What sort of techniques do you employ in your planning (prewriting) stage?
My Writing Process
As you saw from the assigned readings and materials, writing is considered to be a process. The process begins the moment you get an assignment and ends after the assignment is submitted (or, in some cases, even after that). The three main stages to the process are the planning (or prewriting) stage, the drafting stage, and the revision stage. The assigned reading and materials look at different aspects of the process, and how students approach writing. For this assignment, answer all of the following questions:
What sort of techniques do you employ in your planning (prewriting) stage? What do you do when you are first given a writing assignment? What is your “plan of attack”?
What sort of environment do you normally like to write in? Is it quiet? Noisy? Do you listen to music? What do you use (pencil, paper, notebook, laptop, desktop, etc.)? Do you need any sort of refreshments? What about lighting? Time of day? What are your optimal writing conditions? How often do you get to write in optimal conditions?
When you draft, where do you start? Thesis statement? Do you use an outline? How does your draft progress?
What do you think about revision? What is your reaction to feedback? Who do you normally get to look over your papers before you turn them in? How does revision help you?
From the assigned readings and lecture materials, do you think you may try to use strategies presented that you normally have not used in the past? If so, what looked useful to you? Please be specific and detailed in your response.
This should be in paragraphs (not a bulleted list). Use the default settings when creating discussion board posts (meaning do not use MLA format). This should be submitted by typing into the message box (do not submit as a file attachment).
How will the concepts and learning activities presented in this course benefit you in your future professional or academic pursuits?
How will the concepts and learning activities presented in this course benefit you in your future professional or academic pursuits? Share one specific aspect of this course that resonated with you the most, and explain why.
must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
In what other ways can you help the next project manager or the organization with future projects during the closing phase of your project?
In this unit, the focus is on the closing process group. You have learned that maintaining the lessons learned registry and then creating a lessons learned register is vital to future projects and project managers. As a project manager, what type of lessons learned information do feel is most vital to future projects? In what other ways can you help the next project manager or the organization with future projects during the closing phase of your project?
must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Do you think most stakeholders want to know more information or less information than the project manager may want to share? Explain your rationale.
In this unit, we focus on the controlling phase of the project. A part of the controlling phase is to provide performance updates to the project’s stakeholders. Reflect on the information that you would want to know as a project stakeholder. Do you think most stakeholders want to know more information or less information than the project manager may want to share? Explain your rationale.
must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Discuss what might factor into how a project manager might prioritize or weigh these elements as they guide the team to project completion and success.
Project managers often determine the project’s progress based on the elements of the project balanced scorecard (BSC), which includes the internal project, the customer, financing, and growth/innovation. For each of these areas of the project BSC, explain how the project manager would use each area to determine the progress made in the project during the execution phase. Discuss what might factor into how a project manager might prioritize or weigh these elements as they guide the team to project completion and success.
must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Identify one tool that was not used that could have benefitted the project team.
What are some of the tools, (i.e., work breakdown structure, project scheduling, Gantt charts, and critical path), that you have previously used in a project? Which tool did you find to be most beneficial? Were there tools that you found to be cumbersome? Identify one tool that was not used that could have benefitted the project team. Explain the rationale for your answers.
must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
How did the initiation phase help to provide more information for the planning phase?
Consider a personal project that you have worked on in the past. What steps did you take to begin the project? How did the initiation phase help to provide more information for the planning phase? Based on your project outcome, would you, in hindsight, do anything differently in the initiation phase?
must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Identify which aspects of culture you would be most concerned with as the project manager, and explain your rationale.
Each project manager has their own style and preferences and, through experience, has learned which organizations and cultures are best suited for their project management style. As a project manager, reflect on what type of organizational structure you would prefer (or anticipate you would prefer) to be working in. What personal preferences or priorities lead you to this choice? Identify which aspects of culture you would be most concerned with as the project manager, and explain your rationale.
must be at least 200 words in length. No references or citations are necessary.
Discuss 2 ways to introduce or implement changes within the healthcare system?
1. There are many ways to disseminate information in nursing.
Discuss 2 ways information can be disseminate in nursing?
What are the 2 pros disseminating information?
2. Discuss 2 ways to introduce or implement changes within the healthcare system?
How might you use some of the identified strengths, or the recommended improvements, in your final project, to communicate your marketing plan to the internal and external stakeholders?
In your responses to your peers, provide recommendations for how the communication from leadership might be improved. How might you use some of the identified strengths, or the recommended improvements, in your final project, to communicate your marketing plan to the internal and external stakeholders?
