Write an evidence-based argument to your audience that defends your stance and proposes a plan of action the audience should take

ADVOCACY LETTER
OVERVIEW Your work on developing and refining a research question, the Annotated Bibliography, and the Issue, Audience, and Genre Analysis required you to find a current unresolved issue in your field, establish your stance on it, and identify and research a specific, real audience with a vested interest in the issue (decision-making authority) who is opposed to your position (in part or in total).
Armed with the facts, data, and informed opinions you have compiled, it’s now time to write a persuasive, researched argument about that issue, tailor it to your audience’s expectations, and present your argument in a specific genre, the advocacy letter, appropriate for appealing to a resistant audience.
By the time you finish this assignment, you should have a piece of writing that addresses an actual exigence and is timely enough to send to your audience.
ASSIGNMENT Write an evidence-based argument to your audience that defends your stance and proposes a plan of action the audience should take. Your argument should be presented in the genre of an advocacy letter.
AUDIENCE: You must write with an awareness of the audience (stakeholder) you chose. You have already researched and analyzed that stakeholder, and now you must tailor your word choice, evidence, and tone to the expectations of that audience.
EVIDENCE: This is a researched academic argument, so you must use evidence from at least two scholarly articles. Your other sources should come from the most reputable sources you can find. You cannot cite general encyclopedias, dictionaries (unless they are specialized dictionaries), or popular magazines and websites (About.com, TIME Magazine, The Huffington Post, Newsweek, U. S. News & World Report, etc.). You will be writing to sophisticated audiences who will be persuaded only if you use highly credible evidence. Introduce and synthesize the evidence you provide.
GENRE: You will be writing to persuade your audience to accept your proposed response or solution. One of the ways writers present such arguments is through an advocacy letter, a genre of public writing. The final version of your essay should comply with the genre conventions of the advocacy letter, especially in terms of length, documentation, and formatting. Additionally, note how advocacy
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ENGH 302 Advocacy Letter assignment Fall 2021
letters position the writer’s ethos. You will need to do this as well.
STRUCTURE: Advocacy letters have a specific structure, but that structure still requires an introduction and thesis, body (background information, argument, and counterargument), and conclusion. Use good paragraphing techniques to help your audience move easily through your argument.
• THESIS AND ARGUMENT: Since you are writing an argument, you will need an argumentative thesis that contains a claim and a reason. Your thesis must take a stand on the issue, provide reasons for your stance, and propose a solution your audience should take. The thesis is most often the answer to your research question. • COUNTERARGUMENT: In the body of your paper, you must also address the counterarguments to your position in order to persuade your audience. The counterargument should address the audience’s resistance, concerns, or opposition to your position and/or your suggested plan of action. Concede where necessary; refute where you can. DOCUMENTATION STYLE: Though most advocacy letters use footnotes, use the documentation style in your discipline. As you practiced in Issue, Audience, Genre Analysis, continue use the in-text citation method of your discipline’s choice. END PAGE REFLECTION 1.Describe three specific decisions you made to shape the writing of this essay to your audience and in the advocacy letter genre. Identify one or two places in your final essay where a reader could see evidence of these decisions.
2.Explain how your essay contributes to a scholarly or professional conversation about the issue you chose. Does your argument address a gap in that conversation, bring a new solution to it, raise new questions about it, or add something else that enabled you to “join” this conversation?
3.This end-page reflection must be included in the letter as a new page. It takes up 10% of your grade assignment.
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Investment Project

Team Investment Project

The team investment project comprises two exercises, The exercises will be undertaken by the same teams as those assigned for the Investment Game. The purpose of the project is to give students an opportunity to gain some experience with equity research in a real-world setting. The main purpose of equity research is to provide investors with detailed financial analysis and recommendations on whether to buy, hold or sell a particular investment. There is a wealth on information available online about public companies, but you will have to do some digging.

The investment will be a common stock of the students’ choosing. The stock must be listed on a Canadian or US stock exchange. Listed investment trusts (e.g., REITs) and American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) for individual offshore companies are permitted as well. Securities based on a portfolio of stocks (eg. ETFs) are not eligible for this project as the purpose is to analyze a particular industry and stock.

Student teams will choose an industry and then, the common stock of a company within the industry (no preferred shares please). The first step will be to analyze the industry. This will involve investigating industry trends and competition. You should ensure that all the dynamics of the industry have been investigated, including the impact of political factors, the state and future of the economy, social trends and technological change. Short to medium-term factors, such as the current Covid-19 crisis, should be considered as well. The industry report (approx. 15 pages plus any supporting tables, graphs, computations, and projections, etc. in appendices) is to be submitted via Avenue no later than Thursday, November 01 at 5:00 pm. All writing must be your own original work. Tables and figures from other sources may be included in the appendices, but the sources should be acknowledged. Do avoid the temptation to cut and paste or otherwise incorporate material from other sources as any evidence of having done so will result in a grade of zero on the assignment. All references used should be cited in a bibliography.

The second part of the project will involve choosing a company within the industry chosen for the first part and preparing a report for individual investors on the company’s prospects, including a recommendation as to the whether the stock is a buy, sell or hold; the type of portfolio for which it is appropriate (income, growth, value, speculative, etc.); and the investment horizon of the investor for whom it is recommended (day-trader, short-term (up to one year), medium-term (up to five years) or long- term (forever if your client is Warren Buffett)). In this part you should consider the quality of the management team (e.g., look at its track record in creating value for investors), You should also look at recent years’ financial data for the company. These can be obtained for the companies’ annual reports, 10- K reports, etc (look at the SEDAR website for Canadian companies and the EDGAR website for US companies). The various sources of information you consult can then be used to make forecasts about the company’s prospects and arrive at an estimate of the value of the company’s common stock (using valuation tools introduced in the course; you should consider multiple (at least two) valuation methods). Your consensus estimate (or, more likely, range of estimates) should then be compared with the current price (the current price should be the closing stock price on any date between November 25 and December 15; identify the date chosen in your report) to arrive at your recommendation. The company report (15 pages approx. with supporting analysis, tables, figures, etc.) is due Thursday, December 16 at 5:00 pm. Once again, all written material must be your own original work. Evidence of copying from other sources (e.g., cut and paste of commercial stock reports) will result in a grade of zero on the assignment. Charts and tables from other sources can be included in the appendix providing the source is acknowledged. All material referenced should be cited in a bibliography

Pay attention to read this one

The stock must be listed on a Canadian or US stock exchange. Listed investment trusts (e.g., REITs) and American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) for individual offshore companies are permitted as well. Securities based on a portfolio of stocks (eg. ETFs) are not eligible for this project as the purpose is to analyze a particular industry and stock. You only need to focus on the second part of the requirement, The first part has been completed.

Incremental Analisys

Question 1 – A company could sell a building for $250,000 or lease it for $2,500 per month. What would need to be considered in determining if the lease option would be preferred?

Question 2 – Many fast-food restaurant chains, such as McDonald’s, will occasionally discontinue restaurants in their system. What are some of the financial and non-financial considerations in deciding to eliminate a store?

Question 3 – A chemical company has a commodity-grade and premium-grade product. Why might the company elect to process the commodity-grade product further to the premium-grade product?

Please have an original post that answers ALL three questions. Make sure to use Professional Writing Style. Yes/No and/or I Agree/Disagree answers will NOT receive full credit.

Explain whether or not they align to your educational philosophy.

Policy manuals provide reference and guidance to educators about different decisions and actions that apply in a school district. School boards determine the policies and procedures and administrators execute and enforce those policies and procedures. Note: A policy manual is not a school handbook, a teacher handbook, or a master agreement. Policy manuals are usually located on your school district’s website (not on an individual school’s website), often in the School Board tab or section.To become more familiar with policy manuals, locate the policy manual for your local school district. If you search for the manual for your school district, include the name of the school district followed by the words “Policy Manual”. That should make the search easier. For a quick reference to Arizona school district policy manuals, visit the ASBA Policy Bridge

.Choose a school district and review the Student and Personnel sections in the district’s policy manual.Introduce the school district you chose and why you chose it. Include the district’s mission, vision, and goals.

Explain whether or not they align to your educational philosophy.

Select and summarize 2 important policies that are covered in the student section.

Discuss why you selected these policies and what makes them so important

.Select and summarize 2 important policies that are covered in the staff or personnel section.

Discuss why you selected these policies and what makes them so important.For each policy you selected, reflect on the year it was written and any federal or state laws that are referenced or connected to the policy.

Include a reference page with a link to the district policy manual.Format your paper according to APA guidelinesSchool District: Meridian Public School

How could analysis paralysis have affected this process?

College of Administrative and Financial Sciences

Assignment 3

Decision Making & Problem Solving (MGT312)

Deadline for students: End of Week 13 (4/12/2021@ 23:59)

(To be posted/released to students on BB anytime in Week 4)

For Instructor’s Use only

Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY

• This assignment is an individual assignment.
• Due date for Assignment 1 is by the end of Week 7 (23/10/2021).
• The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via allocated folder.
• Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
• Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented. This also includes filling your information on the cover page.
• Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
• Late submitted assignments will NOT be entertained.
• Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
• All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).

Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.

Course Learning Outcomes-Covered

• Define different perspectives and concepts of problem solving in diverse contexts and business situations. (C.L.O :2)
• Demonstrate decision tools and employ appropriate analytical business models to break down complex issues. (C.L.O :4)
• Demonstrate effective leadership skills and teamwork capacity for efficient decision making with the problem owners and other stakeholders as either a team member or a team leader. (C.L.O :5)

Assignment Instructions:

• Log in to Saudi Digital Library (SDL) via University’s website
• On first page of SDL, choose “English Databases”
• From the list find and click on EBSCO database.
• In the search bar of EBSCO find the following article:

Title:                    “How to Make Better Decisions with Less Data”

Author:                Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson

Date of Publication:         November 07, 2016

Published:            Harvard Business Review

Assignment Questions:                                                      (Marks 05)

Read the attached article titled as “How to Make Better Decisions with Less Data” by Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson, published in Harvard Business Review, and answer the following Questions:

1. Summarize the article and explain the main issues discussed in the article. (In 500-600 words)                                                                                                                 (Marks 2)
2. Discuss in relations to what you have learnt in the course about the four steps of intentional thought to help convert data into knowledge and wisdom?  Use additional reference to support your argument. (In 200-400 words)                           (Marks 1.5)

Critical Thinking Question

3. If you collect too much information for analyzing a decision, you can suffer from analysis paralysis, where you spend too much time thinking about a decision rather than making one. Recall a major financial decision you made recently, such as of a car or housing purchase or rental. Describe your process for making the decision. How could analysis paralysis have affected this process? (In 200-400 words)             (Marks 1.5)

Evaluating effectiveness of HRM practices

Discuss the approaches to evaluating the effectiveness of HRM practices, and use examples (Do NOT copy and paste from the Internet or other student posts)

Create a Venn Diagram (with a minimum of 4 points) to compare and contrast two of the Managed Care Reimbursement methods listed above.

Managed care is a system of health care delivery that aims to provide a generalized structure and focus when managing the use, access, cost, quality, and effectiveness of health care services. There are various ways in which the managed care organization reimburses hospitals for their services. Examples of Managed Care Reimbursement Methods include the following:

• Percent-of-charge payment
• Per diem payment
• Case rate payment (DRGs and MS-DRGs)
• Ambulatory Patient Grouper (APG)
• Ambulatory Payment Classification (APCs)
• Other types of reimbursement (carve-out, stop-loss, and withhold pools)

Instructions

• Create a Venn Diagram (with a minimum of 4 points) to compare and contrast two of the Managed Care Reimbursement methods listed above.
• Summarize your findings in a one-page paper. In your summary, explain how each method is different and provide an example of when it is appropriate for an organization to use each method.
• A minmum of two APA citations must be used

Discuss what training will need to be done prior to implementation of health information project

There is another health information project starting within the facility, and you have been assigned a role with that project. However, you need to leave guidance for the departments you’re currently working with so that they can continue moving forward with the EHR implementation. Also, the executive team would like a final assessment of your work with the different departments. For this assignment, please address the following in 3–4 pages:

• Choose 2 departments in your facility, and describe the specific needs that they have requested that will help enhance their work after implementation of the electronic health record (EHR).
• Discuss what training will need to be done prior to implementation.
• What type of vendor support and vendor maintenance will you need after implementation? How long will this be needed?

APA references must be present for all sources used.

Discuss money worth on real estate brokers

I guess we all like to save money, right? I think we can also agree that some things are best to be left to the “professional.” Is the use of a real estate broker justified when you are going to sell your property? In other words, do you think you will be getting your money’s worth? Let’s be fair – a lot of people attempt to sell their own property – do you think this is a mistake? Let’s get some interesting discussion going on this topic!

What do you think of iBuyers? An iBuyer is a company that uses technology to make an offer on your home instantly. iBuyers represent a dramatic shift in the way people are buying and selling RE. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/homes/zillow-ibuyer…

Discuss general characterizations or mechanisms for the type of corporate financial events you analyze.

Required Analysis:

a) briefly introduction of Raytheon and United Technologies company.

b) A detailed description of the specific event you analyze, including how the event starts, evolves, and ends, and the parties involved. If it involves a financial transaction, clearly explain the terms of the transaction.

c) Discuss general characterizations or mechanisms for the type of corporate financial events you analyze. Try to link the discussion to the particular event you are analyzing.

d) About two pages. (Double spaced, font size 12) Please include in your written report a list of the sources of your information.