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You are about to take over MoneyPlays Bank, a small but lucrative financial institution. You have hired new staff and are conducting orientation and training. You need to explain financial management risk to the new staff. Using the library and other credible sources, prepare a report responding to the following regarding factors of financial risk:

• Explain risk management to your new staff.
• Distinguish between the 3 factors of financial risk as it pertains to the banking industry. Explain each of the following:
  • Credit
  • Commodity
  • Operational risk

Main ideas and thesis sentences are really two sides of the same coin. Writers create thesis sentences. Readers pick out the main idea from what they read, which is usually the thesis sentence of the writer.

• Locate one additional article related to one of this week’s case study topics, other than the one you used in your Discussion
• Determine the main idea of the article
• Complete the Source Quality Rating Document found in the Week 1 resources.
• Craft a thesis sentence and topic outline that could be written in response to the article
• Be sure to provide attribution, using APA formatting, for any sources used
• Create one document that includes:
  • The outline you created
  • Your completed Source Quality Rating document
• This page contains the Learning Resources for this week. Be sure to scroll down the page to see all of this week’s assigned Learning Resources.

Familiarize yourself with the nine steps that Mills (2014) presents in Chapter 3, pp. 69-70, in order to complete the first three steps of your Final Project, Action Research Plan.  Follow the directions below as they differ from the steps on page 69. As well, review Mills (2014) Informed Consent and Protection from Harm in Chapter 2, pp. 32-36, in order to discuss the need for completion of informed consent as it relates to your action research proposal.

At this point, you are presenting early ideas that are not concrete, as you have not conducted a review of literature yet.  Therefore, your responses should be in outline form only.  (You will make these three steps more concrete and formal in structure in Week Three). For now, you will briefly explain the problem or situation.

1. Current Work Setting (I work in a childcare center with 2 and 3 year olds)
   • Describe your current professional setting, if applicable, whether you are working in a school setting, other educational setting, or organization not related to education.
2. Potential Population Effected
   • • Keeping the focus relatively small, describe whether the potential population of interest includes a group of students and what their grade or age level includes. If you currently work with adults in a non-educational setting, include who in your workplace is impacted. If you are currently unemployed, include who may benefit from a potential change or intervention (i.e. your child, a related child, an adult in the family, etc.). Avoid the use of specific names, rather describe the group or individuals who would be influenced or involved in the action research project.
   • Based on what you learned by reading the selection in Mills, discuss the importance of and need to communicate and acquire informed consent. When contemplating where your study may occur and who it may involve, who (person’s professional role) do you anticipate will need to sign an informed consent form for your study? If no signatures are needed, clearly state why not.
3. Area of Focus
   • Identify your early idea of what the purpose of your study may be.
4. Explanation of Problem
   • Statement of problem or situation that led to this interest or why you want to pursue this topic, including trends in education or educational research.
5. Define Variables
   • Describe the population (age/grade, quantity of participants, students/or adults). Briefly explain why you have chosen them.
6. Research question(s)
   • What do you wonder?  Consider your area of focus statement.  What do you hope to answer

Familiarize yourself with the nine steps that Mills (2014) presents in Chapter 3, pp. 69-70, in order to complete the first three steps of your Final Project, Action Research Plan.  Follow the directions below as they differ from the steps on page 69. As well, review Mills (2014) Informed Consent and Protection from Harm in Chapter 2, pp. 32-36, in order to discuss the need for completion of informed consent as it relates to your action research proposal.

At this point, you are presenting early ideas that are not concrete, as you have not conducted a review of literature yet.  Therefore, your responses should be in outline form only.  (You will make these three steps more concrete and formal in structure in Week Three). For now, you will briefly explain the problem or situation.

1. Current Work Setting (I work in a childcare center with 2 and 3 year olds)
   • Describe your current professional setting, if applicable, whether you are working in a school setting, other educational setting, or organization not related to education.
2. Potential Population Effected
   • • Keeping the focus relatively small, describe whether the potential population of interest includes a group of students and what their grade or age level includes. If you currently work with adults in a non-educational setting, include who in your workplace is impacted. If you are currently unemployed, include who may benefit from a potential change or intervention (i.e. your child, a related child, an adult in the family, etc.). Avoid the use of specific names, rather describe the group or individuals who would be influenced or involved in the action research project.
   • Based on what you learned by reading the selection in Mills, discuss the importance of and need to communicate and acquire informed consent. When contemplating where your study may occur and who it may involve, who (person’s professional role) do you anticipate will need to sign an informed consent form for your study? If no signatures are needed, clearly state why not.
3. Area of Focus
   • Identify your early idea of what the purpose of your study may be.
4. Explanation of Problem
   • Statement of problem or situation that led to this interest or why you want to pursue this topic, including trends in education or educational research.
5. Define Variables
   • Describe the population (age/grade, quantity of participants, students/or adults). Briefly explain why you have chosen them.
6. Research question(s)
   • What do you wonder?  Consider your area of focus statement.  What do you hope to answer

The Closeness Communication Bias

 

Read the article Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication. Then, write a two-page paper (excluding title and reference pages) in which you do the following:

• Summarize the article.
• Describe a miscommunication you have had with someone close to you simply because you assumed that they understood you? What happened?
• Using course materials, explain how you can make sure that this kind of miscommunication does not happen in the future. Or when it does happen, what could you do to make your communication more clear?

Please use COM200: How to Summarize an Article to assist with the completion of this assignment. Be sure to reference the article and at least one of the other course readings from this week in your paper. This can be your textbook or one of the recommended articles. The paper must be formatted according to APA style. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page

 

Will send attachments needed. Assignment MUST be completed with diligence and proficiency! NO EXCEPTIONS! If there are any questions…even the smallest…please inquire in a timely manner so that i may respond in a timely manner. Thank you.

Conducting an ethnographic study is a fun way of gathering research about your social environment. You may have done an ethnography before without really being aware of it. In a small way, this assignment recreates what ethnographers do when they visit a new community to conduct research.

Complete the following:

Observation

• Choose a restaurant, library, mall, dining hall, coffee shop, or similar public location. Plan to spend a minimum of two hours at the location. You will visit this location twice, for a minimum of four hours total. Keep in mind that if you should find one of your peers in the establishment at the same time when you are there, do not interrupt him/her and do not do the assignment at the same time.
• Document what occurs at this chosen location:
  • Describe the establishment.
  • Analyze the interactions between people.

Next, write a paper documenting and analyzing your observations of the location.

Observation Notes

Your observation notes should specifically include the following:

• Name and location of the establishment
• Dates and times you were there
• Place where you stood/sat and when you did your research
• Description of the physical characteristics of the inside and outside of the establishment (e.g. brick or concrete structure, paint color, seating arrangements)
• Number and types of people visiting the establishment while you were there (age, sex, type of clothing, probable occupations, ethnicity, etc.)
• Document interactions such as:
  • specific nature of the interactions that take place in the establishment among customers, between customers and staff, and among staff
  • types of languages used in the establishment and by whom
  • any strange or unusual behavior

Analysis Summary

Include the following in your analysis:

• Comparison of similarities and differences of this establishment and other similar establishments you know about
• Nature of the treatment of customers in the establishment
• Relationships between customers and workers
• Any behavior that surprised you or was contrary to your expectations
• How it felt to do the research
• Most difficult aspects of the research
• What you found most interesting about the research

In your analysis, be sure to draw upon your observations to support your conclusions.

Appendix

In the appendix of your paper, include the following:

• A sketch of the layout of the establishment (You can draw in a computer program, like Paint that comes preloaded on most PCs and insert it into your Word file.)
• Transcription of your notes

Write a 4–6-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

By Week 3, Day 7, deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Grading Rubric

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Documented observations for a total of two hours, at two different times in a public establishment on all required details such as dates, times, interactions.	28
Drew conclusions based on observations.	40
Wrote an analysis summary on all required details such as relationships observed, your reactions, comparison to other establishments.	60
Created a sketch of the layout of the establishment as an appendix.	28
Writing Criteria Organization (12) Usage and Mechanics (12) APA Elements (16) Style (4)	44

 

Read the article Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication. Then, write a two-page paper (excluding title and reference pages) in which you do the following:

• Summarize the article.
• Describe a miscommunication you have had with someone close to you simply because you assumed that they understood you? What happened?
• Using course materials, explain how you can make sure that this kind of miscommunication does not happen in the future. Or when it does happen, what could you do to make your communication more clear?

Please use COM200: How to Summarize an Article to assist with the completion of this assignment. Be sure to reference the article and at least one of the other course readings from this week in your paper. This can be your textbook or one of the recommended articles. The paper must be formatted according to APA style. Cite your resources in text and on the reference page

 

Will send attachments needed. Assignment MUST be completed with diligence and proficiency! NO EXCEPTIONS! If there are any questions…even the smallest…please inquire in a timely manner so

how would a nurse practitioner and a nurse manager differ with regard to how they use and incorporate Evidence-based practice in their areas of work.

You are about to take over MoneyPlays Bank, a small but lucrative financial institution. You have hired new staff and are conducting orientation and training. You need to explain financial management risk to the new staff. Using the library and other credible sources, prepare a report responding to the following regarding factors of financial risk:

• Explain risk management to your new staff.
• Distinguish between the 3 factors of financial risk as it pertains to the banking industry. Explain each of the following:
  • Credit
  • Commodity
  • Operational risk
• Be sure to include an introduction and conclusion
• APA format

Conducting an ethnographic study is a fun way of gathering research about your social environment. You may have done an ethnography before without really being aware of it. In a small way, this assignment recreates what ethnographers do when they visit a new community to conduct research.

Complete the following:

Observation

• Choose a restaurant, library, mall, dining hall, coffee shop, or similar public location. Plan to spend a minimum of two hours at the location. You will visit this location twice, for a minimum of four hours total. Keep in mind that if you should find one of your peers in the establishment at the same time when you are there, do not interrupt him/her and do not do the assignment at the same time.
• Document what occurs at this chosen location:
  • Describe the establishment.
  • Analyze the interactions between people.

Next, write a paper documenting and analyzing your observations of the location.

Observation Notes

Your observation notes should specifically include the following:

• Name and location of the establishment
• Dates and times you were there
• Place where you stood/sat and when you did your research
• Description of the physical characteristics of the inside and outside of the establishment (e.g. brick or concrete structure, paint color, seating arrangements)
• Number and types of people visiting the establishment while you were there (age, sex, type of clothing, probable occupations, ethnicity, etc.)
• Document interactions such as:
  • specific nature of the interactions that take place in the establishment among customers, between customers and staff, and among staff
  • types of languages used in the establishment and by whom
  • any strange or unusual behavior

Analysis Summary

Include the following in your analysis:

• Comparison of similarities and differences of this establishment and other similar establishments you know about
• Nature of the treatment of customers in the establishment
• Relationships between customers and workers
• Any behavior that surprised you or was contrary to your expectations
• How it felt to do the research
• Most difficult aspects of the research
• What you found most interesting about the research

In your analysis, be sure to draw upon your observations to support your conclusions.

Appendix

In the appendix of your paper, include the following:

• A sketch of the layout of the establishment (You can draw in a computer program, like Paint that comes preloaded on most PCs and insert it into your Word file.)
• Transcription of your notes

Write a 4–6-page paper in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources. Use the following file naming convention: LastnameFirstInitial_M3_A2.doc.

By Week 3, Day 7, deliver your assignment to the M3: Assignment 2 Dropbox.

Grading Rubric

Assignment 2 Grading Criteria	Maximum Points
Documented observations for a total of two hours, at two different times in a public establishment on all required details such as dates, times, interactions.	28
Drew conclusions based on observations.	40
Wrote an analysis summary on all required details such as relationships observed, your reactions, comparison to other establishments.	60
Created a sketch of the layout of the establishment as an appendix.	28
Writing Criteria Organization (12) Usage and Mechanics (12) APA Elements (16) Style (4)	44