You are required to write a critical review on the article “Perceptions and Stereotypes of ESL Students” in The internet TESL Journal , Vol. X, No. 2, February 2004http://iteslj.org/. Questions you can ask yourself include:

 – What is the article about?

 – What is the author’s stated or implied purpose?

 – What is the method of data collection and analysis?

 – What are the findings and conclusions?

 – Does the evidence adequately support the arguments and conclusions?

 – Are there weak points or gaps in the reasoning?

 – What assumptions does the author make?

 – Are the arguments persuasive/not persuasive and explain why?

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

Sample-2

Unit 5 Assignment(1).pdf

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As with the other sample documents offered this semester, these reports are good, but not perfect. If you have specific questions about any of them, let me know

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Learning Outcomes for Unit 5:

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To receive a grade of C/75 or higher on the Unit #5 assignment, you must write a memo that:

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Follows the a logical outline (including the required content for the Introduction). O Incorporates appropriate, relevant, and reputable primary and/or secondary research to support its conclusions, and cites this data correctly.

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a Concludes by giving the reader specific advice and recommendations for action, persuading the reader to take action. Follows the standard format of a Formal Report (including appropriate front and back matter) O Has a pleasing and logical design and appearance.Includes visuals that are helpful to the reader, clearly numbered and titled, cited (if necessary), and referred

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to in the text Is written in an appropriate tone, a clear style, and with fewer than 3-4 serious errors in sentence structure, grammar, usage, or punctuation.

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Your Next Steps

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Be sure to submit the necessary Preliminary Assignments on the designated due dates (see above).

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The Unit #5 folder includes some notes you have already seen, but there are new documents in this folder

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that will help you with your project: o Notes on required Front and Back Matter

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Notes to help you complete your Audience Profile Notes to help you with the outline and organization of your Formal Report

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A Format and Design checklist

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There are also chapters and notes from earlier units that you may want to review for this project: o Chapter 5 on Format and Design (found in the Unit #2 folder) Chapter 6 on Visuals (found in the Unit 3 folder)

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Look at the sample formal reports in the Unit S folder.

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Make sure you are comfortable with citing your sources (using MLA or APA). Remember that citations must include page numbers and/or paragraph numbers. If you have questions about how to cite a source, let me know

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If you have not yet determined what images you will use in your report, this is a good time to give that some thought.

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Preliminary Assignments

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The following preliminary assignments are due on the dates listed below. The goal of these assignments is to encourage you to keep working on the Formal Report project throughout April. Each assignment will be graded out of a number of points (also listed below); the final total of these three scores will count as one full grade for the course (10% of your final grade). These are relatively easy assignments so this is a good opportunity for you to earn a strong grade!

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Submission links for each assignment are in the Unit #5 folder.

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Audience Profile:

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Due by noon on Wednesday April 21, 2021.

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Graded out of 35 points.

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The page “How to Complete Your Audience Profile for the Formal Report”, which appears in the Unit #5 folder, will help you to complete this assignment.

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List of Sources/Annotated Bibliography:

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Due by noon on Wednesday April 28, 2021.

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Graded out of 35 points.

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List the sources you will use in your Formal Report. Provide proper MLA or APA citations and place them in alphabetical order. If you need help determining how to cite your sources, use a Handbook, Appendix B in the text, and/or the Library’s Citation Guides (found here: https://www.morrisville.edu/library/get

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help/citation-guides ).

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You should list at least 4 sources.

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After each source, write a few sentences explaining what information you will use from that source in your

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report.

Sole Proprietorship unlimited Liability fictitious name doing busines as d/b/a

Personal liability general partnership contribution partnership agreement

Service in kind equity fiduciary duty duty of good faith duty of obedience

Duty of care transferability of interest limited partnership capital contribution

Winding-up or winding down process dissolution bankruptcy perpetual existence

Board of directors officers president vice president treasurer secretary

Principal agent ordinary transactions extraordinary transactions

Incorporation articles of incorporation debt financing equity financing

Par value common stock preferred stock closely held corporation

publicly traded corporation foreign corporation professional corporation

nonprofit corporation hostile take-over right of first refusal

franchise piercing the corporate veil business judgement rule

limited liability company certificate or organization

active member passive member

agency principal agent fiduciary relationship

independent contractor third party expressed authority implied authority

apparent authority power of attorney estopple agency by ratification

respondent superior frolic and detour use of discretion and control

Duty of performance duty of notification duty of loyalty duty of obedience

duty of accountability self-dealing snaping up the opportunity snapping up the clients

duty of cooperation duty to provide safe conditions duty of compensation indemnification

duty of reimbursement contractual liability tort liability criminal liability

disclosed principal partially disclosed principal undisclosed principal

joint and severally liability tort negligence termination of agency relationship

Corrupt Foreign Practices Act void voidable executed contract executory contract

Present consideration future consideration past consideration material breach

Partial performance substantial performance fraud sham consideration

Discharge of contract damages compensation damages lost profit damages recission

specific performance perfect tender rule

Offer and acceptance general offer limited offer consideration

Counteroffer mirror image rule strict acceptance open terms contract

Future agreements statute of frauds promissory estopple mutual mistake.580MT2

Promisor promisee promise

Project Management MGT323

Assignment Question:                                                             ( Marks 5)

Please read the Case-8.3 “Tham Luang Cave Rescue.”  from Chapter 8 “Scheduling Resources and Costs” given in your textbook – Project Management: The Managerial Process 8^th edition by Larson and Gray page no: 304-307 also refer to specific concepts you have learned from the chapter to support your answers. Answer the questions given below taken from the case study as deliverables where you should consider the milestones and technical requirements. Answers to all 3 Questions should be within 500 Words limit.

1. How did the physical environment of the cave affect the rescue plan? (2 Marks)

2. How did the rescue team respond to the risks of the project? (2 Marks)

3. Some have called the rescue a miracle and that luck was the decisive factor. Do you agree? Explain. (1 Mark)

DETAILED ASSIGNMENT

20210406170938mgt323_2020_21_2_assignment_3

You will need Minitab for this project. I will also post the excel file that you will need for this project below. All the questions should have a good narrative and pictures from the Minitab.

I will send you an excel file. The data can be copied to Minitab as it is and then you cal solve it through Minitab.All the stepwise instructions are below. I can also send you the lectures if you need more help.

1. Incorporate seasonal dummies and trends into your model. Identify if you have seasonality, trend by checking their significance? Is that consistent with your previous findings?

2. Check all your explanatory variables check for multicollinearity again (scatter plots, VIF, correlations). If you have a sign switch, correct the situation by throwing one (and if necessary more) of the variables out of the model. Consider R-squared or adj R-squared when making the decision. Your model should ONLY have variables with a correct sign that have the highest combined adj-R-squared.

3. Using the scatter plots you generated, identify any nonlinear relationships between Y and X variables.

Try to correct nonlinearity through transformation (page 233-237). If it works, keep the transformed version of the variable. Otherwise, use the original variable, acknowledge the nonlinearity and move on to the next test. Use 2 different transformations (ex: Log X, 1/X, X^2 or SQRT(X)).

4. Once you correct for nonlinearity and multicollinearity, check for autocorrelation using the DW test. Do you have autocorrelation? Correct for autocorrelation if you have any. (HINT: You may have to check for sign switch again)

5. Once you corrected for all possible problems, analyze the resulting residuals (4-in-11 plot in MINITAB)

6. Once you have your final model, use the forecasted X values (in PP2) and forecast your Y variable for 10 periods. Beware: if you transformed any variables, you may have to adjust your forecasts.

Define each assertion below and provide an example.

• • Fact

  • Opinion

  • Bias/Prejudice

  • Preference

  • Belief

  • Assumption

Cyber Security and Risk Management

Read at least two (2) academically reviewed articles on Cyber Security and Risk Management and complete the following activities:

(Wikipedia articles will not be accepted. Professor may check originality of all posts. Avoid copy-and-paste.

1. Summarize the two (2) articles in 500 words or more. Please use your own words. No copy-and-paste

2. Base on your article review and the assigned reading, discuss the relationship between cyber security and risk management.

3. As an IT manager, discuss how you will use the concepts discussed in the four articles in the management of IT risks within your company.

4. Dashboards are used in thousands of businesses every day. Review this dashboard and discuss how the government, hospitals and others could benefit by something like this: https://ncov2019.live/map . Be sure to go to the top of the page and look at both data and map.Discuss how risk management comes into play here.

Please use APA throughout.

Requirements: APA

Task2:words:300

Develop a 300 word posting that responds to the following question: How might value process frameworks help companies avoid faulty e-commerce strategies? Another way to pose this question would be: What strategic insights might be gained from such models that may not be self-evident to business strategists within a given company? Provide an example in your posting.

The class is divided into teams (see table for team assignment and due dates). This is not a group project, the class is divided into teams for scheduling purposes only. Each person will do an individual current event. ONLY the team members assigned to the current event project for that week will do the current event assignment that week. This will complete your current event project requirement for the course.

Each member of a particular team will find a current event article related to ethics in information technology, create a mind map, and write a summary of the article that includes discussion questions for the class and a link to the original current event. The team member will submit the mind map and current event summary including questions and a hyperlink to their article here in Canvas.

When you are ready to submit your assignment, click on the title, “Current Event Assignment”; use the browse button to attach your summary and then again to attach your mind map. Remember to hit submit. You will also need to post your summary and mind map to your team’s Current Event Discussion Board (next item below) for the class to read next week. Starting in week 2 and every week after there will be several current event summaries for the class to read and discuss.

A good current event will consist of the following:
– Post the link
– Provide a brief summary about what the article is about and how it is relevant to the topic matter we are studying.
– Provide a summary of what you learned from the article / what made it newsworthy / why you found it interesting.

– Provide a Mindmap for the article. Here is an excellent Mindmap example

1.Application of Value Curve Tool–750

Using PowerPoint or Excel graphic tools, develop a value curve for an industry context where there are both bricks and mortar and e-commerce players competing against each other. Specify the “dimensions of benefit” in the graph. Once you have developed your graphic model, briefly support why you placed data points of performance in each of the dimensions of benefit. In other words, what is the basis for the structure of your value curve in terms of each of the dimensions of benefit? Thus this assignment will contain two elements: (1) your value curve and, (2) a roughly 750 word essay supporting your decisions in constructing the value curve.

2.Value Innovation Brainstorm –

Write a 1250 – 1500 word essay addressing each of the following points/questions. Be sure to completely answer all the questions for each bullet point. There should be five sections, one for each bullet below. Separate each section in your paper with a clear heading that allows your professor to know which bullet you are addressing in that section of your paper. Support your ideas with at least three (3) citations in your essay. Make sure to reference the citations using the APA writing style for the essay. The cover page and reference page do not count towards the minimum word amount. Review the rubric criteria for this assignment.

• Using a company of your choice, provide a set of recommendations to the CEO of this company to help it compete against existing competitors. Focus your recommendations on the six starting points for value creation. Be creative in this exercise and try to provide specific examples where additional value innovations could be generated using each of the six starting points shown in the framework.

  For example, if you were using online education as your context, you might think about ways in which an academic institution might partner with corporation training units. This would promote creative thinking from “looking across substitute industries“, i.e corporate training is a product substitute for university-based training. You might also apply the “looking across the chain of buyers” and decide that an innovative value creating initiative might involve developing a voluntary relationship with the student’s employer and asking them what services might be applied to help this employee’s career progress and perhaps ask the employer to financially support such services. Try to use all six of the value creating starting points. Again, this is an exercise where there are not necessarily “right answers”, but rather, the activity emphasizes your own creative thinking so crucial to the value creation process.

Critical Thinking: Strategic Recommendations (115 points)

Managing the multi-business corporation to meet high performance expectations is problematic. Publicly traded companies are pressured to return favorable quarterly results and as corporations grow larger and more complex, it becomes harder to manage such corporations effectively. General Electric (GE) was once one of the most admired corporations in the world. Today, GE is facing a much-reduced outlook. For this week’s assignment, read the case study found in your textbook (Case 20): Restructuring General Electric.

Remember, a case study is a puzzle to be solved, so before reading and answering the specific case and study questions, develop your proposed solution by following these five steps:

1. Read the case study to identify the key issues and underlying issues. These issues are the principles and concepts of the course area which apply to the situation described in the case study.

2. Record the facts from the case study which are relevant to the principles and concepts of the course area issues. The case may have extraneous information not relevant to the current course area. Your ability to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information is an important aspect of case analysis, as it will inform the focus of your answers.

3. Describe in some detail the actions that would address or correct the situation.

4. Consider how you would support your solution with examples from experience or current real-life examples or cases from textbooks.

5. Complete this initial analysis and then read the discussion questions. Typically, you will already have the answers to the questions but with a broader consideration. At this point, you can add the details and/or analytical tools required to solve the case.

Case Study Questions:

1. Why was GE considered to be such an exemplary organization? (Discuss GE’s management systems and performance.)

2. Discuss the nature of GE’s corporate portfolio under Welch and Imelt. Did the nature of GE’s portfolio under Welch and Imelt provide superior results?

3. If GE’s portfolio mix gave superior results, why was it necessary to restructure the portfolio?

4. Why is GE’s performance no longer superior? What are the reasons for the collapse in GE’s financial performance during 2016-2018?

5. What should be done to return GE to higher levels of performance? Does GE need to refocus? Which businesses or products would you recommend abandoning or divesting, if any? Does GE need to make additional acquisitions to supplement existing GE assets?

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be 9 to 10 pages in length, which does not include the title page or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.

• Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.

• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles, and theories from the textbook and at least three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles unless the assignment calls for more.

• It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into the Turnitin Originality Check before submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool, review the Turnitin Originality Check—Student Guide for step-by-step instructions.

• Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment. Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.