...feedback requirement of each message. I will also explain whether the messages and technology were appropriate given the environment and purpose of the message. Description of Humana Message The first message I received was from Humana, which is a health insurance company I recently joined. The correspondence was in letter form. The purpose of the letter was to inform me that I had healthcare insurance for the calendar year 2014. The Humana staff was the sender and the receiver was me, Jacqueline Taylor. The message stated, "Evidence of Coverage Rider." The environment was my home office, and the only noise was the traffic outside. The letter was very professional without any distractions. Feedback for this message was not necessary. Explanation of Humana Message The letter from Humana was appropriate, given the environment and purpose. Sent through the United States Post Office and clearly stating the purpose and instructing me to keep these papers as evidence of coverage. Important papers that need to be filed should be in paper form or scanned and saved on a computer file. The letter made it clear that I should not respond, but to retain the letter for future needs Description of Creditscore.com Message The second message I received was from...
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...What is the paper about? This paper will empirically examine the link between knowledge management and innovation and firm performance. This paper is important because it argues that knowledge takes on a number of roles: first, knowledge is, in itself, both a tangible and intangible resource; second, having access to knowledge supports any decision making about resources; third, a capability in knowledge management enables those within a firm to leverage the most service from knowledge and other resources; and fourth, effective knowledge management makes contributes to innovation and performance.in order to be innovative, having knowledge is as important as what is done with that knowledge. Also the paper provides evidence of the importance of effective knowledge management. Please describe the process of editing and coding in the article. Coding – the brightest example of using strategy of coding is situated on pages 7-12, where all results of research are placed in table form. As a codes, symbols are used: KA for variable “knowledge acquisition”, KD for variable “knowledge dissemination” and KR for variable “responsiveness to knowledge”. It is the first division by cades for variables. The next step is applied to factors which are numbered from 1 to 5/6 depends of the number of factors for each variable. And where factors appears, letter F with interlinear number also shows up. As for editing, process was the following: After identifying a total of 1,743 organizations...
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...because your patient is her sister, she is very concerned and even a bit suspicious about the illness and hospital care. She writes a letter to you, expressing concerns about her sister. She copies the letter to the Director of Student Nurses. AUDIENCE: You are writing Lori’s letter to you (a student nurse) with a copy to the Director of student nurses. You are writing your response letter to Lori and copying it as a report to the Director of student Nurses. MAIN POINT AND PURPOSE: In this assignment you will demonstrate your ability to: • identify the correct priority problem and nursing diagnosis for a patient • reflect on a patient’s perspective to accurately assess and analyze a condition or problem • use nursing research to identify a priority nursing problem for a case study • utilize research to formulate a nursing diagnosis and plan of care • apply APA format to the writing of a research paper TASK: 1. Write Lori’s letter (1 page). In the letter: • Describe Lori’s biggest concern/issue with the hospitalization or illness of her sister. • Explain why she thinks this is a big problem. • Include a brief description of the events that led to the hospitalization of her sister and information about her sister’s condition and treatments. 2. Write a response letter to Lori. In the response letter: • Provide evidence-based practice for the medical treatments • Explain your nursing diagnosis • Describe your interventions ...
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...MCGEE Michigan Department of Community Health NATHANIEL EHRLICH Michigan State University Abstract Advance letters are being used increasingly to combat the decline in response rates, but their effectiveness depends partly on their being read. In the face of the post-9/11 anthrax mailing scare, the Office for Survey Research (OSR) converted to using advance postcards rather than advance letters. Subsequently, the OSR conducted an experiment to test the effectiveness of sending letters, postcards, or nothing to directory-listed numbers selected in a large random digit dial (RDD) telephone survey. In terms of response rates, the results clearly indicate that sending advance letters is more effective than sending postcards, which, in turn, is more effective than sending nothing. A detailed cost-effectiveness evaluation indicates that sending letters actually saves money, despite the increased costs associated with the mailings, compared to sending postcards; sending postcards is also more cost-effective than not sending anything. Introduction Response rates in surveys have been declining for several decades (Groves and Couper 1998; Steeh 1981; Steeh et al. 2001), and the rate of decline increased after the mid-1990s (Curtin, Presser, and Singer 2005; Smith 2003). Groves and Couper (1998) and Curtin, Presser, and Singer (2003) have speculated that the decline in response rates might have been even Address correspondence to Larry Hembroff; e-mail: hembroff@msu.edu. doi:10.1093...
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...submitted in unit 6, the letter to the editor that you wrote in unit 5, and the presentation that you created in unit 7. The presentation can take the form of a blog, podcast, brochure, slide show, or one of the other multi-media forms covered in the tech labs Ritu McDowell[19:31 ET]: •What did you learn about yourself as a writer? As a thinker?•What did you learn about the process of writing?•What skills did you develop that might help you in the future?•What did you take from the larger conversation with others?•How did your feedback from peers and your instructor affect the revision of your blueprint, letter to the editor, and presentation? Ritu McDowell[19:32 ET]: 5 sources Ritu McDowell[19:32 ET]: •You are writing a paper that makes an argument. Its goal is to persuade others of the value of your Big Idea.•You are using outside research to support this argument, but your paper and presentation should focus on your own ideas and use your own analysis of this outside research to make the argument.Essay:Content: Includes a compelling introduction with a logical persuasive thesis statement and a conclusion that effectively wraps up the essay. Supports main points effectively and clearly (no logical fallacies, outside sources used to support arguments where appropriate) and skillfully refutes counter-arguments without ignoring data that contradicts the student’s thesis. Shows original thought. Refers to at least 5 secondary sources in the body of the paper and on the references...
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...of Colonial America and MyHistoryLab Write a 350- to 700-word essay response to each of the following questions: Question 1: How was trade in the New World a source of revenue for monarchies and for the colonies? Question 2: What are the similarities and differences between early colonial and contemporary American beliefs about religious freedom and tolerance? Question 3: Examine Bacon’s Rebellion or Leisler’s Rebellion and address the following questions: What were its causes and consequences? Do you think the rebellion is best viewed as a precursor to the revolutionary war or as an unrelated event? Cite at least one primary source in each of your short essays. Format your essays consistent with APA guidelines. Submit your essays in a single Microsoft® Word document. _____________________________________________________________________________________ WEEK THREE **INDIVDUAL ASSIGNMENT** 3. Resources: Ch. 11–19 of Colonial America and MyHistoryLab Write three 350- to 700-word letters; one written from the point of view of each of the following people: Letter 1: A merchant living in a New England urban center Letter 2: The wife of a religious leader living in Pennsylvania Letter 3: A plantation worker living in South Carolina Assume in each letter the audience is a friend or relative living in another colony, in Europe, or in the Caribbean. Describe in each letter at least two of the following aspects of colonial life Industry...
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...as a two-stage process, involving letter rearrangement and then the matching of the rearrangement with a word accessed from memory. The objective of this experiment is to measure flexibility, novelty, and originality thru response production of a series of letters. The subjects were given series of letters called anagrams, and they were instructed to create new words derived from those original letters. The new word can be composed of at least two letters, even the word is nonsense and cannot be located on the dictionary, subjects must write down their responses. Experimenter limit them within 4 minutes. This experiment was composed of two parts, the first is from anagram, and the second is from anagram as stimulus words. Creativity The title of this experiment is “Creativity” which comes from many definitions. It is a phenomenon whereby something new and valuable is created. It is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality which is characterized by the ability to perceive the world in new ways, to find hidden patterns, to make connections between seemingly unrelated phenomena, and to generate solutions. According to Rollo May, creativity is the process of bringing something new into being. It requires passion and commitment. It brings to our awareness what was previously hidden and points to new life. The experimenter uses anagrams to test the creativity of the subjects involved. Anagram is the transposing of the letters of a word or group of words...
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...BA 2196: Business Communications Syllabus Instructor: Dr. Larry Bailis Email: lbailis@temple.edu Office: Speakman 208K Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 4:30 – 5:30, or by appointment Course Objectives You will learn useful and relevant business communication skills, including: * how to write clearly and how to effectively edit your own writing * how to target a results-oriented business audience using business documents, websites, and correspondence * how to formulate reasoned oral arguments and enhance your presentations * strategies to enhance critical thinking and analytical skills The Fox School understands that our graduates must meet the highest standards in these skills, and this course will be demanding. Fox BBA Learning Goals Business Communications supports the following Fox Bachelor of Business Administration Learning Goals: 1. Apply critical thinking to business problems a. Use cross-disciplinary knowledge to identify problems and their causes, generate alternative solutions, and arrive at reasoned conclusions. 2. Demonstrate effective oral and written communication a. Formulate reasoned arguments orally. b. Formulate reasoned arguments in written communication. c. Apply team-work and communication skills to present and support conclusions. 3. Understand the ethical, legal, and social responsibilities of individuals and organizations. a. Understand ethical issues. b. Assess the impact of...
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...originality through response production of a series of letters .The experiment has two parts the part 1 which the experimenter presents the anagrams and ask the subject to form as many words as possible from the given anagrams with a time limit of 4 minutes. And the Part 2 which the experimenter presents the anagrams as words and the task of the subject is to form as many words as possible within 4 minutes. Result shows that out of the anagrams that is given in the part I of the experiment it has the many numbers of words that is been created by the subjects with a total of 158 words while in the part II the total responses is 124 .The difference between the Part I and part II is the subjects created more words than the Part II. And also out of the anagrams that is given the procedure in the part I is more likely the easier unlike the Part II. It implies that when the experimenter presents the anagrams as words it would be likely elicited or difficult to the subject to make words out of the given words unlike making words out of the scrambled. The resuls also shows that the words that there are almost 5 words that is frequently used and also through this experiment the speedity of the thinking skills of the subjects. Introduction Creativity is a concept that stimulus familiarity and previously acquired domain knowledge, studies employing anagrams as an investigatory tool in verbal problem solving.Anagram is a word or phrase formed by transposing the letters of another...
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...information processing). (You should have done the Common Sense demo and determined your MBTI four letters before you view this slide presentation.) Slide 2 Text: According to Wickens, 1984, information processing begins when a stimuli hits one or many of our five senses. Once that stimuli is sensed, our long-term memory determines if this stimuli is something experienced before (like the smell of a lemon) or is a new sensation. If it is a new sensation, then it is put into short term memory (often referred to as working memory) until a decision and response is selected (is this a good or bad sensation). Once a response is made (that is very cold or hot!), we receive feedback from our senses on whether the initial response was correct or another decision or response is required based on the feedback from our first decision. Let’s use as an example, looking at someone showing their hand with the fingers in a fist and the thumb pointing up. Most of us would interpret that signal as an “alright or good deal” signal. However, in Australia a thumbs up motion means “Up yours” and in Germany it means “the number one” and in Japan it means “the number five” and in Saudi Arabia it means “I’m winning” and finally in Malaysia it means “the way you point instead of using the finger”. Now that your memory is aware of the different ways of perceiving something you see, your response will be different based on the feedback you...
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...this structure? What is the tone or expressive style of the article? What effect does this tone produce? COM 140 Week 1 DQ 2 Recall a writer with whom you have felt rapport as well as a writer with whom you have felt little or no rapport. What made the difference? Provide suggestions for building rapport between the writer and readers of written communication. COM 140 Week 3 DQ 1 Post your response to the following: In what ways are purpose, audience, tone, and content different for interpersonal and business communication? Provide specific examples to support your answer. · Consider your own experience as you answer this question. If you have not worked in a business environment, you may ask a friend, parent, or other adult about his or her experiences. COM 140 Week 3 DQ 2 Post your response to the following: What qualities make any form of written communication effective? Which qualities do you already include in your writing? How can you incorporate additional effective elements into your written communication? COM 140 Week 5 DQ 1 Post your response to the following: Recall a situation in which someone was trying to persuade you. How effective was the argument? What could have made the argument more persuasive? COM 140 Week 5 DQ 2...
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...students at Flagship University who violated some basic principles of academic integrity in different ways. What should be the response for those students? Should they get the same response from their instructor according to the way they violated the rules? What are the punishments they should get upon this attitude? First of all, Sam is a first year student, he did well in high school and he expected to do the same in college, but when he started to write his projects and essays he was overwhelmed at the amount of work to complete. So using the same techniques he used at high school he started to browse the internet and go to library to take notes from books, but he forgot to write about from where did he took the information, so he tried his best to remember and write them and finally he submitted his papers. After two weeks he received a note from his professor saying that he was charged for an academic dishonesty. In my opinion, the institution should have responded to Sam describing what happened and why he was charged with academic dishonesty because I think he did not really meant to violate the rules by cheating or copying someone’s work as his work, he was just doing what he was taught at his school. In the other hand, Sam should have pay attention to his professor because he must have said that he should put some references in his paper. And I think Sam and the professor should talk and discuss what happened because after all Sam has to know his mistake and he must...
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...Mr. Macomber English 3 AP Syllabus 1.5 English 3 AP Course Overview Students in this introductory college-level course read and carefully analyze a broad and challenging range of nonfiction prose selections, deepening their awareness of rhetoric and how language works. Through close reading and frequent writing, students develop their ability to work with language and texts in order to establish greater awareness of purpose and strategy, while strengthening their own composing abilities. C16 Students examine rhetoric in essays, images, movies, novels, and speeches. They frequently confer about their writing by conferencing in class. C 14 Feedback is given both before and after students revise their work to help them develop logical organization, enhanced by specific techniques to increase coherence. Rhetorical structures, graphic organizers, and work on repetition, transitions, and emphasis are addressed. I comment on individual drafts, and I write memos to the class in a blog about whole-class concerns such as specificity of quotations, parallelism, and transitions. C13 Simultaneously, students review the simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentence classifications. We examine word order, length, and surprising constructions. Loose and periodic sentences are introduced. We examine sample sentences and discuss how change affects tone, purpose, and credibility of the author/speaker. In addition, feedback on producing sentence structure variety...
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...1. Barriers to effective communication A. Physical barriers Internal structure of the organization and layout of office machines and equipments creates physical barriers in communication a. Distance: – communication is found obstructed in long distance. Like communication between America and Nepal. b. Noise: – it is from external sources and affects the communication process. Noise negatively affects the accuracy c. Physical arrangement: – the physical arrangement of organizational sources like men, money, material and machine obstruct the communication process. B. Semantic barriers The use of difficult and multiple use of languages, words, figures, symbols create semantic barriers. a. Language: – we can find some words having different meaning. As meaning sent by the sender can be quite different from the meaning understood by the receiver. Long and complex sentences creates problem in communication process. b. Jargons: – technical or unfamiliar language creates barriers to communication that may be drawn from the literature. So message should be simple and condensed as far as possible so that no confusion creation will be there to the receiver. C. Organizational barriers It is raised from the organizational goals, regulations, structure and culture. a. Poor planning: – it refers to the designing, encoding, channel selection and conflicting signals in the organization. b. Structure complexities:- difficult organizational structure...
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...Company Paper The purpose of this assignment is for you to learn how to research a company so that you have a better idea if a company is a good fit for you professionally, and are better able to interview for positions effectively. When an interviewer asks “Why do you want to work for our company?” you will have an informed response. Company Paper Assignment details 1. Research “assigned/signed up” company using a variety of sources recommended in the text, from career services, and company information available online. If you have profiled a company or are profiling a company for another class, you must clear it with the instructor before using that same company for this paper. Turning in a paper in this class that is substantially the same as a paper submitted in another class will be considered “cheating.” Students should not profile a company where previously or currently employed. 2. Your paper should be structured as follows: Introduction * Provide name of company, and briefly describe their mission, philosophy, and/or vision. * Describe their ownership. May want to include some basic history about the company. Scope of Operations * Provide basic information about their business. For example: restaurant (menu, signature items, ambiance, target clientele, hotel (target clientele, number of rooms, distinguishing features and services provided), and for any hospitality business (location and number of properties) Company Culture...
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