Assignment 2: Needs Assessment Due Week 5 and worth 175 points You and your assigned classmate(s) have formed a human resource consulting company. You have been hired to provide training to the sales force for an automobile dealership. As part of your preparation for this consulting engagement, you and your team members must determine how best to approach the automobile dealership to engage the interest of the decision makers. Your part of this assignment is to propose the types of needs assessment tools that could be used to determine how to design and develop the automobile dealerships training programs. These could include software, models, or analysis methods. Once you complete your need assessment, you must now meet with the owner of the dealership to discuss the needs assessment. Do Not Create a Training Program!!! From the perspective of a team member, write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which you: 1. Prepare, in outline form, the process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the articles you selected. (You will use a hierarchical topic and sentence outline for this paper only.) Review chapter 4 on needs assessments. It discusses different types of assessments. Select the best one(s) to use to gather information. Keep in mind that you are trying to find out the organizations needs related to their sale force. Hence, you need to outline the method you are going to use to gather information and make a recommendation to management on what type of training may be required. Use this information in conjunction with your research from the week 3 discussion. 2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and discuss how you will overcome them. The text also discusses obstacles to conducting needs assessments such as time, cost, leadership buy-in, employee willingness to participate. The most common are time to conduct a thorough assessment and cost. You should mention the others briefly as supporting information. 3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is commonly done in the field. Feasibility is the likelihood your process would happen in this industry. Is your process a standard practice? 4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the development of the training program you plan to deliver. Your goal here is to answer what can happen if you develop training without understanding the training needs and why it is important to determine the issues correctly to avoid wasting time and money, in addition to not solving the problem. Remember you are training the sales force but the training may not be sales related it could be a process, time management, or low morale. This is what your consulting company has been hired to find out. 5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this assignment.  Two resources in addition to your textbook for maximum points. Review the week 3 discussion thread where you can find other types of needs assessment processes. If ...

1. Assignment 2: Needs Assessment
Due Week 5 and worth 175 points
You and your assigned classmate(s) have formed a human
resource consulting company. You have been hired to provide
training to the sales force for an automobile dealership. As part
of your preparation for this consulting engagement, you and
your team members must determine how best to approach the
automobile dealership to engage the interest of the decision
makers. Your part of this assignment is to propose the types of
needs assessment tools that could be used to determine how to
design and develop the automobile dealerships training
programs. These could include software, models, or analysis
methods. Once you complete your need assessment, you must
now meet with the owner of the dealership to discuss the needs
assessment. Do Not Create a Training Program!!!
From the perspective of a team member, write a three to four (3-
4) page paper in which you:
1. Prepare, in outline form, the process your team could use to
conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the
articles you selected. (You will use a hierarchical topic and
sentence outline for this paper only.)
Review chapter 4 on needs assessments. It discusses different
types of assessments. Select the best one(s) to use to gather
information. Keep in mind that you are trying to find out the
organizations needs related to their sale force. Hence, you need
to outline the method you are going to use to gather information
and make a recommendation to management on what type of
training may be required. Use this information in conjunction
with your research from the week 3 discussion.
2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and
discuss how you will overcome them.
The text also discusses obstacles to conducting needs

2. assessments such as time, cost, leadership buy-in, employee
willingness to participate. The most common are time to
conduct a thorough assessment and cost. You should mention
the others briefly as supporting information.
3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is
commonly done in the field.
Feasibility is the likelihood your process would happen in this
industry. Is your process a standard practice?
4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the
development of the training program you plan to deliver.
Your goal here is to answer what can happen if you develop
training without understanding the training needs and why it is
important to determine the issues correctly to avoid wasting
time and money, in addition to not solving the problem.
Remember you are training the sales force but the training may
not be sales related it could be a process, time management, or
low morale. This is what your consulting company has been
hired to find out.
5. Use at least two (2) quality academic resources in this
assignment.
Two resources in addition to your textbook for maximum points.
Review the week 3 discussion thread where you can find other
types of needs assessment processes. If you use one of those
models make sure you identify the model. You can use the
reference you cited in your post for this paper. Refer to pages
113 -130 to design your outline.
Points: 125
Assignment 2: Needs Assessment
Criteria
Unacceptable
Below 70% F
Fair
70-79% C
Proficient
80-89% B

3. Exemplary
90-100% A
1. Prepare in outline form, the process your team could use to
conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon the
articles you selected.
Weight: 20%
Did not submit or incompletely prepared in outline form, the
process your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for
your client based upon the articles you selected.
Partially submitted in outline form, the process your team could
use to conduct the needs assessment for your client based upon
the articles you selected.
Satisfactorily submitted prepared in outline form, the process
your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your
client based upon the articles you selected.
Thoroughly submitted prepared in outline form, the process
your team could use to conduct the needs assessment for your
client based upon the articles you selected.
2. Identify two (2) possible impediments to this approach and
discuss how you will overcome them.
Weight: 25%
Did not submit or incompletely identified two (2) possible
impediments to this approach and did not submit or
incompletely discussed how you will overcome them.
Partially identified two (2) possible impediments to this
approach and partially discussed how you will overcome them.
Satisfactorily identified two (2) possible impediments to this
approach and satisfactorily discussed how you will overcome
them.
Thoroughly identified two (2) possible impediments to this
approach and thoroughly discussed how you will overcome
them.
3. 3. Evaluate the feasibility of your approach to what is
commonly done in the field.
Weight: 20%

4. Did not submit or incompletely evaluated the feasibility of your
approach to what is commonly done in the field.
Partially evaluated the feasibility of your approach to what is
commonly done in the field.
Satisfactorily evaluated the feasibility of your approach to what
is commonly done in the field.
Thoroughly evaluated the feasibility of your approach to what is
commonly done in the field.
4. 4. Explain why your needs assessment is critical to the
development of the training program you plan to deliver.
5. Weight: 20%
6. Did not submit or incompletely explained why your needs
assessment is critical to the development of the training
program you plan to deliver.
Partially explained why your needs assessment is critical to the
development of the training program you plan to deliver.
Satisfactorily explained why your needs assessment is critical to
the development of the training program you plan to deliver.
Thoroughly explained why your needs assessment is critical to
the development of the training program you plan to deliver.
5. 2 references
Weight: 5%
No references provided
Does not meet the required number of references; some or all
references poor quality choices.
Meets number of required references; all references high quality
choices.
Exceeds number of required references; all references high
quality choices.
6. Clarity, writing mechanics, and formatting requirements
Weight: 10%
More than 6 errors present
5-6 errors present
3-4 errors present
0-2 errors present

5. 1
How technology makes college students happy
Happiness is essential since it constitutes a final goal of
human beings. Happiness is a thing that one aspires and its
search motivates the human actions. Happiness is something
experienced by people. The scientific study of happiness is
based on the conception of happiness as a human experience and
on the measurement of happiness.
Technology has been a major component in our daily
lives and mostly the young generation in particular the college
students. In college, mobile phones, tablets are laptops shapes
the life of a student. Personally I see technology as a factor
which can make college student happy. Technology helps in
reshaping and upgrading the education systems and on top of
that, the technology devices are used in entertaining the
students. For instance mobile devices are used widely in all
education system stages for various purposes. Such devices
allow students to interact with their fellow students and friends.
Positive effects of technology on happiness among college
students. Technology has a positive effect at least during
particular periods of time by providing the college students with
a wide range of new accessories and improving their quality.
A bigger percentage of students is helped by technology in
increasing their happiness as compared to those who are
disappointed by it. Digital technology continues to enhance the
aspects of college life and increasing happiness. Although
technologies are created with a sincere desire to advance
understanding of cognition, mood, etc., or with the pretension
of facilitating the control of our response, the real
implementation of the devices and the techniques is quite
different.
Happiness is an experience which can never be excluded

6. when talking about basic necessities for healthy living. Among
other factors technology can be considered as a chief
contributor of happiness among college students.

10. 1
How Does Technology Makes College Students Happy?
Technology has been a major component in our daily lives and
mostly the young generation specifically, college students. In
college, mobile phones, tablets and laptops shape the students’
lives. Personally, I see technology as a factor which can makes
college students happy. Technology helps in reshaping and
upgrading the education systems. On top of that, the technology
devices are used in entertaining the students. For instance,
mobile devices are used widely in all education system stages
for various purposes. Such devices allow students to interact

11. with their fellow students and friends. Most important
influences on level of student’s level of satisfaction are social
relationships, resources and the educational environment,
personal goals achieving and extracurricular activities.
Advantages of technology to students when in school students
are taught using technology whereby the course instructor show
the real images e.g. by using a projector to display a video and
by this way, the student is able to understand the concept and
more so enjoy a lot which make it hard to forget that certain
topic. Another way how a student can enjoy life in college
through technology is through use of gadgets like laptops in
watching enjoyable movies .Also, others enjoying playing PC
games among other games and they prefer praying indoors
rather than going outside .Additionally technology, makes
college students happy because when given hard assignments,
they can research more, get better and accurate information
from the website. There are very many technology platforms
that college students use in sharing, posting viewing and
commenting about a certain picture for instance one can post a
photo of their own when maybe in an occasion like their own
birthday party. The platforms include Twitter, Facebook,
WhatsApp, and Instagram among others. Technology also has
several platforms for example, the advanced ways of storing
their ways of their notes for instance in memory cards or flash
discs which is less bulky compared to carrying notebooks all
over. Students enjoy more while chatting and connecting with
their friends back at home.
Technology also includes better and faster transport means like
airplanes and choppers which they can use in touring various
countries or even within their school either for education gain
or for enjoyment purposes. College students are given the
opportunities to research about something using various
technological platforms and so various projects which are
helpful in one way or the other. Without technology, students’
life in courage would be very boring. Majority of the college

12. students are always happy with every advancement of
technology because every platform and every advancement
tends to favor them in a major way either directly or indirectly.
The lives of college students are very important and they should
always be happy while associating with their opposite sex
gender while communicating even from a different nation since
this will assist them to find romance friends and start dating
even while in college who in future might end up being couples
and starting a family. Therefore, when thinking about
determinants of happiness in college students, technology comes
first.
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Introduction Topic
Monsters are considered to be frightening super natural
creatures, that have super natural powers and can cause harm to
human beings. There is an endless list of types of monsters with
examples of dragons, ogres, mermaids and unicorn as the most
common. On this study we will focus on the vampire as a
monster in visual art.
Change over time
Vampires have had significant change in the way they ae
portrayed. In early days, vampires were portrayed as creatures
with long nails, bad looks and whose survival means was
sucking blood. However, this has changed because they are

13. portrayed as immortal creatures with attractive looks in human
body. They also have a conscience and are in most cases torn
between sucking blood and behaving as normal human beings.
Controversy
Controversy in vampirism stems from whether vampires are real
or is just mere myths; for instance, in Britain, vampirism
became known in the 18th century, when there emerged a
vampire scare due to the mysterious deaths of people. However,
scholars came in hand to prove that vampires do not exist and
that the many cases of deaths were due to an illness.
Significance
This topic is important because it will give in-depth information
about vampires. In today’s world, the use of vampires in
movies, paintings and novels is unavoidable. We therefore need
to have an understanding of vampires to get the concepts of
these articles, movies and paintings. With this, perhaps we will
overcome the fear of vampires and appreciate their significance
in the contemporary world. This topic should be of interest to
everyone, because we will encounter tales, movies and paintings
everywhere. We therefore need to have knowledge on vampires
to be able to appreciate these works.
Concision
In this study, I will start by looking at the history of vampires
and how they came into existence. After this, I will focus on the
modern-day vampire and the proof of their existence. This will
be coupled up with the different ways in which vampires are
represented today through art.
Bibliography
Anatol, Giselle Liza. The Things That Fly In The Night. Rutgers
University Press, 2015.
The book explores the various images of vampirism in both
traditional folks and in contemporary fiction. This gives clear
characteristics that vampires exhibit.

14. Auerbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. The University Of
Chicago Press, 2006.
This book focuses on another perspective of vampires and how
each generation adapts its own form of vampire. It explains that
vampires really do exist, only in different forms which each
generation adapts.
Hess, Sebastian et al. "Shedding Light On Vampires: The
Phylogeny Of Vampyrellid Amoebae Revisited". Plos ONE, vol
7, no. 2, 2012, p. e31165. Public Library Of Science (Plos),
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031165.
This article focuses on the biological aspects of vampire, which
will be useful in this study. It gives scientific evidence of the
existence of vampires and their biological components.
Hoffman, Andrew J. Monsters. 1st ed., Bedford/St. Martin's,
2015.
This primary sources talks about the history of monsters and the
different types of monsters. It gives descriptions and history of
some of the most common types of monsters.
Larson, Mia et al. "Thirsting For Vampire Tourism: Developing
Pop Culture Destinations". Journal Of Destination Marketing &
Management, vol 2, no. 2, 2013, pp. 74-84. Elsevier BV,
doi:10.1016/j.jdmm.2013.03.004.
This journal article shows the impact of vampire movies and
books in attracting tourists. It shows the positive side of
vampirism especially in the film and media industry in
improving the economy by attracting tourists.
Palmer, Louis H. Vampires In The New World. Praeger, 2013.
This book talks about vampires in the New World, revealing
whether they exist. It is a proof to the existence of vampires in
our modern world.
Prokop, P., Fančovičová, J., & Kubiatko, M. (2009). Vampires
Are Still Alive: Slovakian Students' Attitudes toward
Bats. Anthrozoös, 22(1), 19-30. doi:
10.2752/175303708x390446
This journal is important because it focuses on how students’

15. attitude towards myths related to vampires. The article focuses
on bats, and the perceptions students have towards the in
relation to vampires.
Summers, Montague. Vampires And Vampirism. Courier
Corporation, 2012.
The book focuses on vampires from how they came into
existence, myths about vampires and how vampires behave. This
book gives better understanding to vampirism by exploring
different concepts about vampires.
"The Wildest Imaginary Creatures In Art". Widewalls, 2017,
https://www.widewalls.ch/imaginary-creatures-art/.
This article talks about the monsters and a brief history of their
origin. It also gives descriptions of how monsters are
represented in art.
"Vampires: The Ever-Changing Face Of Fear". Vol 2, no. 5,
2010, Accessed 3 Oct 2019.
This article talks about the different approaches and perceptions
that people have towards vampires. It explains the pear that
people still have regarding vampires.
Investigating Happiness at College
SNAPSHOT:
TOPIC Either a specific group related to college or a
factor within
college life that possibly affects a specified group of
college
students or students in general.
PITCH Present your topic and your research question
to the class—

16. shark tank! Sound too scary? How about guppy tank
?).
Tentative due date: 2/5 & 2/7
ESSAY 1 The prospectus and the annotated
bibliography.
Tentative due date: 2/21
ESSAY 2 Change in your topic or conducting your
own study
Tentative due date: 3/16
ESSAY 3 Argument about a specific controversy
within your topic
Tentative due date: 4/6
ESSAY 4 Answers and argues your refined research
question about the
importance of your topic.
Tentative due date: 4/24
♥ Rough drafts with reflections about what is working
and not working and
WHY will be required for the prospectus and essays
2 and 3. The work
on the rough draft and the reflections will count
toward your essay grade.
♥ Final reflections submitted the class period after you
submit your final
draft for essays 2-4 will also count as part of your

17. essay grade.
♥ You will upload your drafts on Moodle. You will
be asked to identify the
portions of the sources you used and submit hard
copies of your sources
in a folder or files of your sources online.
Investigating Happiness at College:
Some questions that will help you form your own
research
questions:
● Is happiness a necessity or a perk in college life?
● What do the expectations of happiness and the
pursuit of
happiness reveal about a specific college group,
college
students in general, or another college-related group?
● Considering both on-campus factors and off-campus
factors
(at least at first), what most influences your group’s
happiness (or unhappiness)?
● Is there one major factor (on campus or off
campus) you
would want to investigate that affects students’
happiness?
● How do the expectations about happiness that
society has in

18. general or a certain specific segment of society (for
instance, parents) has, relate to college or college
students?
● How much do preconceived notions and expectations
about
college life affect student happiness?
● Hard work is hard to enjoy. So how do students
balance that
hard work with the other joys of life?
This semester you will be investigating happiness and
some aspect of college life. You will either pick
some SPECIFIC GROUP you are interested in
studying. Here are some examples of a SPECIFIC
GROUP : first-year athletes (or better: freshman
football redshirts), sorority members, RAs, members of
religious groups, art students, students who work on
campus, international students (or better: Puerto
Rican college students), cafeteria workers, and so
forth.
OR you will investigate a certain aspect of college
life that FACTORS into either the overall college
students’ happiness or some segment of college
students’ happiness. Here are some examples of
FACTORS : technology, parking, textbooks, teaching
style, major selection, on-campus jobs, work,
parental pressure, procrastination, and so forth—though
I would suggest tying these to a specific group,
such as first-year students or early admission students,

19. I won’t require it.
Just note : it is better to start too specifically on a
narrow GROUP or FACTOR ; then, if the need
arises,
you can broaden the GROUP or FACTOR . You
might start your investigation with Puerto Rican
students, but find you have to expand it to students
from US territories, then students whose first
language is Spanish, and so forth.
Note that it is usually more interesting to study a
group that you are not a member of or that you
want to
understand better; however, this is not a requirement.
MOST IMPORTANTLY : FOLLOW WHAT
YOU ARE MOST INTERESTED IN—BEING
INTERESTED IN YOUR TOPIC MAKES A HUGE
DIFFERENCE FOR HOW YOUR SEMESTER GOES!
ENGLISH 102: RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS
● The Pitch
● Prospectus & Annotated Bibliography Essay 1
● Essays 2 & 3
● Essay 4
THE PITCH (tentative due date 2/5 & 2/7)
You will make a minute-long pitch in class (each
class decided to do this method). You will justify
your
planned topic and why you want to research it. You

20. will center the pitch around your research question.
By the time you submit your pitch, you will have
familiarized yourself with preliminary research about
your topic to get a general view of it and its
viability. What is the question about your topic that
you
want an answer to this semester? What have you
found in your preliminary research about it? Why is
it
valuable to research and study this specific topic?
Think Shark Tank--or how about guppy tank .
PROSPECTUS & ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ESSAY
1 (tentative due date 2/21)
1) In the Prospectus (500-750 words/MLA format),
you will explain your research topic for the semester
and what you plan to do for each essay. The
prospectus is more informal and you can use “I” in
it; it
won’t include sources because you should be writing
it from your general knowledge of the topic
without referring to specific sources. See pages 215-
18 in C&RG and my guidelines below. Note that
this is not just something you can write from the
top of your head. This takes a lot of legwork and
preliminary thinking, discussing, and research to be
sure it is a viable topic with viable mini-topics for
essays 2 and 3.
2) The annotated bibliography is a list of sources

21. that will serve as the foundation for your research
this
semester. It is a list of at least 10 sources (see
the specific requirements below) in MLA Works Cited
style, but in addition to the source information, you
provide information about the sources such as author
information and context, the type of source it is, a
summary of the source, quick evaluation, specific
sections that are of interest, your reactions to it,
and how you might use this in your essays this
semester.
See the specific directions in C&RG 219-220 about
multi-source annotated bibs and my example that is
linked in the assignment when we did our first
annotated bib entry. Please note, that the summary of
the
source must be your own summary—you cannot just
use the abstract that comes with the article!
Plagiarism rules apply! In each entry think: context ,
main point, summary, evaluation, and reflection
about how it might work into your essays this
semester.
The bibliography must contain the following types of
sources, but you are welcome and encouraged to
have more:
● at least 4 scholarly secondary sources (from
academic journals)
● at least 1 other secondary source (reliable but not
necessarily scholarly)
● at least 2 nonfiction primary sources
● at least 1 creative primary source
● the remaining sources should be reliable and
appropriate for academic essays.

22. WHAT TO INCLUDE IN YOUR PROSPECTUS
Introduction
See the section about the prospectus in the
Composition and Rhetoric Guide for more specific
help.
Describe your group or the factor you are
investigating and the connection to happiness. Why
you chose this group or factor and what about it
interests you. Say what you hope to argue/prove
OR, best, present your research question. You might
find writing and reviewing this paragraph
helps you with your pitch.
Each Body section 1-3 should develop most of the
following areas:
What you hope to discover/prove in this essay or
your limited research question geared to this
essay and any necessary explanation that will help
your audience. What opposition might say
(and perhaps how you might persuade them). What
specific categories of sources you might
look for and what sources do you already plan to
use. What primary sources you might use to
illustrate your point. What troubles you anticipate
having.
Body Section 1 (this corresponds to Essay 2-- make
sure you review the prompt for this essay below
before you tackle this !). For this essay you’ll have
two choices:

23. Option 1: explain a significant change in the group
or factor related to happiness and what you might
argue about it.
Option 2: You’ll do your own study on your
topic, and then in an essay modeled off a scholarly
research article, you will report what previous
scholars have said, how you conducted your study,
your findings from your own field research, and your
conclusions based on your research.
*For both options, you’ll discuss what type of field
study you are planning to conduct to gather
first-hand information and why you plan to use that
type.
Body Section Two (this corresponds to Essay 3--make
sure you review the prompt for this essay below!)
identifies and explains a controversial issue within
your topic and how you will tackle the argument.
Body Section Three (this corresponds to Essay 4--
make sure you review the prompt for this essay
below!)
explain why your research is important to pursue
and what impacts it might reveal. This essay will
try
to answer in an argument your main research
question for the semester. Also consider why your
audience should care about the group/factor you
focused on and what is the impact of your

24. findings on the group itself, students, colleges, and
possibly communities? You may also end up
discussing some of the implications for the future.
Conclusion
Why it is worth studying? Why is it important to
study? Overall opposition/what different sides will
say? Return to your thesis or research question and
consider what you think you’ll discover and
why.
Your annotated bibliography will then follow on a
new page but will be submitted in the same file as
the
prospectus.
ESSAYS 2-3, OVERALL REQUIREMENTS
● Each essay must make a well-supported argument
with well-integrated sources and be
based on the assigned prompts below. To get a
passing grade: you must support an
arguable thesis based on your own thoughts about
your topic and the sources you have
read and the research you have conducted; each must
also be a 1,000-1,300 words, have 5-6
sources minimum (see the individual requirements for
each essay) that are cited in the style
required for each essay. See the syllabus about the
other requirements as far as rough
draft, final draft, and revision submissions.

25. ● Sources must be well-integrated in the text of the
essay with the use of direct quotation,
summary, and paraphrase as well as in-text citations.
A Works Cited must be included, and
though it is the last page of your essay it does
not count as part of the word requirement!
● You will upload your drafts on Moodle.
● You will be asked to identify the portions of the
sources you used and submit hard copies of
your sources in a folder or files of your sources
online.
● Be sure to review the rubrics and checklist in
The Composition and Rhetoric Guide as you
draft and revise!
ESSAY 2: ARGUMENT/1,000 WORDS/6 INTEGRATED
SOURCES/MLA/WORKS CITED
(tentative due date 3/16)
Option 1: Argue a significant change in the group
or factor related to happiness.
Option 2: You’ll do your own study on your
topic, and then in an essay modeled off a scholarly
research article, you will report what previous
scholars have said, how you conducted your study,

26. your findings from your own field research, and your
conclusions based on your research.
Things to consider if you are writing about change:
Have things always been this way? If not, what
sparked a change? What caused the problem/issue to
begin or become significant? What kind of impact
did the significant change have on members of your
selected group or on the impression of the factor
you are focused on? How do current college students
reflect/or not reflect this change?
If you are going to conduct your own study,
you’ll figure out the best way to try to collect
information
about the group or factor, how you’ll conduct your
study, how you plan to collect information from the
subjects you are studying. You’ll also consider what
other researchers have found as you figure this all
out. Finally, you’ll make some conclusions about your
findings.
Required minimum source guidelines:
● at least 1 scholarly secondary source from an
academic journal
● at least 1 secondary nonfiction book source (does
not need to be scholarly)
● at least 1 field research primary source that you
conducted yourself.
● at least 1 primary nonfiction source or at least 1
creative media primary
source (try to have both of these because you’ll be
more likely to meet the
final essay 4 required sources)

27. ● a reliable source of any type (student’s choice) that
is appropriate for an
academic audience and purpose
ESSAY 3: ARGUMENT/1,000 WORDS/5 INTEGRATED
SOURCES/MLA & APA/WORKS
CITED & REFERENCES
(tentative due date 4/6)
For the third research essay, you will make a formal
argument regarding a controversial issue within
your topic having to do with the group or factor
you have been studying this semester. This will be
an
academic essay, but if you wish you could gear
your argument to your particular group or college
students in general. So for instance, if you are
studying how parents affect college student happiness,
you might choose to write to an audience of college
students to convince them of something about their
parents OR you might write to an audience of
parents to try to convince them of something about
their
college students. If you don’t want to aim toward a
specific audience, you’ll be writing to a general
audience.
Required minimum source guidelines:
Three scholarly secondary sources
Two primary

28. ESSAY 4: ARGUMENT/2,000 WORDS/MUST BE
SUBMITTED TO MOODLE/10
SOURCES/WORKS CITED
(tentative due date 4/24)
All of the same submission standards for Essays 2-3
listed above apply to this essay except the word
count and number of sources: 2000 words and a
minimum of 10 sources as listed below.
This essay is the culmination of all your work this
semester. Based on what you have learned this
semester, you will argue the role of happiness in
your group or how it relates to the factor you’ve
chosen. Can happiness factor into student success?
What is student success: social? academic?
self-confidence? resiliency? a good job? a proud
family? Should students expect to be happy most of
the
time in college? Alternatively, do students understand
that hard work and tough choices may lead to
greater happiness later? Should colleges (including
students) do more to promote happiness and
well-being? Should students care more about their own
foundational happiness? What are the
implications for the future? What needs to be studied
more?
You will be using parts of your other essays to
complete this one, BUT this should feel like a new
essay
and not just a copy and paste job! You most likely
have to do some new research to support your
thesis.

29. Required minimum source guidelines:
Seven scholarly (at least three academic journals)
Three primary (at least one creative source)
See my syllabus about what to do if Essay 1
doesn’t go well & revising Essays 2, & 3 for a
new grade
and the required procedure and last day of
submission for doing this. If you are unhappy with
your
grade, you should come to see me immediately and
use the writing center to get help. There is a
portfolio review option as well if you have made
improvements over the semester—see the explanation
in the Composition and Rhetoric Guide . Please ask
for help if you are feeling stuck!
REFLECTION PORTION OF YOUR ESSAY GRADE
You will be asked to submit a rough draft with a
detailed description of what you think is working
and not working and why. Failure to reflect in
depth will lower your essay grade and I will not
give
feedback on any essay that does not include this
detailed reflection. This draft and your reflections on
it
may count toward your overall grade on that essay.
When you finish a final draft of essays 2, 3, and
4, on the next class day, you will submit a

30. reflection
that’s at least three paragraphs that contain the
following:
♥ Paragraph 1: You will reflect on what’s working
and not working on the essay and WHY this is
and assign a letter grade to your essay that you
believe would be fair based on the final product
(not necessarily the effort you put into it)—you can
use the self-analysis rubric to guide you.
♥ Paragraph 2: You’ll discuss the decisions you made
during the writing of the essay, both on the
page and in how you allotted time and effort. So
you might discuss why you tried an informal
but catchy introduction and your decision to have a
two-paragraph conclusion with sources cited
in it, and then discuss that you really thought a lot
about writing the essay for the whole week but
when it came down to it you started to work on
the final draft at 9PM before it was due and you
ran out of time and energy.
♥ Paragraph 3: You’ll reflect on what you are
learning about writing and yourself as a writer.
Please be extra careful to follow my submission
instructions for drafts and final drafts.