Discovery Paper

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Please use CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS for maximum point credit.  Support your personal thoughts / ideas with factual data.  (Examples:  text theory, case  facts, your experience – business or personal.)  Factual support gives credibility to your writing. Questions?  Contact instructor .

GRADING CRITERIA FOR DISCOVERY PAPERS
Overview:
Your discovery paper is due the 5 th week but may be submitted earlier.  Each student paper will have an individual focus as it will be based on (2) student-selected, Systems Analysis and Design text topics.  These (2) topics will be identified as highly significant to the student, either professionally or personally.  The discovery process purpose is to increase each student’s level of awareness regarding the impact that quality has in his/her life.

Criteria – Content:
Create discovery paper content from only the following sources – the textbook, your own thoughts, external references, and your experiences (business / personal).
Identify two (2) text topics that either currently make or some time this year will make a significant impact in either your professional or personal life.  You can choose topics with only professional significance, only personal significance, or with a combination of both professional and personal significance.
Refer to the attached Grading Rubric (see below) for additional content grading criteria.

Criteria – Formatting (APA):
To maximize earning full points for this assignment, your paper must have:
Content Length:  minimum of 2 full  pages (not 1-1/2  pages) – maximum of 3 (not 3-1/4)  pages.
An introductory paragraph & a concluding paragraph. each stating your main points.
Two-thirds of this assignment be your own thoughts; one-third be text topic reference.
Paraphrasing instead of copying the text word for word in your writing.  (Keep direct quotes to a minimum.)
Double spacing throughout  (i.e., only one blank line between any two lines of text)
Size 12 font
(4) 1″ margins  ( you may need to reset your margins)
Cover page with identifying data  (name, course name/number, date, assignment title).  Does not count towards the 2-page requirement.
Two external references.  Not counting the textbook.
In-text citations.  Ensure to cite with author(s), year, and page number for direct quotes and author(s) and year for paraphrasing.  Avoid plagiarism:  If you quote the text word-for-word, put quotation marks around the directly quoted phrase.
A reference page is required.
Note requirements in grading rubric attached

Psychological Data

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For this project you will submit an analysis report summary, which is an APA Style write-up and using the data. Your first step is to perform the inferential test you selected using the appropriate data set from the provided file. Then you will complete the APA write-up for that inferential test.

Scenario: You work for a market research company that supplies information for political non-profit organizations throughout the nation. A number of your clients are interested in the public perception around policies about sexual orientation and political opinions and ideologies.

*Your research question: Are there differences in the average agreement with homosexual individuals having the right to marry one another among people who were interviewed in different geographic regions of the United States?

Use the research question you chosen and the appropriate data set provided to support your analysis. Then, summarize your analysis in a brief report. The following criteria listed below must be addressed:

*Select and report the inferential statistical test contextualized in the research question.

*Provide the alpha value and use it to determine the significance of your test.

*Report the results in APA format, including statistic value with degree of freedom, p value, and effect size.

*Report the values necessary to interpret the findings and identify the pattern of relationship (for example, slope for regression and means for ANOVA).

*Connect the statistical findings back to the research question and conceptual variables.
Propose an actionable item that uses the results of your findings relevant to the research question.

*Provide the output from your data analysis (using the Analysis ToolPak) as a picture.

Your Analysis Report Summary must be 100 to 250 words long and include the required image of your output.

Early Stone Tools

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Pick any TWO of the artifact types (choppers, flakes, and/or hammerstones) and tell us ONE thing you think hominins could do with each kind of tool that you think would have been difficult or impossible for them to do before. Why do you think this made a difference in helping hominins adapt?

Gangs and violence

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Answer the question below. Use one citation. This doesn’t have to be more than one paragraph. If you can complete this by 3pm pacific time it would be great.

If you were a state or federal program manager in charge of designing an anti-gang program, describe the key components you would require.