WRTG 391 WEEK 4 DISCUSSIONS LATEST-UMUC
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WRTG 391 Week 4 Discussions Latest-UMUC
DQ 1
Analyzing the Results of Two Research Studies
This discussion task is designed to help you analyze some
research studies on the topic on which you will be writing WA #3.
To complete this task, you will read over the following two
articles:
Dante E. Mancini, “The “CSI Effect’ in an Actual Juror Sample:
Why Crime Show Genre May Matter.”
Janne A. Holmgren and Judith Fordham, “The CSI Effect and the
Canadian and the Australian Jury.”
To access the articles, please take the following steps:
click Content
select Class Resources
select eReserves
select the icon for eReserves in the middle of your page.
in the list of items that appears, locate the articles and
download them.
After you find these two articles, please read them over and complete
the following for each one:
List the source in APA format
List key terms in the article
Describe the focus of the study
Describe the methodology the author(s) used
Summarize the study’s findings
Write your reflections on the article itself. Comment on whether
you found the study difficult to interpret, whether you understood the
methodology, or other items that might be of interest to your fellow
classmates.
This task will help you become more familiar with finding
research studies on your topic, reading them over, gleaning the main points of
them, and summarizing their findings. These skills will be helpful as you
continue to research for WA#3.
DQ 2
Preparing for the Literature Review
Your third writing assignment in WRTG 391 will be a synthesis of
sources essay, often called a literature review.
Please watch video on WA #3 — approaching the synthesis of
sources essay. Then complete the following task.
Imagine that you are working for department within a large
company. The manager of your department is considering allowing workers in your
department to telework, in other words, to work from home.
However, your manager is not sure what to expect from this
possible change.
She is not sure what the advantages, pitfalls, unexpected
issues, etc. are of allowing teleworking. For example, she is not sure whether
workers become less productive because they will be working from home and not
supervised. She also considers the possibility that workers will become more
productive because they won’t have to worry about traffic and parking. They
won’t have to take large amounts of time off to get children to a doctor’s
appointment, to see a doctor themselves, to take care of errands, etc. It is
possible that working from home will improve productivity.
Other questions abound in her mind. For example, how many days a
week should the workers be allowed to telework? Should they be limited to one
day? Two days? Or should they be unlimited to telework as many days as they
would like per week?
In addition, she is not sure if everyone should be allowed to
telework or if perhaps only people in certain positions should be allowed to
telework. For example, she knows that the janitor cannot telework. His job
could not be done at a distance. But some individuals could telework, as their
jobs involve meetings and other functions that could be accomplished at a
distance.
Your manager has asked you to review the literature on
teleworking. She has asked that you submit a literature review to her next
month on the topic of teleworking.
From what you have gleaned in this class about what a literature
review is, what is your manager asking you to do?
Does she want a proposal that supports a new teleworking
arrangement?
Does she want a persuasive paper that takes a stand against
teleworking?
Or does she want something entirely different from those two
options?
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