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Select one of the plays that you read and write an essay based on the provided writing assignment. The essay must be NO FEWER than 1000 words. Essays containing fewer than the minimum word count will NOT be graded. You should not have more than 20% from outside sources (in this case the textbook). That is no more than 200 words. NO outside sources other than the textbooks should be used (no internet!).

“Trifles”

Imagine you are a lawyer hired to defend Minnie Wright. Present your closing argument to the jury. Make sure you include references to situations that occurred in the play and cite them according to MLA formatting.

Essay guidelines

• The essay should be no fewer than 1000 words.

• The essay should include citations from the play.

• The essay should NOT include outside sources. You should include both inner citations and a works cited page in MLA format from any information you used in the play.

• should make sure that they answer the entire question and support their answers.

http://www.english.unt.edu/~simpkins/Trifles.pdf Link about the play

Part A

Read “Guidelines for Designing Web Navigation,” by David K. Farkas and Jean B. Farkas. Technical Communication 4 (2000), 341-358; it’s available electronically for class use here.

Also read Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..

There is nothing to turn in for this part.

Part B

Pick a partner who is also enrolled in the class. Together, find three different web sites that perform the same function: any type of site, such as travel sites (expedia.com, orbitz.com, kayak.com), book sites (amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, powells.com/), departmental home pages (anthropology.uci.edu, anthro.ucla.edu, anthro.ucsd.edu), government sites (whitehouse.gov, www.number10.gov.uk, www.elysee.fr), anything (but not the sites we discussed in class).

As you’re browsing for your three sites, write down in your HCI notebook any particularly good (clear, clever, attractive, efficient, informative) web pages you encounter, and any that are particularly bad (unclear, frustrating, clumsy, ugly). Besides the URL, write down briefly what impressed you (positively or negatively) about the site.

Analyze the sites in terms of external consistency. Are there clear norms or standards that are evident across the sites? Identify at least 3 external consistencies or inconsistencies across the sites.

Next, identify a task that each of the three sites performs: For example, find a flight to Paris on a given date, order the textbook for this course, find all the faculty who study people’s use of technology, identify the leader’s policy on energy conservation. Pick a task of moderate complexity: Don’t pick one that only requires three or four clicks on one page and don’t pick one that requires 25. Of course, the different sites will probably require different steps to perform the task.

Which of the three sites lets the user perform the task the most quickly? Consider everything the user needs to do: reading and recognition time, mouse movement time, anything else. (Pay less attention to slow response time, since that may vary from one time of day to another. But if a site is consistently slow to respond, it’s worth mentioning.)

Which of the three sites is the slowest? Is there something about the slowest site that explains the slowness—for example, that it gives the user more choices than the others?

You’ll want to decide on the characteristics of the hypothetical user you’re talking about here—beginning or experienced, old or young or in between, whatever characteristics are relevant—and keep those assumptions constant throughout.

Write up your analysis from Part B. In the write-up, you should:

• Provide a brief description of the 3 sites you chose
• Identify the 3 forms of external consistency and write a brief explanation of each
• Briefly describe your hypothetical user
• Briefly describe the user’s goals and task
• Identify the fastest and slowest website for your chosen task, and explain why they are fast or slow. Provide screen shots of the steps involved for these 2 sites. As always, give reasons that relate to usability topics we’ve covered, such as these: The button is too small to hit easily; the alternatives are lined up so it’s easy to scan the list; the user is required to make too many fine visual distinctions based on the amount of blue in the images; the categories are named using terms that the intended users will know.

Your write-up (not including screenshots) should be approximately 1 page (about 250 words) long.

Part C

With your partner, take your best-performing website and redesign it for the task you analyzed to make that task even faster. (If you think your winning site is perfect, choose one of the other sites and redesign it to improve it, maintaining consistency with the rest of the original site—that is, don’t just redesign it to look like the winner).

Steps to take (not items to turn in):

1. Think about how to rearrange the elements on the page, how to use features like color and alignment to group items and guide the user’s eye, how to categorize and organize the content, and anything else we’ve discussed in class or you’ve read in the book. Of course not every aspect will apply to your task on your site.

2. Sketch out your redesign on paper. You and your partner should each walk through the redesign (following through the task, step by step), looking for problems and making improvements.

3. After you’re satisfied with your redesign, decide whether your redesign would be better represented as a low-fidelity prototype or a high-fidelity prototype. If the improvements are mostly about layout and interaction, choose low-fidelity. If they’re more about color, typography, detailed illustrations, or fine-tuned arrangement of elements, choose high-fidelity.

4. If you’ve chosen a low-fidelity prototype:

Create a mockup of your redesign using (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.Balsamiq (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Moqups (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., Mockingbird (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., or similar wireframe mockup tool. These tools help you build low-fidelity prototypes of web sites. They let you place user interface items on a screen to create a page, they let you create multiple pages, and they let you establish hyperlinks between pages. Then you (or a user) can run the prototype, following the links to test out the behavior you want to examine. (Note: These tools all have free trial periods, typically for one month, They tools are pretty similar and you can choose whichever you want.)

For this assignment, you just need to show the new (redesigned) screen(s) and how they link to each other; you don’t need to implement the underlying functionality of your redesign. This is a mock-up, not a polished design, so don’t spend more than an hour or two putting the redesign mockup together. When you’re done, export your work to a PDF file and also obtain a URL for your design from the mockup tool if possible (Note: If this is not possible with the tool you’ve chosen, please email the TAs and we can make alternate arrangements). Submit that PDF file along with the main electronic document you turn in; in that document, be sure you paste the URL where your design is hosted.

4. If you’ve chosen a high-fidelity prototype:

Use a WYSIWYG GUI builder (software that lets you place predesigned buttons, menus, scrollbars, and other user interface elements onto a screen design, such as Visual Basic, Visual C++, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Axure, Interface Builder, RapidWeaver, OmniGraffle, etc.). Some of these tools are available on the ICS lab machines or for free trial download; nobody needs to purchase new software for this part. Even if neither partner is a proficient software user, you should try to learn your way around one of these tools. If you’d like to use Photoshop or PowerPoint for this task, you may, but the tools listed above have built-in interface elements like windows, buttons, and so on, while in Photoshop or PowerPoint you have to build them from the ground up. Incorporate your high-fidelity illustrations into the electronic document you turn in.

5. In half a page at most, describe your redesign and explain how it improves the original. Give reasons for each change that relate to what we’ve covered (i.e., not, “We think this looks cooler,” but something like, “We used terms familiar to the user, following Nielsen’s guideline of matching the system with the real world; we grouped similar tasks together visually, following the Gestalt Principle of using physical proximity to reinforce the closeness in meaning; we listed more available options on the first page, promoting recognition over recall (Nielsen) and following users’ general preference for broad, shallow hierarchies over narrow, deep ones”).

Combine all your group’s written answers into one electronic document (plus the wireframe PDF export file in the low-fidelity case) and submit it here on Canvas(PDF preferred, but other standard formats are okay). Make sure the document includes the names of both partners. Please use the standard naming for your file, “Lastname[_Lastname2]_ICS4_HW3.pdf” (see the Assignments page for details).

Consider the following argument: There are many arguments for the elimination or modification of current U. S. drug laws, but one of the most persuasive involves what negative effects drug laws are having on society in comparison with the effects of the drugs themselves. In the past ten years, most forms of drug use have dropped significantly, especially among teens. Despite this, non-violent drug offenders accounted for 21.1 percent of the federal prison population. First time drug offenders serve, on average, a sentence three months longer than kidnappers, nine months longer than burglars, and thirty-three months longer than sex abusers. In 1992, the average cost of keeping an inmate in either state or federal prison was about $20,000 per prisoner per year. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 455 prisoners per 100,000 population. It is maintaining these prisoners at great expense in an environment where they are unlikely to develop a socially constructive attitude. Perhaps it is time that we reconsider our attitudes toward those who choose to use drugs; failure to do so may cost society even more than it already has.

• Determine whether or not the argument uses any deceptive statistics. Give your opinion on whether or not the argument has persuaded you. Explain why or why not.
• Determine the primary ways in which statistics or authority are used in your current position in developing persuasive arguments, and provide examples of such use.

Note: minimum of one (1) response to another post per discussion thread. (Basically i need a response to the response eve has given.)

Eve Minner

RE: Week 5 Discussion

Because the argument doesn’t provide any citations behind the statistics presented as evidence to support the claims, its hard to determine their validity or relevance. This makes the overall information deceptive as there’s no way to tell where the information came from, or how dated it is. Although the argument has peaked my interest, I wouldn’t go so far as to say that it’s persuaded me to think differently about the prosecution of drug offenders – violent or non-violent. I still believe that each person needs to be handled in an effort to discourage drug use in the country,. If the statistics above are true, it wouldn’t surprise me given the ease of accessing drugs in our country, including the rampant uptick of opioid use that we’re currently seeing.

As for the second part of the article, I’m not sure if I’m being asked whether or not I use statistics in my current professional role, or the ways I use statistics to bolster my position on any particular argument, so I’ll answer both – lol! In my current professional role, I don’t use statistics generally, except when discussing innovative products or salary increases. With that said, we as a company tend to look at the preferences and generational/lifestyle choices when developing innovative new products for consumers. For example, we know that organic, non-GMO is preferred by most millennials, but convenience and nutritionally sound (i.e. vitamin infused waters, etc.) are preferred by an even larger percentage of the overall population. So, in our innovation session, we may try to find a way to meet both needs and capture more of the market share. We also use statistics to show our business partners areas in their store where they’re “bleeding” customers because they don’t have a strong enough presence in a particular category to either keep shoppers there, or attract new consumers (i.e. – not a large enough organic apple selection, so they lose 60% of their customers to a nearby Walmart that has a larger juice selection).

How I use statistics or authority to bolster my own position when presenting an argument depends on the argument itself. For example, if I were arguing the claim noted by the discussion question, I would certainly use and cite the information noted to drive home my main point that prison reform is not only needed, it’s harmful to the overall population as it currently stands. I would use a voice of authority when trying to support an opinion I had on a certain topic. For example, if I made the claim that “reading books is good for a child’s mind,” I would want to find research to support this, and include quotes from leading neurologists to further bolster my claim.

This week, you will produce an introductory paragraph with your thesis statement and an annotated bibliography for the Final Research Paper.

Thesis Statement: Generating a thesis statement is perhaps the most important part of the research paper process. It is essential for you to craft a strong, defendable thesis statement upon which you will base further research. Include your thesis statement within an introductory paragraph.

Annotated Bibliography: The purpose of the annotated bibliography is to assist you in developing research analysis skills including critical thinking, writing, and literature research skills. The annotated bibliography should include the following information for each source:

• Name of the article, including the complete bibliographic citation, using APA format.
• Summary/abstract of the article – annotation (sometimes it is helpful to ask yourself the following questions in synthesizing the information):
  • Who? (author)
  • What was done? (e.g., an experimental study investigating the interaction of short term memory and attention)
  • How? (was it done)
  • What were the findings? (identify the major ones)
  • Contributions? (new findings, applications, etc.)

Review the complete instructions for the Final Research Paper in Week Five of your online course or in the “Components of Course Evaluation” section of this guide. To conduct accurate research for the annotated bibliography, consider the following:

• Research in peer-reviewed journals or other journals that are considered to have reliable information. Do not use sources from the secular press (e.g., Time, Newsweek, or Wikipedia). Review the guidelines for acceptable sources by reading the “Academic Research” section within the Student Responsibilities and Policies tab under Course Home on the left navigation toolbar in your online course.
• Identify at least five academic sources, at least three that can be found in the Ashford Online Library. If you do find something on the World Wide Web, it must be authored and be a reliable source.
• In these journals, the research and information is either reviewed by an editorial team (such as for the Academy of Management Review) or a group of peers (such as in many journals you find through the Ashford Online Library).

For information regarding writing your thesis statement and annotated bibliography, refer to the Ashford Writing Center within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar in your online course.

The paper must be four pages in length and formatted according to APA style. You must use at least five scholarly resources (at least three of which can be found in the Ashford Online Library) other than the textbook to support your claims and subclaims. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page. For information regarding APA samples and tutorials, visit the Ashford Writing Center, within the Learning Resources tab on the left navigation toolbar.