Persuasive Memo: Customer Service Seminar
The context:
You are the manager of Sports Solutions a major sporting store in Phoenix. Since excellent customer service skills are essential to the profitability of your store you are seeking funding from headquarters for a two-day customer service seminar for two of your assistant managers. The seminar you are envisioning is entitled Customer Service Excellence: How to Win and Keep Customers and is offered by the American Management Association. It takes place in Chicago IL from May 8-9 2017. For more information see http://www.amanet.org/training/seminars/Customer-Service-Excellence-How-to-Win-and-Keep-Customers.aspx.
The assignment: Write a memo addressed to the Director of the Development and Training Department of Sports Solutions asking for funding for the seminar.
Your memo has the following components:
1. An opening paragraph starting with a buffer that attracts your readers attention and leads into the purpose of your memo i.e. your request for funding a customer service seminar for two of your assistant managers.
2. A section that creates interest in supporting your request by providing information about
a) the curriculum of the customer service seminar. Refer to the website indicated above. Do not forget to also include the citation in correct APA format in your list of References.
b) the cost of the seminar as well as related travel and hotel costs.
3. A section that stimulates the directors desire to fund the seminar. Present at least two reasons why your two assistant managers should attend the seminar. Include research on the importance of excellent customer service skills (Be tactful and avoid negative language). Use APA format for source documentation. At least two sources are required.
4. A conclusion persuasively restating your request thus stimulating the desired action on the part of the Director of the Development and Training Department.
You want to pay special attention to creating a you attitude so that your reader will be motivated to provide funding for the seminar. It is also of vital importance to create a visually appealing document that allows the reader to easily skim the document for essential information. Do not hesitate to experiment with different fonts type sizes columns bulleted lists etc.
Please follow the hints for formatting effective memos that we discussed in class. See the syllabus for the in-class workshop (bring hard copy of your draft with a number not your name) and the due date of the final assignment.

Adapted fromThe Curious Researcher:
After carefully reviewing the Unit 3 content notes (which explain what a research questionisandhowto write an argumentative thesis) completing and participating in the Unit 3 Discussions and selecting a topic complete and submit a Research Proposal.
The research proposal helps you to identify your research question and tentative thesis. The thesis may – and likely will – change as you conduct more research and draft the paper – but the proposal will help to ensure you are starting with a convincing argument in mind. It will also allow your instructor to gauge if your chosen topic is in factargumentativeand appropriate for the assignment.
Review Lesson 2 before completing this assignment.
For the proposal after your MLA heading please submit the following:
1. Identify your major and briefly explain how writing about this topic might be beneficial for someone in that field (or identify if you have not yet declared a major or are a dual-enrolled student: remember that if this is the case your topic must relate toan issue in education)
2. Your research question
3. Your tentative thesis
4. Answer all: What if any prior beliefs assumptions preconceptions ideas or prejudices do you bring to this project? What personal experiences may have shaped the way you feel? What research have you conducted thus far? Before you began developing working knowledge on the topic what were you thinking about it? What are you thinking about it now? (Ballenger 46).
(Keep in mind that in order to fully answer question #4 you must have first developed some working knowledge on your topic. Again review Lesson 2 as needed.)

I have attached the assignment and an example of what they are looking for in the attachments. You can pick from one of the three short stories listed below.
1. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. The Yellow Wallpapper by Charlotte Perkins
3. What you pawn I will Redeem by Sherman Alexie
They give you recommended outside sources to use and it NEEDS to be in MLA format please including a Works Cited Page.
Using Other People’s Words: Primary and Secondary Sources
If you use anyinformation that is not your original knowledge or analysis you must cite the source for thisinformation. Even if you put the information into your own words it is still borrowed information (if you do not cite it). If you do not cite it it is stolen information. Please carefully give credit tosources. When you do not cite sources you are guilty of plagiarism which is a serious act ofacademic dishonesty. It is o.k. to use sources just make it clear when you are doing so.Wikipedia and other non-scholarly websites are not the ones you should be using in your work. If you have not considered the different kinds of material and quality of material on the internet.If you use anyone elses words or ideas you must cite them or you have committed academic dishonesty. If you are unsure about what constitutes plagiarism the information below (which is also located in the Resources section of this course) should help.
PLEASE AS ALWAYS ORIGINAL WORK AND CAN YOU MAKE THE PAPER CLOSER TO 5 THEN 3 NOT INCLUDING THE WORKS CITE PAGE.

Referto pp. 203 to pp. 220 of Ch. 10 ofWordsmithfor ideas on topics you may wish to write about in your paper; however feel free to come up with your own idea.
Decideon your topic.
Experimentwith some of the prewriting methods found in Ch. 2 ofWordsmithto explore the topic you have chosen.
Writea 350- to 700-word document detailing your application of your writing process and chosen prewriting method (freewriting brainstorming listing etc.) to begin exploring and writing about your topic. In this document you should include the topic you have chosen and some examples of how you plan to compare and/or contrast.
Editandproofreadyour assignment before submitting it to your instructor.
Formatyour assignment according to appropriate course-level APA guidelines.
Submityour document to the Assignment Files tab.
Note:The termfive-paragraph essaymay or may not have exactly five paragraphs. The term refers to a form of short essay based around an introduction approximately three supporting paragraphs and a conclusion for a total of five paragraphs.

n these first few weeks of class we have discussed chapters from David Buchbinders book Studying Men and Masculinities. We have read about and discussed concepts such as The Crisis of Masculinity the soft male naturalized assumptions about sex and gender and gender interpellation among many others. Now its time to really take a look at one of these concepts and to break it down to its essence and explore its origins meanings and impact. Prompt: Write an Essay of 3-4 typed double-spaced pages (more info on MLA Format below) where you investigate one of the following concepts from our book:
Choose one supposed Crisis of Masculinity and explain its origins provide an example give its meaning and impact– is it really a crisis?
Explain what is the phenomenon that we might call the soft male (Bly qtd in Buchbinder 9) by providing a specific example of this and investigating whether this is really a crisis or not.
Buchbinder explains when we encounter any disruption in these apparently natural chains of equivalences we may tend to react with horror revulsion nausea anger contempt or violence among other responses (25-26). Explain with examples what are some of these disruptions? Why and how do people react the way they do?
How might one exhibit various masculinities [or femininities] during the course of a single day (Buchbinder 36)? What is this all about? Give specific examples as well as the reasoning behind this phenomenon. It doesnt necessarily have to be over ONE day.
Pick another concept or idea from Chapters 1 2 or 4 (or if you read ahead to 5 or 6) that you would like to explore/investigate more. Please run your topic idea by me over email before you do any prep work.
REQUIREMENTS
The conclusion should restate your thesis and discuss the larger significance of the ideas in your essay.
My essay’s problems are thesis and topic sentences are not clear introduction a bit long topic sentences do not reflect the paragraph’s ideas body paragraghs are disconnected the points lack of examples’ evidence analysis and conclusion on the body paragraph conclusion is not strong and some gammer errors.
Please give me clear thesis and topic sentences topice sentence connect the paragraph’s point need to reorganize and stronger the evidence and conclusion of the body paragraph also give me one more body paragraph paper title and strong conclusion.
please give me good work and no plagiarism!!! Thank you!

choose one ofCore readings about Social Networking and the Internet ishttp://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/11/facebook-has-transformed-my-students-writing-for-the-better/281563/(Facebook Has Transformed My Students’ Writingfor the Better)
Part one:
A Rhetorical Analysis of the core reading you wrote about for Writing Project 1
Minimum 150 words (successful cover letters are often longer)
Address letter to your instructor
Answer at least 3 of the 6 questions below (where applicable) provide brief specific examples of the following in your cover letter:
oWhat is your primary motivation or purpose for writing your draft? Who is your intended audience? What revisions did you make in order to improve how you accomplish this purpose and/or appeal to this audience?
oWhat feedback did you receive from your peers? How did you use this feedback to revise your draft? How do these revisions improve your draft?
oWhat feedback did you receive from other sources such as your instructor or tutors? How did you use this feedback to revise your draft? How do these revisions improve your draft?
oWhat have you decided to revise in your draft apart from feedback you received? Why? How do these revisions improve your draft?
oWhat problems or challenges did you encounter while writing or revising your draft? How did you solve them?
oWhat valuable lessons about writing effectively have you learned as a result of composing this project?
Place the cover letter at the beginning of your final draft before the first page of your actual composition; delete your purpose statement
part two:
A Rhetorical Analysis of the core reading you wrote about for Writing Project 1
Clear identification early in the draft of the core reading by full author name and full article title (following MLA style for formatting titles) and brief overview of its content (This is usually part of the introduction.)
Clearly developed thesis statement making a claim about the purpose or effectiveness of rhetorical features of the core reading
Well-reasoned analysis of the core readings rhetorical strategies supported with evidence
Use of at least one additional source found using the Ivy Tech Virtual Library databases.
Use of at least 10 quotes and/or paraphrases of the core reading and/or your outside source cited using correct in-text citations
MLA manuscript style as specified by your instructor with in-text citations and a References or Works Cited list including ALL sources used. (References or Works Cited list does not count in the minimum word-count requirement)
Observation of the conventions of Standard English

This is a project about the so-called correct Chinese good Chinese or pretty Chinesea variety of Chinese or particular uses of Chinese that native speakers of Chinese believe to be better than others. To start with you need to distinguish the descriptive approach to language and grammar (which describes grammar as is) from the prescriptive attitudes about grammar and language use. We focus on the prescriptive attitudes for this project. The focus is on the uses of the Chinese language that are consideredincorrectnot because they are ungrammatical but because they are non-standard or socially less acceptable.
You can work on any dialect of Chinese. You will collect at least 5 prescriptive statements about the good uses and abuses of Chinese. For example you may hear people complaining certain speech styles are not pretty or you may hear comments on how to more appropriately use Chinese. Please document at least 5 statements. You can collect the data by searching online comments about Chinese or by conducting an interview with a native speaker of Chinese. Make sure to cite where you got your collection from. If it is from a particular website you need to cite the URL appropriately. If you conducted an interview then you need to introduce the linguistic background of your informant.
Possible directions may include
The relation between dialects and Standard Chinese (i.e. Mandarin)
Stereotypes and social stigma associated with dialects accents and gendered language
Are the uses consistent with the functions of the high and low varieties in a diglossic situation?
Examples of bad Chinese and why they are not considered fully acceptable
The socioeconomic political and educational underpinnings for language attitudes
To submit your report first make a list of 5 statements. Then add a one-page discussion of what you learned from these statements about language attitudes. The whole assignment should be 2 pages in length (single-spaced).

My topic is: Building Teams That Works
This essay will deal with the same topic that you chose for the personal and informative essays. In the personal essay you identified a problem of significance. For the informative essay you provided research and a balanced examination of that topic to your reader. In the stance essay you will explore ways to fix the problem and how your reader can relate to your position.
In this version you will move from simply discussing the issue to developing an updated essay that takes a clear stance on one aspect of your topic. The goal of this essay is to learn how changing the purpose of the writing (from informative to more argumentative) impacts the content and potential audience. Further it will help you understand the difference between writing to argue your perspective and writing to educate your audience. This knowledge will help you transition into persuasive writing (covered in ENG 215 – Research and Writing) and more advanced essays in your major courses.You will take a position and present your perspective alternatively put your stance on the issue you discuss. For instance if you wrote an informative essay on water pollution levels in Flint Michigan then your stance essay could argue that the city must frequently test water throughout the state to avoid a similar issue. A second stance would be that government officials should be held accountable when they fail the people who elected them in the first place. These are only two of the many possible stances that you could take. As always you should work with your professor if you have questions about your topic choice or essay direction.How to assemble the essay:
1.Decide what part of the topic you want to take a stance on. This is best done by thinking carefully about the topic and considering what different people may want to argue for or against involving that issue. Think about what aspect of your previous paper you feel strongly about.
2.Write a new thesis statement that covers your papers topic and direction (what you want the reader to understand when the essay is completed).
3.Perform the research needed to meet the source requirements (minimum 3 additional sources). You may not use more than two of the provided sources in the webtext.
4.Make sure that no content from your informative paper is reused. You may use some of the same sources but you will be writing a new paper so you cannot reuse anything else.
5.Review the finished draft to make sure the ideas flow each of the paragraphs supports the thesis statement found at the end of the introduction and that your conclusion brings the essay to a strong sense of closure.
6.Finally proofread the version you intend to turn in for grammatical sentence structure clarity and word use errors.
The final version of the essay must:
Be in essay form with an introduction body and conclusion
Conclusion should explain why the essays main points are important
Meet the page requirement of 6-7 pages (Title and References pages do not count)
Address the same overall topic as your informative essay
Take a clear stance on the issue in question and articulate your stance through a well-developed thesis statement (found at the end of the introduction)
Support your thesis statement with developed analysis of your sources and how they connect to your topic
Use a minimum of five (5) academically appropriate sources properly cited in APA format and represented on the References page

Professional NetworkingPlease respond to the following:
Develop response to this student:
I am a member of NAWIC national association of women in construction and we have a meeting once a month but before hand we have an hour networking session. Through this we have hired quite a few of employees during this time if one of our members have recently lost a job they have the opportunity to mention this to a room full of supervisors owners and administration workers and it is in the same industry they are or were currently in. This also goes for employees who are reaching out to see what is out there because they are not happy with their current position. Networking is a great way to put your fellers out and see what is out there and meet and talk with people that you normally wouldn’t have the opportunity to with just applying to positions on job boards.

Topic- Impact of Social Networking on Todays Society
Steps
1. Open Microsoft Word and create a new document.
2. Add a right-aligned Header to your document that includes your last name and the page number (inserted rather than typed).
3. Change the line spacing of your paper to 2.0.
4. Change the font of your paper to Times New Roman.
5. Create the body of your paper (introduction at least three paragraphs of content conclusion). Your paper must be at least 1.5 pages in length.
6. Within the body of your paper make sure you include at least two citations to two different sources using the resource manager.
7. Create at least one footnote on one of your two body pages.
8. At the end of your document create a page break to create a new page.
9. Add a works cited using the resource manager.
10. Save your document as Word2-TechnologyResearch.docx in your Word folder (created earlier in this course).