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Description:

Using the Learning Resource Center, Concorde’s resource library- https://www.galepages.com/miss22358 (Links to an external site.), or other academically appropriate sources, write a short essay evaluating an argument.

Objectives:

• Evaluate an argumentative essay.

Instructions:

• Choose an argumentative essay to evaluate.
• Next, complete a written evaluation of your chosen argumentative essay. Your essay should be 500-700 words long.

Assignment Submission:

• Use of sources is required; all papers must be cited and written in APA format

Writing Assignments Rubric

Criteria	Ratings	Pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Ideas	10 pts Ideas are clear, insightful, thought-provoking, and focused so that they consistently support the topic, thesis and audience for the paper. 6 pts Ideas are clear and focused to support the topic and a clearly-stated central idea, but are not consistently insightful or thought-provoking. 4 pts Ideas are clear but conventional or general, and support the topic, thesis, and audience for the paper. 0 pts Ideas are unclear or clichéd and demonstrate a lack of focus in support of the topic or a central idea, which may be vague or missing.	10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeAssignment Development	10 pts Development is fresh, with abundant details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific and insightful evidence in support of sound logic. 6 pts Development is adequate, but may lack depth, with details and examples that arouse audience interest and provide relevant, concrete, specific evidence in support of sound logic. 4 pts Development is sufficient but general, providing adequate but perhaps not interesting details, examples, and evidence that include no logical fallacies or unsupported claims. 0 pts Development is insufficient, providing scarce or inappropriate details, evidence, and examples that may include logical fallacies or unsupported claims.	10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeOrganization	10 pts Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the paper’s purpose/ plan and consistently demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs. 6 pts Organization is coherent, unified and effective in support of the paper’s purpose/ plan and usually demonstrates effective and appropriate rhetorical transitions between ideas and paragraphs 4 pts Organization is coherent and unified overall in support of the essay’s purpose/ plan, but is ineffective at times and may demonstrate abrupt or weak transitions between ideas or paragraphs. 0 pts Organization is confused and fragmented in support of the essay’s purpose/ plan and demonstrates a lack of structure or coherence that negatively affects readability.	10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeStyle & Mechanics	10 pts Readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, precise word choice and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Mastery of style) 6 pts Style is readable and rhetorically effective in tone, incorporating varied sentence structure, effective word choice, and correct grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Effective style) 4 pts Style is readable, but unremarkable in tone, sometimes including a lack of sentence variety effective word choice, or some distracting, but not serious, errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Readable but inconsistent style) 0 pts Style is incoherent or inappropriate in tone, including a lack of sentence variety, ineffective or inappropriate word choice, and serious errors in grammar, spelling and punctuation. (Ineffective style)	10 pts
This criterion is linked to a Learning OutcomeFormat	10 pts Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works expertly to support the essay’s purpose/plan. 6 pts Format is correct, meets all assignment directions, and works generally to support the essay’s purpose/plan. 4 pts Format is mostly correct, meets critical aspects of assignment directions, and works mostly to support the essay’s purpose/ plan. 0 pts Format is faulty, does not meet sufficient aspects of the assignment direction, and does not support the essay’s purpose/ plan.	10 pts
Total Points: 50

Collaborative Successes

Complete an analysis describing an area of complacency within your company or select a fortune 500 company department or division (i.e. Amazon, Google, or Coca Cola). Develop a measurable plan of collaborative problem solving to include identifying stakeholders, which can support process improvement initiatives, justified by a road map and schedule of events. Lastly, integrate Honda’s BP process concept with how this sponsors or configures change to maximize your organization’s output in supporting the end customer.

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The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

• Write between 750 – 1,250 words (approximately 3 – 5 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style, see example below.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use at least three references from outside the course material, one reference must be from EBSCOhost. Text book, lectures, and other materials in the course may be used, but are not counted toward the three reference requirement.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

References must come from sources such as, scholarly journals found in EBSCOhost, CNN, online newspapers such as, The Wall Street Journal, government websites, etc. Sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. are not acceptable for academic writing.

LECTURE:

Supply Chain Collaboration Dynamics

Collaborating with stakeholders upstream and downstream has become imperative to maximize growth and development within organizations. Organizational platforms are drastically changing based on multi-generational value systems with a direct correlation to collaboration. Chokshi (2014) reported that Wall Street professionals are transitioning to the tech industry, even taking lower paid positions, as time off with family and a strong family-oriented culture are more desirable for the long-term career success. This lecture discusses positive characteristics from learning versus functional organizational structures and the associated collaboration initiatives. Executing problem-solving and process improvement initiatives extends from an organization, with a positive culture; therefore, we will discuss how to motivate individuals to be participative, and conclude with a supply chain council discussion.

Learning and Functional Organizations

Learning organizations have gained popularity since the late 1990’s during the Silicon Valley tech boom. A learning organization is one that seeks to create its own future; that assumes learning is an ongoing and creative process for its members; and one that develops, adapts, and transforms itself in response to the needs and aspirations of people, both inside and outside itself (Mason, 2015). Focusing on the knowledge base, critical thinking and the communication of ideas, the organizational structure is lean with either one or two hierarchical tiers. Key disciplines incorporated into a learning organization include systems thinking; personal mastery; mental models; building shared visions; and team learning (Seng, 1990).

Several outcomes of learning organizations include:

• Garner Independent Thought
• Increase Our Ability to Manage Change
• Improve Quality
• Develop a More Committed Workforce
• Give People Hope that Things Can Get Better
• Stretch Perceived Limits
• Are in Touch with a Fundamental Part of Our Humanity: The need to learn, to improve our environment, and to be active actors, not passive recipients (Karash, 1995)

A functional organization normally hosts three or more hierarchical tiers where personnel are grouped as per their designated specialization. Depending on the structure an employee reports to their functional manager or project manager. The organization chart is transparent in depicting the president, vice president, and other functional departments within the organization. Each department has a director who provides quality and performance oversight.

Advantages of a functional organization include:

• Highest degree of performance is achieved as employees are grouped together by knowledge and skills.
• Skills and efficiencies are improved from performing with similar employees.
• Roles and responsibilities are affixed ensuring easy accountability.
• Hierarchy is transparent.
• No duplication of work as each department has a fixed job.
• Employees more secure as they host the unique skill sets for their area of responsibility.
• Greater job security equals great organizational loyalty.
• Clear career growth paths are established.
• Internal department communications are excellent.

Each structure offers both strengths and weaknesses; therefore, developing a supply chain requires constant integration with the structure, but ensuring participation. While a functional organization structure is more rigid with clear processes, learning organizations are more organic offering flexibility and often quicker response times. The opportunity to work in hybrid organization structures also offers advantages and disadvantages; however, these opportunities all equate to lessons learned and experiences that may be shared with students and professionals alike.

Collaboration and Emotional Intelligence

Collaborative effort is simply recognized as working with another person or a group of people to achieve a desired task or embark upon a new initiative. Collaboration discussions this week relate to transformational and incremental innovation strategies. Both strategies ascertain talent management and collective process strategies to reduce costs and increase performance capabilities. Problem solving and process improvement initiatives are obsolete unless executive leadership and senior management support the dynamics of cultural enhancement, while actively listening to suggestions and taking into account white papers collected among the entire chain of command.

Another element of critical thought to engage in collaboration includes understanding emotional intelligence theory. Emotional intelligence taps into a fundamental element of human behaviors that is distinctly different from your intellect. The intelligence quotient (IQ) is the ability of an individual to learn, while emotional intelligence is a flexible skill set that is acquirable, and improved upon with practice. Lastly, personality related to introversion or extroversion, is stable over an individual’s lifetime.

While IQ and personality are cemented to the root foundation of an individual, emotional intelligence is linked to the highest performers in organizations based on the rational and emotional brains. Four core skills comprise emotional intelligence to include self-awareness, social awareness, self-management, and relationship management as shown in Figure 2.

The four core skills are comprised of competence, what an individual sees and does to manage their internal and external environments. Daniel Pink, an economist who has studied motivational factors spanning organizations across the world, embraces individual motivations correlated to mastery, autonomy, and purpose. He demonstrates that the “secret to high performance and satisfaction – at work, at school, and at home – is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world” (Pink, 2015).

Supply Chain Councils

As demonstrated during last week’s lecture supply chain management is an element of logistics management. As logistics has become vast across the Department of Defense (DoD), logistics managers are now recognized as Product Support Managers (PSM) based on a single system accounting for billions of dollars. To ensure best practices PSM conferences were established beginning in 2011. These conferences resulted in the distribution and transparency of DoD strategic goals as well as the recognition of organization-wide bottlenecks. Realizing the complacency of innovation among DoD functional hierarchies suggestion programs, climate surveys, and focus groups are now required across all Systems Commands on an annual basis.

Knowledge sharing has become more prevalent across the acquisition programs reflecting a decrease in costs, increased performance capabilities by integrating joint-logistics and supply chain operations, and recognized material support practices by using standardized NERP rules across the four military services and federal agencies. The base construct used to support conference initiatives host 12 steps as illustrated in Figure 4 below.

The culmination of industry professionals along with DoD senior stakeholders has embraced a more innovative culture, which is sponsoring process changes and empowering junior employees and users to forward recommended solutions in the development of a toolkit for future acquisition managers. The tools help integrate the right mix of support sources, ensure compliance with statutes, policies, and funding variables, and systematically document the process for product support strategies. This results in meeting the desired levels of performance, cost management, and customer satisfaction.

References

• Acquisition Community Connection. (2015). Product support manager. Retrieved from https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=37218…
• Acquisition Community Connection. (2015). Product support manager toolkit. Retrieved from https://acc.dau.mil/CommunityBrowser.aspx?id=41280…
• Karash, R. (1995). Why a learning organization? Retrieved from http://world.std.com/~lo/WhyLO.html
• Mason, M. (2015). What is a learning organization. Retrieved from http://www.moyak.com/papers/learning-organization….
• Pink, D. (2015). Drive. Retrieved from http://www.danpink.com/books/drive/
• Senge, P. (1990). The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday.
• Talentsmart. (2015). About emotional intelligence. Retrieved from http://www.talentsmart.com/about/emotional-intelli…

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GO16_WD_VOL1_GRADER_CAP2_HW – Summer Sports Expo 1.5

Project Description:

In this project, you will apply skills you practiced from the Objectives in Word Chapters 1–3. You will assist the Vice President of Human Resources to edit and create documents for a company-wide training program that will be held via teleconference over a period of four days for each Front Range Sports location. The first document is a cover letter from the vice president to the company president. The letter will accompany a packet of materials for the training sessions, which includes a brief resume for the guest speaker, a flyer that will announce the training, a newsletter for employees, and a research paper on Customer Relationship Management.

Steps to Perform:

Step	Instructions	Points Possible
1	Start Word. Download and open the file named go_wcap2_grader_version_2.docx. Be sure that the formatting marks display.	0
2	On Page 1, select the first paragraph—the company name—and then increase the Font Size to 28 pt. Change the Font Size of the next four paragraphs—the address, phone, and web information—to 12 pt.	2
3	Select the first five paragraphs that you just formatted, change the Font to Arial, and then with the text selected, display the Borders and Shading dialog box. Create a 6 pt, Automatic-colored border on the left side of the selected text. In the paragraph that begins Please let me know, select the second sentence and move it to the beginning of the paragraph. Adjust spacing as necessary and be sure there are no extra blank spaces at the end of the paragraph.	3
4	On Page 2, in the newsletter, select the second paragraph of text, which begins with Employee Newsletter. Display the Borders and Shading dialog box, and then add an Automatic-colored, 3 pt border below the paragraph.	3
5	Starting with the paragraph that begins Live Company-Wide Training, select all of the text from that point to the end of the page, including the paragraph mark after the word customers. Do not select the Page Break. Change the Spacing After to 6 pt, format the text in two columns, and apply the Justify alignment.	2
6	At the top of the first column, select the paragraph Live Company-Wide Training. Open the Font dialog box, change the Font Size to 16, apply Bold, and add the Small caps effect. Then Center the paragraph. Apply the same formatting to the paragraph Why CRM?.	5
7	On the same page, in the blank line above the last paragraph of the newsletter, insert the picture wCap1_Database1.jpg from your downloaded files. If necessary, set the Width of the picture to 3″ and apply a 10 pt Soft Edges effect.	4
8	In the blank line at the top of Page 3, insert a 2×3 table. In the first cell of the table, type on four lines. Press ENTER after each of the first three entries: Lourdes Sanchez 1651 Marquette Place Boston, MA 90016 lsanchez@sanchezcrm.biz	4
9	In the second row, in the first cell, type CAREER HIGHLIGHTS and press TAB. In the second cell of the second row, insert the text from the file wCap1_Career_Text.docx and then press BACKSPACE one time to remove the blank line at the bottom of the inserted text.	3
10	In the third row, in the first cell, type EDUCATION and in the cell to the right, type Dr. Sanchez’s educational information as follows; press ENTER after each of the first five entries: Boston University Ph.D. in Business Management University of Pittsburgh M.S. in Marketing University of Michigan B.S. in Social Psychology	4
11	Insert a new row at the bottom of the table. In the first cell of the new row, type CONSULTANT and then in the cell to the right, type the following on three lines; press ENTER after each of the first two entries: NH Savings and Loan Arrowhead Sporting Goods Forward Ski Corporation	4
12	Apply Bold to the headings CAREER HIGHLIGHTS, EDUCATION, and CONSULTANT. Drag the vertical border between the two columns to the 1.5-inch mark on the horizontal ruler.	4
13	In the first row, merge the two cells, and then Center the text. Select Lourdes Sanchez, increase the Font Size to 24 pt, apply Bold, and then add 24 pt space before the text. Select the e-mail address and add 18 pt Space After the text.	6
14	Create a bulleted list, using black circle bullets, for the items below PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE and below PUBLICATIONS. Apply Bold to the name of each university, and then apply 12 pt Spacing After to the name of each college degree.	4
15	Select the table, and then remove all borders. From the Borders and Shading dialog box, add a 3 pt solid border to the top of the table.	3
16	Near the top of Page 4, in the paragraph that begins A proven method, in the seventh line, position the insertion point to the right of the period following career, and then insert the following footnote: The theory is that if the customer exchange is executed as well as possible, there is an opportunity to transform him or her into a loyal customer.	4
17	Modify the footnote style by changing the Font Size to 11 pt, add a First Line Indent of 0.5″, and set Line spacing to Double.	8
18	In the paragraph that begins A proven method, position the insertion point to the left of the period at the end of the paragraph. Using the MLA format, add the following Book citation. After you add the citation, in the text, select the Benioff citation and add the page number xx Author: Benioff, Marc Title: Behind the Cloud Year: 2009 City: San Francisco Publisher: Jossey-Bass Medium: Print	6
19	On Page 6, click in the blank line at the top of the page. On the References tab, click Bibliography, and then click Works Cited. Select the two references, change the Line Spacing to 2.0 and change the Spacing After to 0 pt.	10
20	On Page 7, select the three paragraphs below the title that begin Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and then change the Spacing After to 0 pt.	3
21	Select the four paragraphs with the four days below the title, and then from the Borders and Shading dialog box, apply a Box border using theme color Blue, Accent 1 and a 3 pt border. Add Shading using theme color Blue, Accent 1, Lighter 80%.	5
22	Click after the colon at the end of the paragraph that precedes the bulleted list. Insert the downloaded picture wCap1_Database2.jpg. Change the Width of the picture to 3.5″, and then set the Layout Options to Square.	5
23	Display the Layout dialog box, and position the picture so that the Horizontal Alignment is set to Right relative to Column and the Vertical Alignment is set to Top relative to Line. Apply a Picture Style using the Soft Edge Rectangle.	5
24	At the bottom of the flyer, click in the second blank paragraph below the last paragraph. Display the Choose a SmartArt Graphic dialog box, select Process, and then choose the first style—Basic Process. Change the wrapping style to In Line with Text, if necessary. Click the outer edge of the graphic to select it if necessary, and then on the Format tab, set the Height of the SmartArt graphic to 1″ and the Width to 6.5″. Add the following text to the three shapes, in this order: Training Discussion Implementation Apply the 3-D Cartoon style.	3
25	Save and close go_wcap2_grader_version_2. Exit Word. Submit as directed.	0

Total Points

100

1/ View the videos below and respond via the journal.

• He Led Them Like a Shepherd VideoLinks to an external site. (29 min) [TranscriptLinks to an external site.]
• By Every Word VideoLinks to an external site. (24 min) [TranscriptLinks to an external site
• 2/ View the two videos below and respond via the journal.
  • Wet Feet – Jordan River VideoLinks to an external site. (16 min) [TranscriptLinks to an external site.]
  • First Fruits – Tel Jericho VideoLinks to an external site. (13 min) [TranscriptLinks to an external site.
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    (3.7) Video Lectures Forum – Due Thursday / SundayNo unread replies.No replies.

    A key aspect of Video used in this course includes actually watching the scenes, setting, temples, clothes, and geography of each video. In other words, while the content of the teaching is of a high quality about the Bible – each learner should pay particular attention to things “shown” in the video that make the video itself a teaching resource for information about the Bible.For this reason, the responses in the Video Lecture Forum will intend to focus on the visual aspects of what is shown in each video. In this forum you will add a new discussion topic to begin your reflection.From the videos watched in every week, each learner should discern two specific presentations made where the the image, geography, picture, or setting witnessed in the Video gives insight into how we understand the situation and story of the Bible.Each learner will begin each initial assignment post by writing: “I have viewed X% of the videos for this week.” (Where X represents the cumulative number of minutes of all video minutes present for the week.) You will be writing your initial response AND responding to classmates’ posts.Each learner will then select any two scenes, images, settings, objects, symbols or places represented in the video where the Video helps the learner better understand that issue. Learners will share on two separate subjects from two separate videos.Each learner should write a minimum of 100 words about each of the two separate items from the two separate videos for their initial post, for a total of 200 total words as a minimum for the initial post.