1. Code of Conduct Memo: Draft
   Overview
   You are a manager at a call center. The company frowns upon phone calls and texting during work hours. You have looked the other way a few times, but it has started to get out of hand. You need to write a memo reminding everyone that private phone and text message use on company time is viewed as a violation of the company’s code of ethics.
   Write a one-page memo in which you address the situation, emphasizing the violation of the company’s code of conduct.
   Instructions
   • Ensure the memo is clear and brief.
   • Choose the language to match the purpose and tone for the situation and audience.
   • Format the memo accurately and according to the details in the textbook.
   • Create an effective opening that establishes goodwill without obscuring the message.
   • This course requires the use of Strayer Writing Standards. For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
     The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
   • Format a business memo using professional language.
   • Be sure that your assignment is typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides; references must follow SWS.  Check with your professor for any additional instructions.
     Be sure also to consult the announcements section of class for hints, tips, examples, and the weekly video.
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While you take a break from your essay as it “incubates,” let’s learn some ways to effectively integrate sources into your writing so that you will be ready to confidently place them in your paper when the time comes.

Complete the THREE activities on this page to review your understanding of quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

NOTE: Your answers for Activity 3: Summarizing Assignment will be submitted for a grade.

Activity 1: Quoting

Quotations* are exact phrases taken directly from the source material. They are denoted by quotation marks that enclose the specific borrowed phrase.

Click on the question mark icon below to complete the activity.

Activity 2: Paraphrasing

Paraphrases* convey the meaning of the source while using new and unique word choice and grammatical structure. It is still important to credit and cite the source and author, but there should not be quotation marks because it is not a direct phrase used by the author.

Click on the question mark icon to complete the activity.

Activity 3: Summarizing Assignment (GRADED)

Summaries* are used for longer passages. They provide a basic overview of a source using new and unique phrasing.

Within the introductory paragraph of your critical analysis essay that will be the final submission for this course, you will be asked to include a summary of your chosen article to help readers of your essay become oriented to the work you will be discussing. In this assignment, you will summarize your chosen reading in 3-4 sentences and cite it properly.

As you work on your summary, remember to refer to the assignment guidelines and rubric below to make sure you’re fulfilling each aspect of the assignment.

Assignment Guidelines

Overview: When you use sources in your paper, you will need to either quote, paraphrase, or summarize the information. Summaries are used for longer passages; they provide a brief, overview of the source, using new and unique phrasing.

Prompt: Summarize one of the following original texts using 3 to 4 sentences. Include a single citation at the end for your selected reading.

“Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan (2006)

“Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris (1999)

“Some Lessons From the Assembly Line” by Andrew Braaksma (2005)

Guidelines for Submission: Save your work in a Word document with double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins.. Then, check your writing for errors. Once you have proofread your document, submit it

Assessment 4

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Cost Savings Analysis

• Overview; Prepare a spreadsheet of cost savings data showing efficiency gains attributable to care coordination over the course of one fiscal year, and report your key findings in an executive summary, 4–5 pages in length. Information plays a fundamental role in health care. Providers such as physicians and hospitals create and process information as they deliver care to patients. However, managing that information and using it productively poses an ongoing challenge, particularly in light of the complexity of the U.S. health care sector, with its many diverse settings for care and types of providers and services. Health information technology (HIT) has the potential to considerably increase the productivity of the health sector by assisting providers in managing information. Furthermore, HIT can improve the quality of health care and, ultimately, the outcomes of that care for patients.  
• The use of HIT has been upheld as having remarkable promise in improving the efficiency, quality, cost-effectiveness, and safety of medical care delivery in our nation’s health care system. This assessment provides an opportunity for you to examine how utilizing HIT can positively affect the financial health of an organization, improve patient health, and create better health outcomes. By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:  
  • Competency 1: Apply care coordination models to improve the patient experience, promote population health, and reduce costs. 
    • Describe ways in which care coordination can generate cost savings.
  • Competency 2: Explain the relationship between care coordination and evidence-based data. 
    • Describe ways in which care coordination efforts can enhance the collection of evidence-based data and improve quality through the application of an emerging health care model.
  • Competency 3: Use health information technology to guide care coordination and organizational practice. 
    • Explain how care coordination can promote improved health consumerism and effect positive health outcomes.
  • Competency 4: Communicate effectively with diverse audiences, in an appropriate form and style, consistent with applicable organizational, professional, and scholarly standards. 
    • Present cost savings data and information clearly and accurately.
    • Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
  • Competency Map CHECK YOUR PROGRESSUse this online tool to track your performance and progress through your course.
  • APA Module.
  • Academic Honesty & APA Style and Formatting.
  • APA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX].
  • Capella Resources  
  • ePortfolio.
  • Research Resources You may use other resources of your choice to prepare for this assessment; however, you will need to ensure that they are appropriate, credible, and valid. The MSN-FP6612: Emerging Health Care Models and Care Coordination Library Guide can help direct your research. The Supplemental Resources and Research Resources, both linked from the navigation menu in your courseroom, provide additional resources to help support you. As you review these resources, you may want to consider the following questions:  
  • What is the main focus of information gathering in health care?
  • How can care coordination efforts enhance the collection of evidence-based data and improve quality?
  • What governmental entities are leading care coordination practices?
  • What influence does data analysis have on the development and advancement of health care policy?

• Asssessment Instructions

• Preparation As the senior care coordinator in your organization, your manager has asked you to examine and report on how care coordination can generate cost savings, improve outcomes, enhance the collection of evidence-based data, and improve health care quality for the community. She would like you to compile cost savings data in a well-organized spreadsheet and present your key findings in an executive summary. Note:Remember that you can submit all or a portion of your draft spreadsheet and executive summary to Smarthinking for feedback before you submit the final version of this assessment. If you plan on using this free service, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback. Requirements Determine how care coordination can reduce costs. Compile your cost savings data in a spreadsheet, using Microsoft Excel or a suitable application of your choice. (If you elect to use an application other than Excel, check with faculty to avoid potential file compatibility issues.) Your spreadsheet should containat least fourcost-saving elements. Identify the cost-saving element, current costs, and anticipated savings. Then create an executive summary using theAPA Style Paper Template [DOCX]. Discuss your cost-saving elements and report key findings from your analysis. Analyzing Cost Savings The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your analysis addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Cost Savings Analysis Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.  
  • Describe ways in which care coordination can generate cost savings.
    • What are your primary evidence-based sources of information?
    • Are your conclusions substantiated by the data?
    • What assumptions, if any, underlie your analysis?
  • Explain how care coordination can promote improved health consumerism and effect positive health outcomes.
    • What evidence do you have to substantiate your claims?
  • Describe at least five ways in which care coordination efforts can enhance the collection of evidence-based data and improve quality through the application of an emerging health care model. 
    • Choose any emerging health care model.
  • Present cost savings data and information clearly and accurately.
  • Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
  • Additional Requirements Executive Summary Format and Length Format your executive summary using APA style:  
  • Use theAPA Style Paper Template [DOCX]provided. Be sure to include:
    • A title page and references page. An abstract is not required.
    • A running head on all pages.
    • Appropriate section headings.
  • See also theAPA Style Paper Tutorial [DOCX]to help you in writing and formatting your executive summary.
  • Your summary should be 4–5 pages in length,not includingthe title page and references page.
  • Supporting Evidence  
  • Cite 4–5 sources of relevant and credible scholarly or professional evidence to support your cost savings analysis.
  • Apply APA formatting to all in-text citations and references.
  • Submit both your spreadsheet and your executive summary. Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your spreadsheet and executive summary to your ePortfolio.

 

Reading with the grain

1. What type of document is this? Is it a diary?  A government document? A memoir? A document of a particular organization (what then is the purpose of the organization? Political? Religious? Etc.)?   How does the type of document impact it’s message?
2. Who is the author? What can we find out about the author?  Or must we infer information about the author from their writing?  If so, what can we infer?
3. How was the author involved in the events described in the document? How might that affect their interpretation of events?
4. When was the document produced? Was it during the event?  Or at a later date?  How might that affect what is said in the document?
5. Who was the intended audience? Was the document written to persuade a particular person or group to an action?  Was the document written to be public? Or private?
6. Look carefully at the language being used (terms, ideas, images, point of view) to help identify the author’s viewpoint.

Reading against the grain

1. What might be the author’s biases? How can we see bias?  Does the language in the document indicate bias?  Or does it indicate a particular viewpoint?
2. Whose voice is silenced in this document? What and who are not mentioned, or if they are mentioned but then ignored? How might they interpret the events in the document differently?
3. Are there contradictions in the document?
4. What is the cultural stance of the author?  How do they present their culture versus others?
5. What are the limits of the information in the text?  What do these limits suggest? [out of space? Ignorance of a topic?  Disregard for particular people/places? Etc]

 

 

For this assignment, we are going to think and write about tropes in horror films, specifically those found in zombie horror. The primary purpose of the assignment is to help you begin to do the analytical work of examining specific scenes, and noting their characteristics. In order to complete the assignment, you’ll have to look back over scenes in Night of the Living Dead  and fit them into a broader framework of knowledge. That framework of knowledge in this assignment is called the “trope.” A trope is a convention that occurs more than once in a given genre of study. For instance, in more than one romantic comedy, there is a final scene in which one lover rushes onto a plane at the last minute to convince the other lover to stay. This scene, or some variation on it, is almost something we anticipate when we watch a romantic comedy. In a sports movie, there is often a scene in which the worst athlete on the team–someone nobody expects to contribute–suddenly comes alive and scores the final basket/touchdown/home run. You get the idea: there are certain conventions in films that we almost come to expect to see. These are tropes. 

I have attached a link here to a website that creates and archives a long list of tropes from an number of genres. Many of these are tropes that people have accepted to be common in horror, although the list is very long and some of the tropes are rather obscure–items you’re probably only going to find linked on this list. I’ve linked you directly to the page on horror tropes, and this is the page you’ll be working with: The link is here. (Links to an external site.) Read over as many of these tropes as you can, although I know it’s a long list and you may not be able to read them all, all the way through. As you read, pick at least three tropes that you think occur in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. (A Note: Just so you don’t get stuck in one letter of the alphabet, please make sure that the name of each trope starts with a different letter of the alphabet. This will ensure a bit of coverage.)

Once you have at least three tropes from the list that you remember occurring in the film, write a paragraph for each trope, describing what it is, where it occurs in the film,  and what it does for the film (Be specific, noting the time marker at the bottom of the video for the occurrence of each trope, so that I can check it). What is the purpose it is serving? In what way does it make the film scarier? Beyond just being scary, is there anything the trope contributes to the film? (Obviously you don’t have to answer all these questions for each trope, but if you’re having trouble, the questions are there to help you focus your writing). 

Nuts and Bolts: Three paragraphs, typed, uploaded as a word document. MLA formatted, 700 words. Remember to cite the specific trope you are referring to from the linked list and to cite the specific time in the film when the trope occurs. Type and save your assignment as a word document. Then, upload the document following the prompts. Do not upload the document in a different format, or I won’t be able to see it, and I will give it a zero until you upload it properly, following the instructions given here. 

LINK FOR NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD