TEXT: College English and Business Communication
11th Edition, 2019
ISBN: 9781259911811
Author(s): Sue Camp and Marilyn Satterwhite
Describe five ways in which you can use nonverbal cues to show speakers that you are listening to them, and provide an example for each.
Prompt: Write a four to five page essay about a pivotal event in your life when your perception of the world changed and you learned something important. This essay should engage readers and, at the same time, help them understand the significance of the event. Tell your story vividly and dramatically. As well, your essay should be formatted in MLA and meet all MLA formatting requirements.Your remembered event should include:
A well told story—conflict is the defining component of a story. If there is no conflict, there is no story. Also be sure your story has a climax.
Vivid presentation of places and people—a reader struggles to understand the significance of a story if it is situated on a blank canvas. The setting should be specific; the characters should be specific. Choose necessary details but avoid digressions. Reconstruct at least one conversation you had during the event.
Indication of the event’s significance—review what you determine to be the event’s significance and add another three to five sentences extending your insights. This kind of thesis, or controlling idea, is different from what you may have learned before, but it should still have an assertion that a reasonable person could agree with.
A clear organizational structure—the order of events should be structured in a way to provide clarity for the reader. Two structures of autobiographical narratives are chronological (beginning at the beginning) and flash back (beginning in the present and then looking back to tell the story).
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nquiry 1—Narrative and Identity
Length: 750 words, minimum
Weight: 20 points
Intended Audience: SUNY Albany faculty and students
Main Question: What is my experience of this issue/problem/question?
Overview: In Inquiry 1, you will inquire into your experience of an issue, problem, or question, through the writing of a personal narrative. You will choose a subject that is both interesting to you and relevant to your audience, and then tell the story of your experience with that issue. The purpose of this assignment is to write about a specific subject in terms of your own experience and thereby begin to generate specific, complex questions about that subject that will inform Inquiry 2. The goal of this paper is to arrive at a greater understanding of your chosen subject through the process of writing about it. Simultaneously, this assignment is designed to help you use narrative as a mode of inquiry and a persuasive technique.
You will need to consider how your stories have shaped your identity. This will start with critical inquiry: What makes you who you are? What are your talents, your flaws? Where are you from, what languages do you speak, what foods do you eat? What about your gender, race, ethnicity, family, culture, seems to have made the biggest difference in your life?
Examples:
You may tell a story about how you stayed home sick rather than read an essay aloud in class in the third grade, and use this as an opportunity to question how fear and writing, or fear and education, seem to be linked. On the other hand, you could recount the tales your grandmother shared from her native Russia, and reflect on how, for you, Russian words feel more “native” than English, even though you don’t actually speak Russian. This might be an opportunity to ask questions regarding language and childhood, and what it really means to be bi/trilingual. Alternatively, you might share a story from your neighborhood, and reflect on how your character is a mirror of your home, which offers a chance to examine the connections between place of birth and personality.Requirements:
Write a properly formatted scene: Scene is the bedrock of good narrative. Your narrative essay will have at least one properly formatted scene. Writing the scene actually helps you re-live the story, and thereby better understand it. And, it is much more interesting to actually recreate an incident for readers than to simply tell about it. To develop your scene consider:
Sights, sounds, smells, tactile feelings, and tastes
Actual or re-created dialogue
Actual names of people and places
Moving characters around in space, have them doing things
Show, don’t tell: Good narrative reveals rather than explains. Showing allows the reader to live as you have lived, while letting them draw their own conclusions about the event.
Reflect critically on the value and meaning of past events. Your narrative will contain some tension between the events of the past and your present understanding of them. Reflection helps readers find personal connections to your story. You can use this section to answer the eternal question: “so what?” and in doing so, generate new, larger questions: Has anyone else had a similar experience? If so, do they feel the same about it? If no, what accounts for these differences? How can others make sure to have this experience, or not?
Connect your ideas with a professional piece of writing. Academic thinking thrives on the conversation of many people’s ideas cobbled together in formal writing. This process gives credibility to individual authors and honors multiple perspectives. In your Inquiry 1, you will make reference to and formally cite one credible source that relates to your chosen topic. You will rely on at least one direct quotation and one paraphrase from this source, and use proper in-text citations, as well as write a works cited page. Again, begin with critical inquiry: How are your ideas mirrored in this source? How are they contradicted? What might you use from this source to develop your ideas or deepen your inquiry?
Answer the main question. Your scene and reflection should be working together to answer the main question: “what is my experience of this issue?” While you may not come up with a concrete answer (it’s probably better if you don’t) evidence of sustained inquiry should be present throughout the essay.
Write a 100-word summary of the story “The Embalming of Mr. Jones.” Be sure to capture all the details, narrative elements, tone, voice and mood of the original text in order to transmit that same anticlimatic feeling to the audience. Hint: Focus on the process aspect of the story to help you achieve this assignment.
The project management process involves two major functions: first establishing a plan and then executing that plan to accomplish the project objective. Describe how the project manager can help these two functions be successful.
Describe the agile project management for a project where a Scrum master is facilitating the Scrum development process for a software development project. Include a description of the six steps in the Agile project management process.
Often, the sum of the initial estimated costs is greater than the amount of funds budgeted by the sponsor. What should be done to arrive at an acceptable budget amount? Describe the steps necessary to ensure an acceptable budget amount is present.
Describe at least three potential subjects of negotiations in which a project manager would participate for a project?
Read “Business Problem-Solving Case: A Nasty Ending for Nasty Gal” on pages 387-388 of your text and answer the following: How was social media related to Nasty Gal’s business model? To what extent was Nasty Gal a “social” business? What people, organization, and technology problems were responsible for Nasty Gal’s failure as a business? Could Nasty Gal have avoided bankruptcy? Explain your answer.
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