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COM 156 Entire Course For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com  
  n 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. Resources
Appendix A Appendix D Select a general topic
for your research paper from the following list
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COM 156 Week 2 DQ 1 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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)
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esource 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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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) For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Review the
feedback you received on your Week Two Assignment
(Appendix E). Review AppendixF. Complete the
two-part assignment described in 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.
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COM 156 Week 4 DQ 1 For more classes
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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 2 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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)
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ource Appendix H Review the criteria for
outlines in the Developing Outlines video on
the student website. 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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For
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s Center for Writing Excellence
WritePoint Plagiarism Checker
Sample Paper (APA and Writing Style
Guidelines) Grammar and Writing Guides
APA Reference and Citation Examples Create the
body paragraphs of your research paper by
converting your outline into the body of your
paper. (You will write the introduction and
conclusion in Week Seven.)
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COM 156 Week 7 DQ 1 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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) For more classes
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Review the components of an effective
introduction and an effective conclusion outlined
in this Weeks reading and 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.
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COM 156 Week 8 DQ 1 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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) For more classes
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J. Use Appendix J as a checklist or prewriting
tool before you write your response. Write a 300-
to 400-word response to the following in a new
Microsoft Word document 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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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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 For more classes
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still your biggest challenge with APA formatting?
How might you overcome it?  
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COM 156 Week 9 Individual Research Paper For
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Appendix A Appendix K Compose a 1,450- to
1,700-word research paper. Include the following
elements in your research paper Title
page Introduction with a thesis
statement Body paragraphs with
supporting evidence, including in-text
citations Conclusion
Reference list of citations containing at least
three to five sourcesat least two from the
University Library
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