BMGT 487 - Individual Assignment #1 Project Charter (Week 3) NOTE:All submitted work is to be your original work. You may not use any work from another student, the Internet or an online...

BMGT 487 - Individual Assignment #1 Project Charter (Week 3)

NOTE:All submitted work is to be your original work. You may not use any work from another student, the Internet or an online clearinghouse. You are expected to understand the Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism Policy, and know that it is your responsibility to learn about instructor and general academic expectations with regard to proper citation of sources as specified in the APA Publication Manual, 7th Ed. (Students are held accountable for in-text citations and an associated reference list only).

Individual Deliverable 1 is due Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. eastern time of week 3 unless otherwise changed by the instructor.

Purpose:

To introduce students to the elements of the project charter, which authorizes a project to start or continue and provides authorization for the Project Manager to do his or her job. The group project may be used for the project charter.

Outcomes Met With This Assignment:

• plan a project that meets organizational goals and that has a high probability of success
  
  

Instructions:

This assignment is the first of five individual assignments. You are expected to complete the assignment individually without any assistance. You will create a project charter.

Step 1:Preparation for Writing the Assignment

Before you begin writing the paper, read the following requirements that will help you meet the writing and APA requirements. Not reading this information will lead to a lower grade:

• Read the grading rubric for the assignment. Use the grading rubric while writing the paper to ensure all requirements are met.

• Third person writing is required.Third person means that there are no words such as “I”, “me”, “my”, “we”, or “us” (first person writing), nor is there use of “you” or “your” (second person writing).If uncertain how to write in the third person, view this link:http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/first-second-and-third-person.

• Contractions are not used in business writing, so you are expected NOT to use contractions in writing this assignment.

• For all source material used in the analysis, you will paraphrase and not use direct quotation marks but will instead paraphrase. What this means is that you will put the ideas of an author or article into your own words rather than lifting directly from a source document.You may not use more than four consecutive words from a source document, as doing so would require direct quotation marks. This requirement include facts from the case scenario. Changing words from a passage does not exclude the passage from having quotation marks.

• You areresponsible for APA only for in-text citations and a reference list. At a minimum, this deliverable should include in-text citations and references for information relating to the organization’s purpose, goals, strategy, and/or objectives.

• You are expected to use the weekly courses readings to develop the analysis and support the reasoning. The expectation is that you provide a robust use of the course readings. Any material used from a source document (including both course readings and outside materials) must be cited and referenced. A reference within a reference list cannot exist without an associated in-text citation and vice versa. View the APA under Content on the main navigation bar.

• You may not use books in completing this project.

• Provide the page or paragraph number in every in-text citation presented. If using an eBook from the classroom, you may see that there are no page numbers so you will provide the Chapter Name and Section Title.

Step 2:Set Up and Complete the Project Charter

Using the Project Charter template provided in the Content area of Week 3, complete each section.

Step 3:Review the Project Charter

Read the Project Charter to ensure all required elements are present. Use the grading rubric to ensure you have addressed all required aspects of the assignment.

Proofread the paper for spelling and grammatical issues, and third person writing.

• Read the paper aloud as a first measure;


• Use the spell and grammar check in Word as a secondmeasure;


• Have someone who has excellent English skills to proof the paper;


• Consider submitting the paper to the Effective Writing Center (EWC).The EWC will provide 4-6 areas that may need improvement.
  
  

Step 4:Submit the paper in the Assignment Folder.

Self-Plagiarism:Self-plagiarism is the act of reusing significant, identical or nearly identical portions of one's own work. You cannot re-use any portion of a paper or other graded work that was submitted to another class except through specific written permission from your instructor. See the Academic Integrity Policies section in the syllabus for more information.