What to write about?: Enhancing Employee Training on Mobile Security Issues: A Synthesis of Perspectives

Integration of Sources:

At least eight sources(from any credible source) must be cited in the body of the essay. You may

cite sources in your introduction to help you define terms, and you may cite sources in your

conclusion to help you direct the reader to further inquiry. However, the body of the essay

should synthesize at least 8 sources.

Strategies for Developing the Topic for this Essay

Up to this point in the semester, you have completed an annotated bibliography on your chosen

topic. You have also incorporated and synthesized six sources into writing assignment #2. The

work you have completed for these assignments provides a solid foundation for writing

assignment #3.

the scholarly literature in the topic on which you conducted research. For example, consider the

following examples:

You may have researched studies in criminal justice and found that there are varying opinions

on how to respond to criminal behavior among youth.

You may have researched studies in psychology and found that counseling strategies for

victims of domestic abuse tend to fall into four categories.

You may have researched articles on gerontology and found studies that answered three basic

questions on how older adults respond to training for physical performance.

You may have researched articles on environmental management and found studies on

climate change. You noticed that various demographic factors influence whether individuals

believe in climate change and, if so, whether they believe it is caused by human activity.

In the synthesis essay, you will focus your research efforts in a particular area, as a response to

what you found while writing the annotated bibliography and in constructing the six-source

essay. You will then conduct more research and synthesize your findings in this literature review.

Please note that the annotated bibliography and the six-source essay represent a journey in

your research.

You might decide to disregard several of the articles you analyzed in the critical annotated

bibliography or in the following essay because they do not speak to the specific area on which

you have decided to write multiple-source literature review. You might select one article

that you analyzed in the critical annotated bibliography, look up the articles cited in that article,

and "snowball" your research in that way.

In other words, this process is a recursive one. You might find reasons to hone in on and narrow

your topic even further after you have written the annotated bibliography.

For these reasons, you are strongly encouraged to write on the same general topic on which you

wrote writing assignment #2. You might focus on the topic more for writing assignment #3. Or

you might expand on the topic for writing assignment #3.

How to organize the multiple-source essay:

You will divide the essay into categories. Each category will be labeled with a heading. For you

to see this concept with a real-life example, you can access a sample synthesis or literature

review from a psychology student that you can find in Week 7 Content/Resources under

PSYCHSample_LitReview.

The student authors her paper on the following topic: Emotional Eating: The Perpetual Cycle of

MoodFood Influence. She divides her literature into the following categories, which are used as

headings throughout the paper:

Influence of Mood on Eating Behavior

Gender Differences

Influence of Eating Behavior on Later Moods

Chronic Stress Response Network

Notice how she synthesizes and integrates the research into distinct categories, labeled by

headings.

Strategies for Developing Categories

When you have focused on your topic, determine how you will divide the literature. In other

words, consider the following examples we described above:

You may have researched studies in criminal justice and found that there are varying opinions

on how to respond to criminal behavior among youth.

You might divide the paper as follows:

Introduction

Body

Category 1: "A" view on responding to criminal behavior.

Category 2: "B" view on responding to criminal behavior.

Category 3: "C" view on responding to criminal behavior.

Category 4: "D" view on responding to criminal behavior.

Conclusion

You may have researched studies in psychology and found that counseling strategies for victims

of domestic abuse tend to fall into four categories. You might divide the paper as follows:

Introduction

Body

Category 1: "A" counseling strategy for victims of child abuse

Category 2: "B" counseling strategy for victims of child abuse

Category 3: "C" counseling strategy for victims of child abuse

Category 4: "D" counseling strategy for victims of child abuse

Conclusion

You may have researched articles on gerontology and found studies that answered three basic

questions on how older adults respond to training for physical performance. You might divide

the paper as follows:

Introduction

Body

Question 1

Question 2

Question 3

Conclusion

You may have researched articles on environmental management and found studies on climate

change. You noticed that various demographic factors influence whether individuals believe in

climate change and, if so, whether they believe it is caused by human activity. You might divide

the paper as follows:

Introduction

Body

Political affiliation and its impact on belief in climate change

Socio-economic status and its impact on belief in climate change

Religious and other influences on belief in climate change

Conclusion

Point of view

For this essay, you will use a third-person point of view. Please do not use the first person point

of view (e.g., "I," "me," "we") in writing this essay. In addition, please do not use a

second-person point of view ("you" or "your") in writing this essay. For example, instead of

"Smith argues that, as a director, you have a duty to coordinate cybersecurity efforts..." you

would write, "Smith argues that directors have a duty to coordinate cybersecurity efforts

...

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