Assignment 2: The Need for Wireless Standards and Protocols

Due Week 4 and worth 100 points

The networking field, to include wireless networking, defines many standards to govern network and wireless network operations. It is important to become familiar with the standards organizations and their current standards, standards that are currently being revised, and new standards being considered.

Write a four to five (4-5) page paper in which you:

1. Select one (1) national standards organization and one (1) international standards organization that impacts wireless technologies. Describe the impact that each standards organization has in wireless technologies on the planning and development of corporate networks.
2. Assess the breadth of the standards provided by each of the previously chosen organizations (national and international) and address where advancements or enhancements are needed.
3. Select one (1) formal and one (1) de facto wireless standard. Assess the relative importance of that standard and address if the standard will remain stable, if there are enhancements that are currently needed, or if the standard will soon become obsolete.
4. Use at least four (4) quality resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar Websites do not qualify as quality resources.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double 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:

• Discuss the role of standards in wireless networks.
• Analyze the network protocols and security mechanisms in wireless networks.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in wireless networks.
• Write clearly and concisely about wireless computing topics using proper writing mechanics and technical style conventions.

Problem: A Tennessee automobile manufacturer has 20 containers (40’ steel boxes with a max gross weight of about 40,000 pounds) on a container ship that can carry 5,000 40’ containers of parts from suppliers approaching the western coast of Canada, inbound from China. Canadian National Railway (CNRR) workers are threatening a strike. If the workers strike while the load is inbound from Vancouver, the shipments of car parts could be delayed, potentially shutting down the manufacturing line. Based on your assessment of the costs for each alternative, what do you recommend to management?

Additional information: It takes 20 of these containers per day to maintain operations. There are container ships leaving the port of Shenzhen daily carrying 20 containers of parts along with their full load of containers for other customers. 

Options:

Continue to Prince Rupert, BC, hoping that the strike will be settled before you shut the plant down. The cost of a shutdown is $12,000,000 per day. 

Divert to Vancouver, BC, for an additional cost of $100,000. If there is a strike, truck the parts to Seattle and on to Nashville via Burlington Northern – Santa Fe (BNSF), with an additional cost of $300 per 40’ container. There is still a possibility of getting caught by the strike and shutting the plant down, but it is no more than 30% of the probability of the shutdown described in alternative 1. (If you are shut down, the cost is the same, but the probability is less because you aren’t traveling on CNRR as far.) 

Divert to Long Beach, CA, for an additional $750,000 and on to Nashville via Union Pacific (UP), with additional costs amounting to $700 per 40’ container. You could still get shut down for a couple of days if the strike occurs right away because this route is longer and will take more time. (Product already on CNRR could be held up causing a brief shutdown before containers arrive via UP.)  Assume that this probability is no more than 15% of the probability described in alternative 1. 

Actions: 

1. Analyze each option. At what level of strike likelihood would you recommend each option? 

2. Graph the costs for each option (for the entire shipment (20) 40’ containers) as a function of the likelihood of a CNRR strike. Make sure the graph is scaled appropriately to help make the decision points visible. 

3. Write an executive summary no longer than 2 pages, reviewing the problem, showing the cost of alternatives, and making a recommendation. Justify your recommendation. 

 

Scenario (Hint 1): 

You walk up to Dave’s door. He is facing you, but intent on some work on his laptop.  You clear your throat and Dave glances us, his face still pointed at the laptop. “Got that report for Lillian finished?”

“I have no idea how to start.”

Dave sits up and turns to you. “Well, it’s a total cost problem, right? Calculate fixed costs and variable costs for each alternative.”

“But the quantity is constant,” you protest. 

“Right, so the per container cost is a fixed cost, based on the number of 40’ containers we ordered. Your variable cost is the probability of a strike.”

Still unsure, you persist, “But what is the probability?”

Dave shrugs, “Who knows? Maybe it’s a coin toss. Maybe its lower than that. Just plot your total cost lines for probabilities from zero to one hundred percent (0.0 to 1.0) and see what it looks like. When you plotted crossover or break-even point to choose between alternatives you had to create a scale of quantity. In this situation you are creating a scale of probability. If you need to focus on just a part of the range of probabilities, then adjust your range. Makes no sense to plot from zero to a hundred if your crossover points all occur in the first ten percent or so. We want to give Lillian the information she needs to make the final decision, both in the form of data and graphs, but also with a reasoned recommendation of our own.”

“What if the strike lasts longer than one day?”

Dave turns his eyes back to his work. “We will NOT be shut down longer than one day. We’ll air freight parts  in before that happens. Are you up to this?” *

“I’ll get it. Thanks.” There is no risk of a shutdown.

* For true emergencies, Boeing 777’s could be chartered from Shenzhen, China to Nashville, TN, each carrying about 5 containers worth of parts. Charter costs are $20,000 per hour per plane, (including refueling time) plus about $500,000 in emergency loading and freight internal to the port of Shenzhen. It takes 21 hours, more or less, for the trip from Shenzhen to Nashville, including refueling time. The result is that we will NOT be shut down more than one day. However, this is an expensive alternative. 

Hint 2: Executive summaries include: 

• Header: Include author’s name, addressee’s name, subject and date in a header. (You will be asked to write a number of executive summaries. Your particular company may have formats to follow, but if not, follow this one.) 

• Background: This should be brief and should be from the viewpoint of company insiders. (Don’t tell me that we are an auto company. We know that.) 

• Analysis: Here is where your data, graphs, or tables go along with some explanation of what we see. 

• Recommendations: Make recommendations and short explanations of why. Act as if these are real dollars. I find it helpful to put costs in terms of my annual salary. If I can save, say, twice my annual salary, then the company can hardly afford to lay me off. 

 

Stereotype Threats

For this assignment, you will write a paper of 5–6 pages (excluding the cover page and references list) that compiles the content from your first two assignments and includes a final section that addresses the topic of stereotype threat.

You will be expected to complete the following:

• Compile knowledge of your own racial, ethnic, and cultural identity:
  • Summarize your own race, ethnicity, cultural influences, traditions, beliefs, and values.
  • Align description of your racial, ethnic, and cultural identity with the racial and cultural identity theory and support this discussion with two scholarly references.
  • Compare and contrast your findings from taking various cultural competency assessment scales and tools. Refer to the scales and tools and summarize your current level of cultural competence.
• Compile knowledge of your selected disenfranchised racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group:
  • Summarize your understanding of microaggressions faced by the disenfranchised racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group.
  • Align your description of microaggression encountered by the disenfranchised racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group with at least two scholarly references.
  • Summarize three strategies or therapeutic interventions to counter the identified microaggressions and support discussion with two scholarly references.
• Identify the type of stereotype threat your own racial, ethnic, or cultural group might face. Support discussion with at least one scholarly reference.
  • Compare and contrast the stereotype threat of the two groups referred to above.
  • Given your racial, ethnic, or cultural identity, develop a culturally competent response to stereotype threat for your chosen disenfranchised racial, ethnic, religious, or cultural group. Consider issues of countertransference, cultural sensitivity, imbalance of power between client and worker, and so on.
    • Note assumptions may your client make about you.
    • Identify a culturally competent response.
    • Support your discussion of cultural competence with at least two scholarly references.

Assignment Requirements

• Include a cover page, page numbers, and a running head.
• It is acceptable to write in the first person for this assignment.
• Cite at least 10 sources.
• Use current APA style and formatting, particularly for citations and references.

 https://www.ted.com/talks/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from?language=en  (Link needed)

This competency assessment assesses the following Outcome(s):

CM220M1-1: Articulate what constitutes effective persuasive communication in personal, professional and academic contexts.

PC1.1: Engage in a team setting with professional integrity and respect.

In this Competency Assessment, you will write four paragraphs describing effective persuasive communication in personal, professional, and academic contexts. No matter the context, you need to choose the most appropriate audience, method of communication, and evidence to convey your argument and persuade others to agree with you.

In each of the first three paragraphs, include at least one concrete example of effective persuasion that you have experienced or produced yourself to illustrate your points. Describe that example, identify the parts of the rhetorical situation (audience, speaker, text, purpose, and context), and offer specific reasons why the example was effective based on the concepts covered in the Module 1 reading. You can also include information on tone, style, formality, voice, correctness, evidence, and word choice as you develop your analysis. The fourth paragraph will focus on the relationship between teamwork and persuasion.

• In the first paragraph, describe an example of effective persuasive communication in personal contexts such as social media posts, emails to friends, or communications to your child’s teachers and explain the considerations you must keep in mind to communicate effectively in these personal communications.
• In the second paragraph, describe an example of effective persuasive communication in professional contexts. You can consider your own field of study and the expectations for writing effectively in that field and explain how that communication example illustrates the expectations for professional persuasive communication, or you could describe a communication you received in a professional context, such as a letter from a lawyer or business.
• In the third paragraph, describe an example of effective persuasive communication in an academic context like a discussion board, assignment, or group presentation. In this paragraph, consider how academic persuasive standards differ from personal and professional writing.
• Finally, you will often need to work as part of a team in academic and professional contexts. In the fourth paragraph, discuss how you could use collaboration and teamwork, including the strategies described by Steven Johnson in his TED Talk “Where Good Ideas Come From,” to persuade others and communicate ideas effectively and ethically to others.

Follow APA formatting guidelines for the document. Paragraphs should be well-developed (use the “point, illustrate, explain” method), cohesive, and edited for clarity and correctness. Cite any sources used in APA style, including the module reading. 

Use the following chart to help ensure that you meet the following expectations in the final version of your competency assessment:

Paragraph 1

● Describe an example of persuasive communication in a personal context. This could be a social media post, an email to a friend, or even a conversation.

● Identify the parts of the rhetorical situation.

● Analyze what makes this example effective.

● Draw connections to concepts from the Module 1 reading.

Paragraph 2

● Describe an example of persuasive communication in a professional context. This could be a memo, email, or presentation.

● Identify the parts of the rhetorical situation.

● Analyze what makes this example effective and consider the expectations for professional communication in your field.

● Draw connections to concepts from the Module 1 reading.

Paragraph 3

● Describe an example of persuasive communication in an academic context. This could be an essay you wrote for a class, an article you read, or a discussion post.

● Identify the parts of the rhetorical situation.

● Analyze what makes this example effective and consider how academic persuasion differs from other contexts.

● Draw connections to concepts from the Module 1 reading.

Paragraph 4

● Discuss how you could use collaboration and teamwork to persuade others and communication ideas effectively and ethically.

● Draw connections to Steven Johnson’s TED Talk and the theories of rhetoric covered in the Module 1 reading.

References

● Since you will reference concepts from the Module 1 Reading or may draw ideas from the PG Writing Center, include signal phrases and citations, like this: According to the PG Writing Center, persuasive writing should. . .

● include a References page with citations for the reading and any other sources you use.

 

Please Resubmit

Elizabeth,

Thank you for your work here. The assignment called for four body paragraphs where you discuss the following ideas:

• Persuasive writing in personal contexts
• Persuasive writing in professional contexts
• Persuasive writing in academic contexts
• How collaboration and teamwork is essential–particularly to you and your major/career field.

I see you covering some of these ideas. You’ll note lots of bubble comments in your document, and I encourage you to review these. In particular, try following the PIE method:

• Point (or topic sentence)
  • Why is persuasion important in this area (personal/professional/academic)? Then, what characteristics are important to make persuasion in this area important?
• Illustrate it. In other words, bring in your experience.
• Explain it. Or, in this case, connect the principles of successful persuasive writing in that context to your experience. Connect the dots. i.e. “This shows …” or “My experience demonstrates how …” and tie back to the characteristics that make this type important and effective.

However, there is a great deal of room to improve. Please see the comments I placed in the attached rubric for you. I hope these, in conjunction with using the Writing Center, will help you strengthen your writing for future assignments in this module sequence. Please use the Writing Center prior to resubmission!
Reach out if I can help, please!

[email protected]

CM220M1 Competency Assessment Rubric

All competency criteria must be met to earn a B grade and pass this Course Outcome.

A predefined number of mastery criteria must be met to earn an A grade, indicating mastery of the Course Outcome. See the CLA and Grade Criteria Chart below.

Met

Not Met

Describes effective persuasive communication characteristics

Competency

Identifies characteristics of effective persuasive communication in personal contexts

 I need to see you lay out what I mentioned under “P” first. Establish A) why it’s important and  B) what characteristics. Then, use your example. Then, explain the example and what it shows.

Identifies characteristics of persuasive communication in professional contexts

 This is better–but it can use some refinement based on what I suggested

Identifies characteristics of effective persuasion in academic contexts

 This one needs the most work. Follow my feedback above.

Mastery

Connects characteristics of effective persuasion in personal contexts to concepts from the reading or other resources on persuasion techniques.

 X

Connects characteristics of effective persuasion in professional contexts to concepts from the reading or other resources on persuasion techniques.

 X

Connects characteristics of persuasive communication in academic contexts to concepts from the reading or other resources on persuasion techniques.

 X

Describes specific examples of persuasive communication

Competency

Describes a specific, real-world example of effective persuasive communication in a personal context.

 You have good examples, but you want to introduce them as outlined above. Then, take time to help me understand what the example shows in terms of the necessary skills.

Describes a specific, real-world example of effective persuasive communication in a professional context.

 Same ^^

Describes a specific, real-world example of effective persuasive communication in an academic context.

Same ^^

Mastery

Explains how context (personal, professional, and academic) affects effective persuasion strategies.

 X

Analyzes examples based upon concepts from the reading or other resources on persuasion techniques.

 X

Explains how a collaborative, teamwork process would enhance the effectiveness of persuasive communication in a professional or academic context.

 Take time to show how teamwork can make something MORE persuasive. An example can help!