During your studies at Monroe College you are taking classes to learn about your major course of study as preparation to enter your future career.As you progress in your major you probablyread about incidents in print/onlinenewspapers or magazines, and sometimes these incidents make you question decisions/policies within your future industry.When you learn about these incidents you think to yourself: "this could have been prevented", "it could have been handled better", "why don't they develop a policy to prevent this from happening?", "isn't there a more efficient way to handle this?" - the list of questions is endless.

For example, as a criminal justice major you may have read articles about domestic violence victims who refuse to press charges against his/her abuser and then are murdered.Maybe you thought to yourself: "why wasn't the abuser arrested even though the victim didn't want to press charges"?Your thought process actually questions police policy.

*YOUR formal report will explore a controversial issue in your major course of study/industryandwill require thatyou recommend solutions to address the problem/issue (recommendation report) that you identify

For Week 10:*All that is due filled in for the assignment is: Use the sample I have provided as your guide

1) letter of transmittal

2) Introduction

3) The table of contents - Titles and the page numbers

1.In order to begin the project,this weekyou will locate newspaper/magazine articles etc. via the Internet about a recent incident or controversial issue in your major course of study.

2.Nextyou willwrite the assignment of the recommendation reportANDidentify the issuethe incident raises about your industry(employee turnover, police brutality, nurse staffing levels, etc).*You should use the sample recommendation report I have provided. Fill in as much information as you can. If you do not have all of the information you can put N/A. However, please make sure all of theheadingsare there.

*** Submit your - Recommendation report outline to the Week 10 Assignment dropboxbySunday at 5 PM.

This is for the Annotated Bibliography - due week 11

Once you have identified the issue,you will conduct a Boolean search via the Monroe College Library electronic databasestolocate 3 (Primary) scholarly and trade journal articles that discuss the issueANDwrite a summary of the articles findings and then why the article will be useful for your report.Then look for 2 (Secondary) internet sources and write summaries for those and then why the article will be useful for your report.Be sure to refer tothe website evaluation checklist http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/EvalForm.pdf to determine if your Internet source is appropriate for academic use. This is what will be due in Week 11.

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**** Below are the instructions for your final project which will be completed in stages, with the final draft due during week 14.The assignments in weeks 10-13 will assist you in the preparation of the recommendation report.There will beLIVE Chat next week, to review the requirements for this project.

The assignment is based on this scenario:

You are a manager/supervisor in a company or organization in your desired future industry.At a recent staff meeting the decision maker within your company/organization (Vice President, Captain, Director, etc.) stated that he/she is aware of the negative publicity the company/organization has received due to an issue covered in the media.The decision maker wants to implement some type of action to address the issue and asks you toprepare a reportthat includes ananalysisof the situation,recommendationsto address/resolve/prevent the issue, and a visual aid.

Procedure:

In order for you to complete this assignment you will need to conduct some research about the issue (causes, prevalence, statistics, liability/costs) and methods to address/remedy/prevent the issue.

Yourresearch should include: at leastTHREE(Primary) scholarly/trade journal articles (use library electronic databases) and at leastTWO(Secondary) Internet sources.