHICAL THEORIES TOTAL).
Choose 1 ethical theory that defends individual state’s (like Arkansas) decision to ban the use of Diacamba.
Choose 1 ethical theory that defends the EPA’s decision with respect to regulating the use of Diacamba.
Can a middle ground be reached for future use and application of Dicamba? What 1 ethical theory can help bring both sides together? Explain.
In the hustle and bustle of our modern lives, it’s easy to forget the quiet majesty that surrounds us every day: the beauty of nature. From the gentle rustle of leaves in the wind to the vibrant hues of a sunset painting the sky, nature offers an endless array of wonders that captivate the soul and nourish the spirit.
One of the most enchanting aspects of nature is its ability to inspire awe and wonder. Whether standing in the shadow of a towering mountain peak, gazing out across a vast expanse of ocean, or wandering through a dense forest teeming with life, there is something inherently humbling about being in the presence of such grandeur. In these moments, we are reminded of our place in the world, connected to something much larger and more profound than ourselves.
But the beauty of nature is not just found in its vast and dramatic landscapes. It can also be found in the smallest of details – the delicate petals of a flower, the intricate patterns of a snowflake, or the graceful flight of a butterfly. It is in these moments of quiet observation that we can truly appreciate the exquisite craftsmanship of the natural world, marveling at its infinite complexity and diversity.
Beyond its aesthetic appeal, nature also has a profound impact on our well-being. Numerous studies have shown that spending time in nature can reduce stress, improve mood, and increase feelings of happiness and vitality. Whether it’s taking a leisurely stroll through a park, going for a hike in the mountains, or simply sitting and watching the clouds drift by, immersing ourselves in the sights, sounds, and smells of the natural world can have a profoundly calming and rejuvenating effect on both body and mind.
Furthermore, nature has a remarkable ability to foster a sense of connection and community. Whether it’s through shared experiences like camping trips or outdoor adventures, or simply by coming together to appreciate the beauty of a sunset or the majesty of a starry sky, nature has a way of bringing people together and reminding us of our shared humanity.
In a world that often seems chaotic and divided, the beauty of nature offers a source of solace and inspiration, reminding us of the simple joys and wonders that surround us each and every day. So let us take the time to pause, to breathe, and to open our hearts to the beauty that lies all around us, for in doing so, we may find a deeper sense of peace, purpose, and connection to the world we call home.
11 page MLA or APA report which includes title page, abstract, table of contents include page numbers on pages
My final report is on Walk a Weigh for 4-h youth.
Walk-a-Weigh (Youth Audience) will educate clients about different strategies to implement or improve nutrition and physical activity habits for themselves and/or their families. In walk a weigh Participants will learn how to:
Increase fiber intake,
Monitor caloric intake,
Increase fruit and vegetable intake,
Limit excessive sugar, sodium, and fat intake,
Limit sweetened beverage consumption, and
Increase physical activity.
Develop and submit a final written evaluation report that includes background information on the program, logic model, evaluation purpose, Big E questions answered, data collection procedures (including tools/instruments), participants, analyses conducted, results of analyses, discussion of findings (conclusions), recommendations based on
results, dissemination plan, assessment of evaluation process, and discussion of evaluation standards applied. Include an Executive Summary. Use the detailed instructions and grading rubric provided to make sure you include all required elements.
An example evaluation report is available in the Week 12 Module — HOWEVER — This example does NOT follow
the “Evaluation Report Guidelines 2024” instructions. It has been uploaded simply to show you an example of the “formal” nature of an evaluation report, use of subheadings, presentation of findings, etc. If you only follow this example, you will MISS required content based on this semester’s report guidelines.