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COM 156 Week 1 Individual Research Plan (Appendix
D) COM 156 Week 1 DQ 1 COM 156 Week 1 DQ 2 COM
156 Week 1 DQ 3 COM 156 Week 2 Individual
Strategies for Gathering and Evaluating Sources
(Appendix E)
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COM 156 Week 1 DQ 1  
WEEK 1 DQ 1 People often come across research in
everyday life or are curious about a topic and
decide to conduct their own research. Identify a
time you wanted to research something and explain
how you performed the research and what you
learned as a result. How can you apply this
experience to your own academic research?
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COM 156 Week 1 DQ 2
WEEK 1 DQ 2 Review Ch. 1, Section 2 of Writing
for Success. What are the suggested methods for
selecting a research topic? What method do you
think will work best for you and why?
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COM 156 Week 1 DQ 3
WEEK 1 DQ 3 Consider the time management tips
you have learned in previous courses. What types
of information should you include in your project
schedule? How do you plan to manage your research
and writing to ensure your project is completed
on time? Remember to change the subject line of
your post to reflect the main idea!?
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COM 156 Week 1 Individual Research Plan (Appendix
D)
In most cases, students are simultaneously
enrolled in COM/156 and PSY/201. Suggested
research topics for your final paper are listed
below. The paper is an informative paper and not
a persuasive paper, where you would be asked to
take a stand and support it.
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COM 156 Week 2 DQ 1
WEEK 2 DQ 1 What websites do you normally
frequent? Are these websites credible? When is
credibility more important and when is it less
important? Support your answers with specific
examples. Remember to change the subject line to
reflect the main idea of your post! I look
forward to reading your replies!
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COM 156 Week 2 DQ 2
WEEK 2 DQ 2 What should you consider when
searching for useful sources? How do you know
when sources are reliable? What are some red
flags that indicate you should avoid a particular
source?
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COM 156 Week 2 DQ 3
WEEK 2 DQ 3 Is it difficult to determine a
sources bias? What difficulties might you face
as you critically read and analyze a source?
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COM 156 Week 2 Individual Strategies for
Gathering and Evaluating Sources (Appendix E)
Locate three sources you think you can use to
support your final project. At least two of these
sources should come from the University Library.
Evaluate each source by answering the questions
in Appendix E. NoteYou will use this assignment
as the basis for part of your Week Three
Assignment. Your effort during on this assignment
will make the Week Three assignment easier to
complete.
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COM 156 Week 3 DQ 1
WEEK 3 DQ 1 What is a style guide? Is adhering
to a style guide important? Why or why not?
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COM 156 Week 3 DQ 2
WEEK 3 DQ 2 University of Phoenix selected the
Publication Manual of the American Psychological
Association as a resource for all academic
writing. The manual is the style guide most often
used for writing in disciplines such as business
and education, though some other fields have
their own style guides. Do you think the
university was wise to choose a style guide for
the entire university? Why or why not?
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COM 156 Week 3 DQ 3
WEEK 3 DQ 3 Imagine the impact of sending a
business letter or memo that is improperly
formatted. In particular, think about rules or
standards that must be followed at your place of
business. Do you think the reasons for rules and
tradition for communication at your workplace
apply to academic writing? Why, or why not?
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COM 156 Week 3 Individual Writing an Annotated
Bibliography and Quoting, Summarizing, and
Paraphrasing a Source (Appendix F)  
Use Riverpoint Writer to create a new document
with a correctly formatted title page. Start your
annotated bibliography on p. 2 of the document.
Post your assignment as a single Microsoft Word
attachment via the Assignments link. Review the
additional resources from the Center for Writing
Excellence for further support Sample Annotated
Bibliography
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COM 156 Week 4 DQ 1
WEEK 4 DQ 1 A good thesis statement helps guide
the rest of your paper. Do you think this is
true? Is it true of a poor thesis statement as
well? Why?
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COM 156 Week 4 DQ 3
WEEK 4 DQ 3 Do you think the following is a weak
or strong thesis statement The subject of this
paper is my experience with teaching elementary
school children? If yes, why is it weak? How
could you improve it? If no, what qualities do
you think it has that make it adequate?
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COM 156 Week 4 DQ 3
WEEK 4 DQ 3 Do you think the following is a weak
or strong thesis statement The subject of this
paper is my experience with teaching elementary
school children? If yes, why is it weak? How
could you improve it? If no, what qualities do
you think it has that make it adequate?
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COM 156 Week 4 Individual Thesis Statement
(Appendix G)
Use the following thesis equation in this Weeks
reading to develop a thesis statement for your
research essay limited topic controlling
idea, point, attitude, or slant thesis
statement Post your assignment as a Microsoft
Word attachment via the Assignments link for your
instructors approval and feedback.
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COM 156 Week 5 DQ 1
WEEK 5 DQ 1 The video Developing Outlines
provides an overview of the purpose of planning
an outline. Does an outline make the writing
process go more smoothly? How?
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COM 156 Week 5 DQ 2
WEEK 5 DQ 2 In our assigned article, Tips on
Honing Your Writing, we are told the outline is
the most important step in writing it is the
architecture of writing words and sentences are
just the interior decoration (p. 103). Does this
statement surprise you? Why or why not? Why is
the outline the most important stepeven more
that the actual draft?
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COM 156 Week 5 DQ 3
WEEK 5 DQ 3 In the writing process you use
developing an outline, planning topic sentences,
and identifying supporting points in planning and
writing your final essay. Do you think these
steps are essential? Why or why not?
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COM 156 Week 5 Individual Outline (Appendix H)
Create an outline, using Appendix H, with details
that support your thesis. Outline
only the body of your paper. Remember
to avoid bias to strengthen your writing and
present a balanced case for your thesis.
Include in-text citations in your outline and
reference citations at the end.
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COM 156 Week 6 DQ 1
WEEK 6 DQ 1 It is important that an essay not be
a series of quotes or paraphrased material ones
own analysis must be part of the essay. How can
you create a balance between your own analysis
and the source material?
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COM 156 Week 6 DQ 2
WEEK 6 DQ 2 Choose one of the following
scenarios The leadership role of women in
national politics has changed dramatically in the
last 60 years. Teachers and parents are concerned
with whether standardized tests are a good
indicator of a child's intelligence. A healthy
diet and regular exercise improve health and
lower health care costs.
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COM 156 Week 6 DQ 3
WEEK 6 DQ 3 Parallelism, sentence variety, and
sentence clarity are necessary to effectively
complete your body paragraphs. Why? How might you
use them?
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COM 156 Week 6 Individual Body Paragraphs
WritePoint Plagiarism
Checker Sample Paper (APA and Writing
Style Guidelines) Grammar and Writing
Guides APA Reference and Citation Examples
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COM 156 Week 7 DQ 1
WEEK 7 DQ 1 Ch. 9, Section 4 of Writing for
Success explains the role an effective
introduction should have in a paper. What aspect
of writing an introduction do you anticipate may
be a challenge for you? Why?
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COM 156 Week 7 DQ 2
WEEK 7 DQ 2 What type of introduction do you
plan to write for your paper? Why did you choose
this type of introduction?
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COM 156 Week 7 DQ 3
WEEK 7 DQ 3 One purpose of the introduction is
to draw readers into your topic. Is that
important? Why or why not?
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COM 156 Week 7 Individual Introduction and
Conclusion (Appendix I)
Write the introduction for your research paper.
Use techniques to draw readers into your thesis.
Write a conclusion for your research paper that
effectively summarizes your paper. Add both the
introduction and conclusion to the body
paragraphs you submitted in Week Six. (It is not
necessary to have revised those body paragraphs
at this point you will do that in Week Eight.)
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COM 156 Week 8 DQ 1
WEEK 8 DQ 1 What was your experience using the
Center for Writing Excellence in the past? In
addition to the Center for Writing Excellence,
what other writing tools are available for
revising a research paper?
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COM 156 Week 8 DQ 2
WEEK 8 DQ 2 In addition to the Center for
Writing Excellence, what other writing tools
might you rely on for revising a research paper?
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COM 156 Week 8 DQ 3
WEEK 8 DQ 3 In which areas do you think you need
to improve? How will you make these improvements.

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COM 156 Week 8 Individual Revision Analysis
(Appendix J)
Describe, in detail, the feedback you received
from WritePoint, from the Plagiarism Checker
report through the Center for Writing Excellence,
from your facilitator, and from any peers in a
peer-review thread. Explain the changes you
will make to revise your own paper based on this
feedback.
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COM 156 Week 9 DQ 1
WEEK 9 DQ 1 his course has provided you with
several writing strategies and skills you can use
to improve your writing. Which strategies or
skills from the do you think will be most helpful
as you develop as a writer and researcher? Why?
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COM 156 Week 9 DQ 2
WEEK 9 DQ 2 The introduction in this course of
the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association as a resource for
writing was to increase your confidence when
using it. Was that goal accomplished? Why or why
not?
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COM 156 Week 9 DQ 3
WEEK 9 DQ 3 What is still your biggest challenge
with APA formatting? How might you overcome it?
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COM 156 Week 9 Individual Research Paper
Title page Introduction with
a thesis statement Body paragraphs with
supporting evidence, including in-text
citations Conclusion
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