Directions At the bottom of this page are the questions I would like you to address in the case study analysis. This will not be an overly long paper. The ability to concisely express your opnion and...

Directions

At the bottom of this page are the questions I would like you to address in the case study analysis. This will not be an overly long paper. The ability to concisely express your opnion and concepts is important in the workworld and graduate school.

Your analysis should be 1200-1600 words following APA format (go toOWL PURDUE)including coverage, header, headings, pagination, intext citations, and reference page) The coverpage, reference page, and intext citations do NOT count towards the required word count.

Best Practices

Please usetwoadditional authoritative references to support your analysis. Reference material must be found through SFC Library Portal:http://library.sfc.edu/homeLinks to an external site.

The following comments are best practices suggestions which Ihope you find helpful.

1. APA Margins and Fonts: Side/Bottom/Top margins must be 1” and font size 12pt. Times New Roman is recommended butArialis also acceptable. Please double check your margin settings.


2. Length of paper: A 1200-1600 word paper is an 1200-1600 word paper. Please do not submit a 1000 word paper or a 3000 word paper. Depending upon use/length of in-text citations, an APA paper is generally 275 words per page. Your writing needs to be clear, concise, and strategically edited. Your ideas must be fully developed with detailed supporting materials


3. Cover page: All papers should have a cover page and follow the correct format


4. Headers: All papers should include headers.


5. Pagination: All papers should include pagination and follow the correct format


6. Headings: You are not responsible for using the correct level of headings but at least one level of heading must be used to identify the sections of the paper.
   Yourpapers should not be one long run-on narrative. Use the questions or summaries of the questions as headings.
   


7. Sections of an APA paper that I do not want:
   a- Abstract: Not required and not included in grade tabulation. However, the correct length of an abstract is 150-250 words
   b-A literature review is not required


8. Citations: In-text citations are required. You cannot include statistical information or make specific claims regarding a particular group’s or individual’s behavior without supporting citations. As stated in the APA guideline “If you are referring to an idea from another work butNOTdirectly quoting the material, or making reference to an entire book, article or other work, you only have to make reference to the author and year of publication and not the page number in your in-text reference. All sources that are cited in the text must appear in the reference list at the end of the paper.”


9. Colloquial (informal) style of writing: Colloquial writing style should not be used in a college or professional paper. For example, replace “Due to the fact of" with“the facts support” or “supported by” or “regarding” or “pertains to”. Pronouns should not be used. For example replace “They” with “The organization” or “The cohort” or “The group”.


10. Abbreviations and Acronyms should not be used without previous explanation. As stated in the APA guideline “When abbreviating a term, use the full term the first time you use it, followed immediately by the abbreviation in parentheses.”


11. Do not assume the reader is familiar with subject matter pertaining to niche topics or cultural references. Consider using footnotes to explain the subject matter.


12. Syntax, Grammar, Spelling, and Punctuation: Please proof read your papers. Do not rely solely on spell check. An improperly used but correctly spelled word will not be caught by spell check. Also, please ensure you are using words within correct context.


13. Do use industry appropriate terminology - Do use concepts and theories discussed within the course textbook


14. Formatting of references. You do not need to do this manually. In fact, I would strongly recommend you use the “manage sources” feature within MS-Word (found under the references tab) or use a research tool such asZotero.