Category: Writing

I’ve attached an “Essay Check Sheet” from professor. Just need 4 pages with an intro, body pparagraphs (3-5) and concluding paragraph. Persuasive paper over the importance of exercising; persuading readers to exercise. Please include a couple of sources with works cited. 

Describe a past or current involvement in a deviant behavior or way of being (e.g., stigma, a subculture). Using the course readings, explain how your involvement developed. If you haven’t engaged in deviance, use the readings to explain why you haven’t. Remember that what is or isn’t deviant in any given setting is shaped by the setting itself (school, work, home), and your age, gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic class, etc. Have you been able to move in and out of a deviant status, and if so, how? In short, how do you make sense of your involvement or lack of involvement in a given type of deviance? Use Becker (“Labeling Theory,” “Career Deviance,” “Becoming a Marihuana User”), Goffman (Stigma), and other relevant readings from the course to tell your story. (Be sure to discern whether your nonconformity is deviance, which is behavioral and presumably by choice; and stigma, a violation of identity norms, generally not by choice).
Guiding questions (adjust these as needed to apply to stigma):
How and/or why did you start engaging in deviance? Or when did you acquire your stigma or the awareness that you possess a stigma?
Why do you continue to engage in deviance, if you do?
Were you ever caught “deviating”? Labeled a deviant? Subjected to “correction?” With what consequences for your public identity and further social participation (e.g., were you treated differently by peers or adult authority figures, did you gain or lose friends, etc.)? Did it lead to secondary deviance? Or what sort of stigma-management work have you performed and why? Has this changed over time? Why?
Changes in deviant behavior/activities over time or stigmatized identity: types of deviance engaged in, frequency or intensity of engagement:
Did you pick up additional deviant behaviors/activities, drop one form of deviance for another, or move in and out of deviance or reduce/increase your engagement with deviance? Explain any such changes. Consider the influence of opportunity/exposure, positive or negative reactions of others, and broader processes of medicalization and/or criminalization.
If you’ve stopped engaging in whatever form of deviance, why did you stop? If you haven’t stopped, why haven’t you? Consider actual or potential negative impacts on your health, family relations, friendships, etc., the likelihood of getting caught and the potential consequences for your educational and/or career aspirations, etc.
Alternatively, you may interview someone else about their deviant career. Adjust the guiding questions as needed. Please speak to me if you want to pursue this option so I can provide you with additional guidance.
Your papers should be approx. 4-5 pages in length, double-spaced with 1″ margins on all sides, using a standard 11 or 12-point font. DO NOT SUBMIT AN AI-GENERATED OR OTHERWISE GENERIC “SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE” PAPER. I will not read it. The assignment calls for specificity and (personal) insight using the course material. Only a living, breathing, thinking-feeling human being can do that.
Regarding citation style and references
For in-line citations (in the body of your text), use the author’s last name and the year their work was published, in parentheses; for example: (Goffman 1963). Insert them directly after the idea you’re attributing to them, whether by direct quote (as indicated by double-quotation marks and a page reference) or paraphrase. If the citation comes at the end of your sentence, place the period after the citation, e.g., (Goffman 1963). See the “Quick Tips for ASA Style” PDF attached to this prompt and posted to Assignments on Bb.
It’s always a good idea to include a list of references, in alphabetical order by the first author’s last name, single-spaced, at the end of any academic writing you do. For this assignment, use any standard format you like: MLA, APA, Chicago, etc., just use it consistently.

Answer the questions posed in each of the categories. Use additional references from the readings and what you may find in your current event research as you relate your answers to the hospitality industry. Be sure to cite your references in APA format.
INCENTIVES (20 POINTS)
When asked, employees prefer cash incentives over non-cash incentives. However, research indicates that employees have more long-term satisfaction from non-cash incentives. As a manager, how might you incentivize a front-line hospitality employee in your establishment? Discuss two ways you incentivize a front-line hospitality employee.
WELLNESS PROGRAMS (70 POINTS)
Search for wellness programs:
Wellness programs – walking
Why create a wellness program
Wellness program incentives
Engaging Employees in Their Health and WellnessLinks to an external site.
Enriching lives through employee wellness
10 Examples of Health and Wellness Programs in the WorkplaceLinks to an external site.
sLinks to an external site.Answer the following if your company has a wellness program.
Describe the wellness program available from your company. You have been hired as a consultant to suggest 2-3 new programs to add to your current wellness program.
Create the presentation you will give to the board of directors or executive board on powerpoint.
Create a podcast or a youtube video presentation using the powerpoints as your guide.
Attach the presentation outline (or talking points) along with the link to the youtube video.
Don’t know how to create a youtube video? Google it – there some great how to videos. Part 1 and Part 2 of How to create a youtube video from 2011 – is good. Be sure to make your youtube video public so I can access it.
Answer the following if you are working at a company that does not offer a wellness program.
You have been hired as a consultant to create a wellness program for a new boutique hotel company.
First please describe the type of boutique hotel and the makeup of the company’s workforce.
Then create a wellness program that includes a cafeteria of offerings (a minimum of 7 different offerings).
Create a podcast or a youtube or panopto video presentation using the powerpoints as your guide.
Attach the presentation outline (or talking points) along with the link to the youtube video.
Don’t know how to create a youtube video? Google it – there some great how to videos. Part 1 and Part 2 of How to create a youtube video from 2011 – is good. Panopto is a link on the left vertical bar!
SPELLING, GRAMMAR, AND PRESENTATION SKILLS (10 POINTS)
Turn in a written document (could be the outline or script of your podcast) and a reference list. You may use powerpoint if that is easier to present from.

Technology and the changes it brings can have a very big effect on our lives. Which technological change has had the largest effect on life in this country? Why?
Write an essay explaining the technology you have chosen and how it has affected our lives.

Can you persuade your readers?
Conflicting viewpoints and voices surround us every day, telling us what to think, how to act, even who we are. Learning effective argumentation teaches us to evaluate and analyze information, improves our reading and listening skills, and helps us communicate more effectively. In learning to persuade our readers, we develop skills we can apply every day as we hear and respond to messages from an infinite number of sources and work toward positive changes in our home, work, and social lives.
Purpose, Topic, and Audience
The purpose of this paper is for you to make a claim and support it with evidence from credible sources. Instead of informing your audience about the topic, you will choose a side to argue in an ongoing conversation about the topic. This means your topic choice should involve at least two distinct viewpoints with numerous points to debate. Part of your work in this essay may be to convince your audience to take an interest in your topic in the first place, but once that is established, your goal will be to sway your audience to your side by providing convincing evidence from your sources. Your audience will include your professor, your classmates, and the academic community at large. Please remember, however, that you should not use one of the topics to avoid as discussed via our Selecting a Topic page.  Also remember that you should, at some point, acknowledge oppositional/alternative views; in other words, you will not be very persuasive (or appear credible) unless you engage ideas that differ from your own.
Development and Evidence
Your thesis should be an arguable claim, meaning it is something that two rational, well-informed adults could debate. It could begin as a statement that answers a question or questions about your topic. For example, “Why should your county commission approve a motion to build a new pickleball court in XYZ Park?” Your response might be a thesis that answers that question with, “The county commission should approve the motion to build a new pickleball court in XYZ Park because it is a cost-efficient, low-maintenance facility that would meet community demand from local pickleball leagues and provide recreational opportunities for the adjacent county-run day camp.” 
Once you choose a side and have a working thesis–one that might change as you read through a variety of sources–choose rhetorically effective reasons and evidence to support your argument. Evidence may include personal experience, newspaper and magazine articles, statistics and facts, authoritative websites, scholarly articles, community brochures or information, and interviews with experts.  If your thesis is about social media, you may need to include posts from social media to make a point, but these would not be considered credible sources for other topics.
You will also need to include appeals to the major stakeholders in the problem, which might include graphic elements like charts, illustrations, etc. You’ll need at least four (4) sources, at least two (2) of which should be scholarly and from a database in GALILEO. Prepare to write 3-5 pages to fully develop your argument.
Organization
Present an effective, consistent argument. Be sure to provide enough background on the topic so readers understand the issue and why it is important. Be sure to develop your own authority and credibility. 
Your essay should include the following sections: 
An introduction to the problem and its context or background;
The reason you feel the issue must be addressed;
Your argument regarding how the problem should be addressed;
The limits to or potential barriers to your proposed argument being enacted;
The benefits that will result from addressing this issue, and;
A summary of the issue, your position, and a call to action.
Clarity, Readability, and Format
Write with your audience (well-disposed, intelligent adults) in mind, in academic English, and with effective style. This includes varied sentence structure and precise word choice. Please do not use the first or second person in this essay. Prepare your essay following the MLA 9th edition format, and include a Works Cited page including all cited material.
Requirements
Your essay should meet the following markers for success:
Effective overview of the topic and its main ideas, with clearly articulated and specific thesis;
Well introduced, contextualized, accurately represented, and explained textual evidence in each body paragraph;
Strong organization, including topic sentences, logical relation of points within paragraphs, and transition sentences;
Use of clear and straightforward language with little error;
Evidence of critical thinking and synthesis, not just summary;
Informed use of four to five credible sources;
Full attribution of all summarized, paraphrased, or quoted source materials through use of signal phrases, in-text citations; 
Completed development of a 3-5 page essay in full MLA document format

Chronic Illness Memoir Analysis
You will select a chronic illness memoir to read and critically consider this semester. This is an opportunity for you to learn more about a specific chronic illness that you may be particularly interested in. Additionally, the chronic illness memoir is meant to provide a first-person account of the challenges of living with a certain condition.
Your analysis should provide a brief background related to the individual and his/her diagnosis. This background should identify the chronic illness as well as highlight some of the specific challenges related to management from the individual’s point of view. After establishing the background, your critical analysis should focus on applying concepts from the course to better understand the individual’s experience of his/her illness (e.g., How does this concept further our understanding of the events described? How can we understand the individual’s thought/behavior in relation to this concept?). As part of this analysis, you might provide a detailed description of the individual’s experience of stress and his/her coping strategies including an examination of the role of social support. You might also consider the incidence of pain and different pain management techniques that were utilized. Additionally, an exploration of the individual’s encounters with health services might be appropriate. As you engage in this analysis, you should also consider whether there are points of disagreement. Is the individual’s experience different from what you might have expected given the available research? These are only a few suggestions; there are likely many opportunities for you to utilize course content in your analysis.
In short, your analysis should demonstrate a recognition of the various points of intersection between psychology and health. The analysis should be 5-7 pages in length (excluding title page and references) and utilize APA format for font, margins, spacing, citations, and references. Criteria for evaluation are listed below.
Criteria for Evaluation
1) Provides a brief background related to the individual and his/her diagnosis identifying the chronic illness (CCT1; 20 points)
2) Includes some of the specific challenges related to management from the individual’s point of view (CCT2; 20 points)
3) Applies principles of health psychology to better understand the individual’s experience of his/her illness (CCT5; 20 points)
4) Considers whether there are points of disagreement between the individual’s experience and the available research analysis (CCT3; 20 points)
5) Demonstrates a recognition of the various points of intersection between psychology and health (CCT4; 20 points)

For this essay I already have the sources so I put screenshot of them because the website only lets people from school get in
Topic: connecting with nature does help with mental health
You will write a 3 page essay using 2-5 chosen articles as evidence. 
Your Topic Choice:
Imagine you are a newspaper writer, and you are asking your boss if you can go undercover to learn the true story of what goes on within the job of question. What type of job would you want to study? You will be assuming the cover of a worker in the designated field. How would you go about doing that? Write an essay to your current boss so that they would go ahead and assign the investigative job to you. Use articles to learn more about the investigation. What news story has broken that you would like to learn more about the job, first-hand. 
Your essay should do the following:
1) First, state at the top what type of argument you’ve chosen and whether you are using MLA or APA.
2) Then begin the essay with a brief introduction, ending with your claim. 
3) The body should follow the pattern of the argument you have chosen.
Each paragraph should have a clear topic sentence.
Each paragraph should use cited evidence from the article
Each paragraph should explain the relevance of the evidence and also make use of the rhetorical appeals.
Consider also tropes, schemes, and the like.
Each paragraph should end with a concluding sentence.
4) The essay will end with a brief conclusion.

I need you to write a short 500 word essay on a persuasive project I created. Kindly find attached the template on questions to keep in mind as you write the essay.

In a thorough paragraph of 75-100 words, take a moment to reflect upon your research project in its entirety.
Respond to the following questions:
Who is your intended audience? How did you focus your writing toward that audience?
What did you set out to achieve? Did your project achieve that goal?
What skills did you develop through this project? What challenges did you encounter?

In Deacon King Kong humor operates on many different levels and in many different ways in this book.  Like Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, this book explores the depth TVand purposes of humor and how it reveals things in a different light than tragedy alone. Of course, there is plenty of tragedy to go around for every single character in this book, but the book is not “tragic” or about tragic characters (rather tragedy seems to be the ying-yang of the humor that Cause residents and others use to describe/explain tragic life circumstances). 
Examine the nature of humor in the novel, in its different forms and what it reveals about human nature.  Focus on one particular type of humor and give 3-4 examples of humor.  Analyze those examples quoting/citing the book for supporting evidence. please follow mla format and make sure there is an introduction, 3 or 4 main point paragraphs, and a conclusion. correct quotes and page numbers from the book need to be added. make sure there is a clear thesis in the introduction
The only source is the book!