9 pages using 11 or 12-point font, 1.5 line-spaced, and double-spaced between paragraphs. Use the section headings provided below. All sources are to be cited and referenced in APA style. Please refer to your APA Manual.

The organization for the ENTIRE assignment would be The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• SECTION 2: Goals Assessment
  • What is the organization’s vision and mission? What are the formal organizational goals? What are the organization’s values?
  • Who establishes the organization’s goals?
  • How is effectiveness measured?
  • How is performance reported to the public?
  • Do the vision, mission, goals, and values align? Explain.
  • Which of the organization’s goals do you think conflict? Explain.
  • How do the values impact organizational decision-making? Explain.
  • How does politics impact the organization’s vision, mission, values, and goals?
• SECTION 3: Environmental Analysis
• SECTION 4: Organizational Structure Analysis
  • How is the organization structured?
  • Are the organization’s services provided through a network?
  • Based on what you have learned in this course, is your organization’s structure appropriate for its environment? Explain.
  • How does politics impact the organization’s structure?
• SECTION 5: Critical Problem (and presentation)

Examine the organization’s vision, mission, goals, and values. This section of the report should address most of the following questions COMBINED IN ESSAY FORM:

Please do not provide a list of answers, but incorporate the answers to these questions into an insightful narrative.

In this section you will conduct an environmental analysis. Using Exhibit 4.1 (p. 88) as a guide, describe the environment in which the organization operates with respect to the following conditions:

• Political conditions
• Economic conditions
• Demographic (social) conditions
• Technological conditions

Be sure to examine the historical trends for each of these conditions. For additional information on environmental analysis, you might visit http://pestleanalysis.com/what-is-environmental-analysis/

Evaluate the organization’s structure by addressing the following questions:

Incorporate your answers to these questions into a narrative; do not provide a list of answers.

Identify what you think is the most significant problem facing the organization. When identifying a problem, think broadly about the topics that you studied in this course. “My organization has not found a cure for Ebola” is a serious problem, but it is not related to this course.“My organization is not structured effectively to facilitate research on finding a cure for Ebola” would make the problem course related. Consider how your organization might benefit from the application of organization theory concepts by improving performance, leadership, decision-making, motivation, service provision, client/citizen relations, or other concepts to understand and resolve this problem.Recommend what you think would be an effective approach to resolving the problem confronting the organization.

PRESENTATION

The class presentation focuses on Section 5 of the Research Project in reporting on the most critical problem confronting the organization.A suggested approach to the presentation is to briefly describe the organization, identify the most critical problem, discuss how organization theory might suggest possible solutions, and set out the approach you think would be most effective in solving the problem. Presentation using should be approximately 10 to 12 slides.

This assignment is a straight forward two column page layout using InDesign. The PDF below outlines the assignment and a lot of information will be gone over in class so be very prepared to take notes and follow all directions and meet all deadlines to do well.

Single Page Two Column Layout Assignment-2.pdf

BestTakeNotes.doc

making clipping path in psd for indesign layouts.pdf

Drop Cap Hyphen Tabs Setting.pdf

NOTE: On the PDF instructions for making a clipping path the example says save as a .TIFF – you are not doing that, you are making a DuoTone that has to be saved as an EPS as explained in class.

Your Half Draft

• Description of core reading/focus text you chose, identifying its rhetorical characteristics
• Accurate summary of the core reading/focus text you chose
• The beginning of a meaningful response, supported with evidence, of the core reading/focus text you chose
• Introductory paragraph and body paragraphs, including your summary and the beginning of your response
• Clearly developed main point (thesis) stating overall, focused response to the selected core reading/focus text
• Use of at least 3 paraphrases (key details or ideas rephrased in your own words) and/or quotations (words, phrases, or key sentences)
• APA or MLA manuscript style formatting, as specified by your instructor, with in-text citations and either References (APA) or Works Cited (MLA) page, as specified by your instructor. (Works Cited or References list does not count in the minimum word-count requirement)
• Observation of the conventions of Standard English
• 350-450 words (no more, no less) for Half Draft (the minimum 150 words for your purpose statement is not included in this count)

https://money.cnn.com/2017/05/15/news/economy/school-lunch-shaming-congress-bill/index.html

My core readings is above ^^^

Rubric

Writing Project 1 Summary and Response Half Draft Rubric

In her 2019 book, The Heartland: An American History, University of Illinois Professor of History Kristin Hoganson discusses the myth of “the heartland” as it is used as a symbolic tool. After reading the introduction to her book, discuss the following for Post #2:

• • Based on your own understanding and what you have read so far, why is this “heartland” myth so powerful for Americans? What anxieties does it ease (as a concept)? Or, what does it reinforce (as a concept)?
  • What are some examples of the ways this heartland myth gets re-emphasized or re-circulated in our present time? Think in terms of texts that create “culture:” films, TV shows, politics, ads, memes, music, etc. With this in mind, what would you say is your own conception of “the heartland”?

Be sure to fully explain your connections. Also, it is useful to bring in at least one key quote from the text. Don’t forget to cite the page number(s).

Directions and Requirements:

Post your response to this discussion board. This time, it is only required to post once.

Credit for “support writing” will be offered here based on the depth of your response to the prompt. Don’t forget to edit and proofread your post before you submit it.

Remember to avoid political rants/opinions; we are in the mode of analysis and critical thought. Likewise, as you respond to these questions, go with your own experiences/observations and your reading of the text. Copying or borrowing from commentary on this book (or “the heartland” myth, in general) on the open web is not acceptable. Please remind yourself of the GCC Plagiarism policy; it applies even in an informal discussion post.

Be sure that your initial post is at least 200 words and completed by 9/24, 10:00am. We will use these posts to guide our class discussion on 9/24.