Developing Channels of Communication and Collaboration

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As the new communications manager for International Gadgets, you have assembled a team of technical communicators with experience in communicating with various audiences in a business setting. Research & Development (R&D) has created a new product that it believes will revolutionize the industry. But the department needs the buy-in of several levels of the corporation to launch the new product. First, upper management needs to understand the product and how it will help the company expand before it will approve the funding needed to mass-produce the product. Sales and Marketing need to understand the product so it can be properly marketed. Technical Support needs to thoroughly know the product in order to support it to the customer base. And all employees need to know as much about the product as possible so that they can build excitement about the proposed launch. The head of R&D has come to you for your help in building excitement and buy-in throughout the company for the new product.

Create a memo to your team that discusses the following:

1) The possible channels of communication that can be used to communicate information about the product to various levels of the company, and how they could be used

2) Your suggestions for which channels will be appropriate for which audiences and why

3) Plans for how your team will communicate and collaborate on this project for the purpose of choosing the best channels of communications for various audiences in the company.

Back up your plans with solid reasoning and research.

James M. McPherson’s “Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam, The Battle That Changed the Course of the Civil War

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Task: Write an essay length review of your book including arguments about key strengths and weaknesses of the book and the authors historical research.

Your essay should follow this format:
1,000-1,500 words long (roughly 4-6 double spaced pages
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Intro paragraph that includes
An overview of the books historical topic
An overview of the authors historical argument(s) AND the sources they used to write this book
A brief background of the author
Who they are and what their previous work includes (topics and titles)
Do they teach? Where?
An overview of the how the book was received by
Academic community: youll read reviews for this info
General public: popular reviews and book sales info (bestseller lists etc)
Finally: your arguments about what you feel the strengths and weaknesses of the book are
Body paragraphs should include
Detailed discussion of the authors historical argument and sources used
AND your thoughts on this aspect of their work
Detailed discussion of how this book compares to other books/articles/documentaries about the same historical era or events
Youll need to read professional reviews of this book to learn this info
Detailed discussion of how this book was received by the academic community of professional historians AND how it was received by the general public
Some books will have much more readership in 1 of these areas than another; rarely will a book of wide readership both with professionals and the public
Youll need to read reviews to learn much of this info
As mentioned above, you need to read at least THREE PROFESSIONAL REVIEWS about your book to help you write this paper
You must cite at least 3 reviews in your body paragraphs
These will be quoted as evidence along with the material you cite from your book
ACCESS these reviews using the following link: https://library.coloradomtn.edu/discipline/history
This link can also be found through the CMC libraries website
Throughout your body paragraphs you should include discussions of your opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of the book and the authors work
This is after all your review of the book
Conclusion paragraph
Here is where you should discuss why the history presented in your book is important to modern American society AND how this book fits in to our current cultural efforts to understand this particular chapter of American history

Respond to any Ted talk video 5 minutes or longer

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  Watch a TED Talk online and write a two (2) page paper about the video.  Define that as you will.  Ultimately, I am most concerned with your considering the material and ideas you are seeing.  Did you agree/disagree?  Did you think the person was taking a skewed viewpoint?  Do you have ideas for how the material could be implemented in the real world?

            All I ask is that you keep the thoughts academic in nature, by which I mean that I request that you refrain from trivial points on appearance, speech patterns, or the like.  I want you to think about the material and relay it into your perceptions of the world so please stick to these concepts instead.

Step 1 – Select a Database For this project, you must find some sort of publish

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Step 1 – Select a Database
For this project, you must find some sort of published, existing data.
Possible sources include: almanacs, magazine and journal articles, textbooks, web resources, athletic teams, newspapers, reference materials, campus organizations, professors with experimental data, electronic data repositories, the sports pages
.The dataset you select must have at least 25 cases. It also must have at least two categorical variables and at least two quantitative variables. It is very helpful to have a dataset that interests you.
Step 2 – Analyze your Data!See the description below of what analysis should be included. Use technology as needed to automate calculations and graphs.
Step 3 – Write Your ReportInclude all of the following in your report:
Introduction (7 points): Give a reference for your data and describe all relevant variables. Include the source of the dataset.
Analysis of One Quantitative Variable (10 points): For at least one of the quantitative variables, include summary statistics (mean, standard deviation, five number summary) and at least one graphical display. Are there any outliers? Is the distribution symmetric, skewed, or some other shape?
Analysis of One Categorical Variable (8 points): For at least one of the categorical variables, include a frequency table and a relative frequency table.
Analysis of One Relationship between Two Categorical Variables (25 points): Include a two-way table and discuss any relevant proportions. Does there appear to be an association between the two variables? If so, describe it and test it by stating the appropriate null and alternative hypothesis and calculating the test statistic (Hint: use proportions for the categories of interest as the parameters). Use StatKey to calculate the p-value. State your generic conclusion and conclusion in the context of your data.
Analysis of One Relationship between a Categorical Variable and a Quantitative Variable (15 points): Include a side-by-side plot and describe it. Does there appear to be an association between the two variables? If so, describe it. Also, use some summary statistics to compare the groups. Use StatKey to construct a bootstrap distribution for the difference in means using 2 categories of the categorical variable in your data. Use the bootstrap distribution to construct confidence interval (choose your own confidence level) and be sure to interpret your result in the context of your data situation.
Analysis of One Relationship between Two Quantitative Variables (15 points): For at least one pair of quantitative variables, include a scatterplot and discuss it. Give the correlation and comment on the strength of linear association. Pick one of the variables to be a response variable, use the other as an explanatory variable, and fit a regression line. Interpret the slope of the regression line. Use the regression line to make at least one prediction for a point in the dataset and compute the residual.
Conclusion (10 points): Briefly summarize the most interesting features of your data. As you discuss each analysis, be sure to interpret what you are finding in the context of your particular data situation.

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For this project, you must find some sort of publish appeared first on homework handlers.