CM107M2-1: Use language appropriate to audience

CM107M2-1: Use language appropriate to audience

CM107M2-1: Use language appropriate to audience

SCENARIO:

Imagine that you have graduated with your degree.   They has recognized you for  your writing skills and would like for you to share your problem solving skills by writing an informal blog post that will help first year students in your field of study to address a problem they might face. The blog post will be published on the University website and will be read by many students.

DIRECTIONS:

Select a personal problem that college students in your field of study might be facing and that you have personal experience with. Write to this audience and identify for them a way they can address this issue, based on your own success with addressing the issue. Demonstrate to them how this one strategy will benefit them. If you are studying psychology, for example, you might write to help fellow students to deal with their stress or perhaps their bouts with depression or anxiety. If you are studying law enforcement, you might help your audience to see how they might deal with the problem of identity theft. If you are studying to be a teacher, you might help fellow students to deal with their challenges with time management.

You may use only one outside source to help support your ideas, but the focus is on establishing your point about the issue, to share your knowledge and experience, and to use appropriately informal language, rather than writing a formal research paper. If you do use a source, you must still cite it using APA citation format.

Your blog post should be between 4–5 paragraphs long, or around 600–700 words.

Minimum Submission Requirements

Proper notification of any resubmission, repurposing, or reworking of prior work.4–5 paragraphs (600–700 words)APA formatting

If the work submitted for this competency assessment does not meet the minimum submission requirements, it will be returned for revision.

If the work submitted does not meet the minimum submission requirements by the end of the term, you will receive a failing score.

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is an act of academic dishonesty. It violates the University’s Code of Student Conduct, and the offense is subject to disciplinary action. You are expected to be the sole author of your work. Use of another person\’s work or ideas must be accompanied by specific citations and references. Whether the action is intentional or not, it still constitutes plagiarism.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.