Assignment 4.2: Report – Draft Version
Due Week 9 and worth 170 points

Write a formal justification report to an organization making a recommendation to implement a particular product, service, or program. The organization may have a business, governmental, professional, or social focus. The report may focus on a “real” or “made-up” recommendation, but you should direct the report to an actual organization, even if you do not plan to submit the report. The audience within the organization will be whatever level is most appropriate to make a decision on the topic of your report. 

Write a minimum of two to four (2-4) single-spaced report pages (not including the table of contents, transmittal form, executive summary, or title page).

1. Organize the reports by section headings. 
2. The report should contain relevant and applicable graphics (at least one [1]). 
3. The findings should be based on research, including at least one [1] primary source and at least three (3) secondary sources. Sources should be credible and reliable (no Wikipedia). 
4. The report should reflect a style and format appropriate for business, i.e., single spacing and bullet points are acceptable for the business report. 
5. Headings, figures, and appendices should follow guidelines of APA style. All in-text citations and the references page should be cited according to APA style, Sixth edition guidelines. 

Preliminary parts

• Title page
• Transmittal (1 page) 
• Table of contents 
• Executive summary (1 page) 

Report text 

• Introduction 
• Problem statement 
• Method used 
• Findings 
• Analysis 
• Conclusion 

Addenda 

• References 
• Appendices 

Your assignment must:

• Be typed, single spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date. The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Support ideas or claims in body paragraphs with clear details, examples, and explanations.
• Organize ideas logically by using transitional words, phrases, and sentences.
• Use sentence variety and effective word choice in written communication.
• Apply writing process strategies to develop formal business reports and / or proposals.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues related to selected topics.
• Write clearly and concisely using proper writing mechanics.

Click here to view the grading rubric for this assignment.

Assignment 2: Project Schedule Changes

You have kicked off the District 4 Production Warehouse Move project, your contractors are in place and working on receiving the proper building permits.

You originally were told the permits would only take 2 weeks to obtain but the contractors are telling you it will now take 3 weeks. You need to build the additional week into your schedule for each permit that will be obtained.

In addition, your framing and drywall contractors have just told you they are running late on their other jobs and can only release half their crew for your project. This will double their schedule.

Build the extra time into your schedule by doubling the installation work timelines for both the framing and drywall. Your project plan should also be updated with the new 3-week timeline for obtaining permits. Use the project plan you created for this task.

You are now looking at an extended project delivery date. Your project sponsor was very clear that you must be done in a 4 month timeframe so you will need to look at options for reducing your schedule to fit into the 4 month window.

You have an option of hiring another contractor to help with the framing and drywall work but it will increase your budget by $200,000.

Determine your best course of action for bringing this project in on schedule and update your project plan to reflect your recommendation. Develop a 5-6 slide presentation for senior management outlining your proposed solution. You are seeking approval to proceed with your new plan.

Submit both your updated project plan and PowerPoint presentation.

Submit your plan to M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox by Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

Writing Assignment

The Juvenile Justice Practice Series of NCJRS provides a description of six model youth aftercare programs that prepare juveniles for reentry into the community. Although these programs vary in origin, design, and approach, all share certain formal characteristics. The six programs are described here:

https://www.ncjrs.gov/html/ojjdp/201800/page5.html

In a 2-page APA formatted paper students will identify similarities and differences among the programs and state which program sounds the most promising to them? Students should also include recommended changes to the program they select to improve it further.

Students will also include at least one “real life” case that resulted from one of these programs.

A minimum of two references, one being from an outside, non-GU source, are required.

Please be very sensitive to the issues of plagiarism! All of the written work submitted must clearly be your own. Keep in mind transcription of material (copying), followed by parenthetical identification of the source with little or no original thought added does not constitute an adequate essay. You are expected to provide some evidence that at least a significant portion of the each essay is your own reaction to, thought about or evaluation of the subject of the essay, composed in your own words. Agreement, disagreement, examples, etc. are appropriate – as long as evidence of some thoughtful and pertinent independent thought, reaction, or response to the term or question is included.

Human Activity and Climate Change

In 3-4 pages, using APA-style formatting, discuss and give your position on the following statement: “Human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels, is a major contributor to climate change”. Do you agree or disagree? Support your views with credible data. This is an area where junk science abounds. Be prepared to give and defend your sources as scientifically trustworthy.

In Chapter 1 of the text you read about the Bailey v. Eminem defamation case where the court held Eminem’s lyrics were protected by the First Amendment. Read the article and view the video (the links are listed under Week 1 Additional Learning Resources Required and Week 1 Multimedia Required) to the Pahler v. Slayer case. Respond to the following questions:

1.    Did the Pahler court use the same reasoning as used in Bailey v. Eminem?
2.    Should the court’s decision in Pahler be different because a young girl was murdered?
3.    Recall the difference between a crime and a tort. Based on these two cases, analyze and discuss whether artists should be held liable for the actions of their fans.

 Construct your personal professional code of behavior. 

Description: Construct a 5–10 point personal professional code of behavior to include both ethical and 

legal standards for healthcare practice. As part of your assessment, a) compare and contrast your 

personal professional code of behavior with the professional code of ethics for your particular healthcare 

specialty and b) provide a rationale for why you included the points you did. Attach your created professional code of ethics and specialty’s professional code of ethics used as a comparison point to the appendix.

I work in healthcare similar to that of an LPN/LVN so any hospital or nursing professional code of ethics you can find will do…may jus have to be modifiied a little

Requirements 

Option a or b: 2–6 pages; excluding any title page, 2 references, appendices, APA format

Unit 7-A Assignment Grading Rubric = 100 points (Assignment Option A) 

Assignment Requirements Points 

possible 

Points 

earned by 

student 

Create a 5–10-point professional code of 

ethics 

0–40 

Compare and contrast own code of ethics with 

that of the healthcare specialty 

0–20 

Describe the rationale for each point in your 

professional code. 

0–40 

Total (Sum of all points) 

Points deducted for spelling, grammar, and/or 

APA errors. 

Assignment 2: Personality Disorders—Fact or Fiction?

Personality disorders are chronic and persistent behavioral and emotional disturbances that are often difficult to treat. Some professionals argue that these disorders are not mental disorders at all, but personality styles—that these individuals are just odd or unusual. Review your text book and a minimum of two peer reviewed references and develop an argument for or against the inclusion of personality disorders as a diagnostic category in the next version of the DSM. Be sure to support your position with relevant research on the causation, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders.

Develop your position into a 2-3-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources and include a cover page and reference page. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M4_A2.doc.

By Wednesday, October 9, 2013, deliver your assignment to the M4: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Looking Ahead
Keep in mind that early in Module 5 the final piece of your course project is due. In this 4-5 page paper you will integrate the material you received in your interview/field research on your disorder of choice.

MILESTONE 5 – DATA MODEL NORMALIZATION

:Synopsis

n this milestone you will normalize the data model created in Milestone 4, along with additional data requirements, to be in third normal form.

:Assignment

The goal of this project is to normalize our logical data model to remove impurities that can make a database unstable, inflexible, and non-scalable.

:Deliverables

a.   MS Word document with your reply to the following activities:

1.   Milestone 4 (#1). (Please see Milestone 4.)

2.   Milestone 4 (#2). (Please see Milestone 4.)

3.   Milestone 4 (#3). (Please see Milestone 4.)

4.   Milestone 4 (#4). (Please see Milestone 4.)

5.   Milestone 5 (#1). To construct an Entity Relationship Diagram to be in 3^rd Normal form, follow the normalization procedure outlined in Chapter 8 of the SADM 7^th ed. textbook. Use feedback from your the ERD solution of Milestone 4 as well as the data dictionary provided at the end of this milestone to prepare the new data model. Copy / paste the resulting diagram  into the MS Word document for grading.

6.   Milestone 5 (#2). Specify all data types (data types: integer (numeric), floating point (numeric), string, Boolean, and date-time.)

7.   Milestone 5 (#3). Specify all primary and foreign keys.

8.   Milestone 5 (#4). Specify which attributes are required (not nullable).

b.   Aim to include about 1000 words overall in the document, but not more than 1300. (MS Word provides an easy-to-use way to count words: Tools – Word Count.)

c.   This part of the project has a weight of 10% of your overall grade.

Data Attribute Dictionary

Below is a Data Attribute Dictionary that contains all the attributes and definitions. Note: the attributes below are listed in alphabetical order, not by entity.