This assignment requires you to research a contemporary issue in engineering and present an issue-focused pro and con paper on it (including an economic discussion).
Topic : Flood control and management with some specification of Florida recent issues
Develop an unbiased “topic statement,” then present contrasting sides of the issue in your paper, with a conclusion you feel represents the topic fairly and impartially. The paper should explore the following information: a. Overview of the topic b. Organizations involved in the initiative/project and other major parties involved c. Overview of the costs, any financing information, and sources of funding (this is an Econ class!) d. Planned schedule and completion date e. Any challenges to the initiative/project f. Any new technologies, materials or procedures comprising the initiative/project 2. Papers should be 6 pages in length (not counting the title page, abstract, or reference page), written in APA style, double-spaced, 1” margins, 12-point font, with all references cited within the body of the paper (at least two “reputable” websites; one peer-reviewed journal/magazine article) and properly listed at end (APA style)
It is difficult in some countries, if not outright banned, for men to work for women. Cultural differences like this complicate working outside one’s culture.
In your paper,
Explain the most significant areas where the countries are similar and different according to Hofstede’s cultural orientation model.
Identify two issues that could arise in terms of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions from your two countries attempting to work together.
Analyze how communication technology can be utilized to bridge communication between cultures.
For additional guidance on writing compare and contrast papers refer the Writing Center’s resource Compare & Contrast AssignmentsLinks to an external site.. You will likely find better research results searching for keywords that address Hofstede’s cultural dimensions (e.g. collectivist and individualist) rather than keywords that compare specific countries (e.g. Australia and Azerbaijan).
The Technology and International Communication paper
must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph. Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
must use at least 5 scholarly or credible sources in addition to the course text. Blogs are not sufficient credible sources.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible SourcesLinks to an external site. table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for this assignment.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, review How to Use Library OneSearchLinks to an external site. tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
For this Performance Task Assessment, you will write a letter to a state or national legislator, proposing a healthcare policy that addresses a health issue currently impacting your state.
Advocating for Healthcare Policy
You are a health program director for your state health department. In your work, you have become aware of the many areas where reform is still needed in order to fulfill the healthcare goals of the future. In order to better serve your community, you have decided to write a letter to a legislator to propose a healthcare policy that will address one of the pressing health issues facing your state. Your letter will be a persuasive, fact-based call to action that will encourage positive social change.
Click each of the items below to complete this assessment.
Choose a health issue that is currently impacting your state and that you link to what you predict to be future trends in healthcare. Research the breadth and depth of the health issue and, then, compose your letter according to the following guidelines: Address your letter to a legislator at the state or national level, depending upon the state-wide or national relevance of the health issue.
Note: If your health issue is a national-level concern, you may choose a member of the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate from any state who would be likely to support your policy. If your health issue is a state-level concern, you should choose a member of your state’s House of Representatives or Senate.
The following website can help you find the appropriate legislator:
USA.gov. (2019). How to contact your elected officials. Retrieved from https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
This sample letter can be used as a guide:
North Los Angeles Country Regional Center. (n.d.). Sample letter that you can use to write to your legislator. Retrieved July 30, 2019, from https://www.nlacrc.org/home/showdocument?id=272
Paragraph 1:
Introduce yourself and describe your experience and knowledge of the health issue.
Introduce your purpose for writing by briefly stating the health issue.
Identify the effect of the health issues on your state.
Advocate for the policy proposed to solve the health issue.
Paragraph 2:
Describe the health issue and its impact on your state population using quantitative and/or qualitative data to support your claims, where possible.
Paragraph 3:
Elaborate on the policy that you would propose.
Include the actionable steps that it would take to resolve the health issue.
Propose a method for implementing the policy.
Project the possible effects of the policy (e.g., lower incidence of disease, higher life expectancy for a population, etc.), estimating realistic quantitative or qualitative impacts, where possible.
Paragraph 4:
Identify stakeholders from your state—such as insurance companies, medical professional associations, etc.—that would potentially support the policy and describe what kind of assistance they might provide.
Paragraph 5:
Describe to the legislator the advantages and/or disadvantages if he or she chooses to support the policy, indicating how constituents might respond.
Restate the impact that this policy will have on the future of healthcare.
Thank the legislator for his or her time and consideration of your issue and conclude your letter.
Use at least three credible sources and cite them using APA format.
For this assessment, you will create a 2-4 page plan proposal for an interprofessional team to collaborate and work toward driving improvements in the organizational issue you identified in the second assessment.SCENARIO
Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary intervention to address the issue.
Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the plan should be evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your interviewee’s organization.
INSTRUCTIONS
For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the information gathered in your interview.
The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.
Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Length of submission: Use the provided template. Remember that part of this assessment is to make the plan easy to understand and use, so it is critical that you are clear and concise. Most submissions will be 2 to 4 pages in length. Be sure to include a reference page at the end of the plan.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than 5 years old.
APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style.
SCORING GUIDE- Describes an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes, including methods from the literature that may be used to determine success.- Explains a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan, providing real-world examples relevant to the health care organization that is the context for the plan.- Explains the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective, including best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature. Provides real-world examples relevant to the health care organization that is the context for the plan.- Explains organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done to make the improvements sought by the plan. Provides real-world examples relevant to the health care organization that is the context for the plan.- Organizes content with a clear purpose. Content flows logically with smooth transitions using coherent paragraphs, correct grammar/punctuation, word choice, and free of spelling errors.- Exhibits strict and flawless adherence to APA formatting of headings, in-text citations, and references. Quotes and paraphrases correctly.
For this Performance Task Assessment, you will write a letter to a state or national legislator, proposing a healthcare policy that addresses a health issue currently impacting your state.
Advocating for Healthcare Policy
You are a health program director for your state health department. In your work, you have become aware of the many areas where reform is still needed in order to fulfill the healthcare goals of the future. In order to better serve your community, you have decided to write a letter to a legislator to propose a healthcare policy that will address one of the pressing health issues facing your state. Your letter will be a persuasive, fact-based call to action that will encourage positive social change.
Click each of the items below to complete this assessment.
Choose a health issue that is currently impacting your state and that you link to what you predict to be future trends in healthcare. Research the breadth and depth of the health issue and, then, compose your letter according to the following guidelines: Address your letter to a legislator at the state or national level, depending upon the state-wide or national relevance of the health issue.
Note: If your health issue is a national-level concern, you may choose a member of the U.S. House of Representatives or the U.S. Senate from any state who would be likely to support your policy. If your health issue is a state-level concern, you should choose a member of your state’s House of Representatives or Senate.
The following website can help you find the appropriate legislator:
USA.gov. (2019). How to contact your elected officials. Retrieved from https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials
This sample letter can be used as a guide:
North Los Angeles Country Regional Center. (n.d.). Sample letter that you can use to write to your legislator. Retrieved July 30, 2019, from https://www.nlacrc.org/home/showdocument?id=272
Paragraph 1:
Introduce yourself and describe your experience and knowledge of the health issue.
Introduce your purpose for writing by briefly stating the health issue.
Identify the effect of the health issues on your state.
Advocate for the policy proposed to solve the health issue.
Paragraph 2:
Describe the health issue and its impact on your state population using quantitative and/or qualitative data to support your claims, where possible.
Paragraph 3:
Elaborate on the policy that you would propose.
Include the actionable steps that it would take to resolve the health issue.
Propose a method for implementing the policy.
Project the possible effects of the policy (e.g., lower incidence of disease, higher life expectancy for a population, etc.), estimating realistic quantitative or qualitative impacts, where possible.
Paragraph 4:
Identify stakeholders from your state—such as insurance companies, medical professional associations, etc.—that would potentially support the policy and describe what kind of assistance they might provide.
Paragraph 5:
Describe to the legislator the advantages and/or disadvantages if he or she chooses to support the policy, indicating how constituents might respond.
Restate the impact that this policy will have on the future of healthcare.
Thank the legislator for his or her time and consideration of your issue and conclude your letter.
Use at least three credible sources and cite them using APA format.
As you continue to learn about psychopharmacology, you will find that medications used to treat mental health conditions are agonists across the spectrum. It will be important for you to recognize some of those medications and how they act on a variety of neurochemicals in different ways to treat the symptoms.
In this Assignment, you will “scavenger” the literature as you research the agonist spectrum and key neurotransmitters and pathways targeted in psychopharmacology. You will have the opportunity to apply your knowledge as you create a Concept Map exploring each of the agonist spectrum listed below. Support your answers with evidence-based, peer-reviewed scholarly literature. APA style format title page, citations, and references will apply.
Note: You will not set up your Assignment as a paragraph-formatted paper but, instead, as a creative, visually appealing Concept Map.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review the Learning Resources assigned this week.
Review the Concept Map resources.
Explore the listed agonist spectrum and consider the action and receptor of each:
Agonist
Partial agonist
Antagonist
Inverse agonist
The Assignment
You will submit a concept map exploring the four agonists on the agonist spectrum (agonist, partial agonist, antagonist, and inverse agonist) in which you:
Describe the different characteristics of the four agonists and how each mediates distinct biological activities. Include proposed mechanisms and the receptor it is targeting.
Identify how the P450 enzyme system plays a role in the body’s absorption, distribution, and clearance of medication.
Scavenge the literature after describing each agonist on the spectrum for research that is based on the medications in the table below.
Apply the medications to the appropriate agonist on the agonist spectrum in your Concept Map.
Drugs.com Links to an external site.. (2023). https://www.drugs.com/ Note: Please use the following resource to check the most up-to-date box warnings, FDA approvals and indications, recommendations for follow-up evaluations. changes, etc.
CRIJ 1301 Criminal Justice Contemporary Issue L. Introduction a. Define police accountability b. History continues to repeat itself often when it comes to police brutality in black and brown communities. (why) c. Detective Ryan Flanigan has been active since 2006, so I decided to interview him for his years of service, and he has been accused of actions that call for him to be held accountable. (interviewee and why) Il. Historical a. Evolution of policing i. Birth of modern policing ii. Personalization and reform ili. Civil rights movement and accountability iv. Post 9/11 and accountability chattenges v. Recent movements and reforms Ill. Frameworks for Accountability a. Legal frameworks i. Constitutional protections ii. Federal and state laws governing the police b. Internal accountability mechanisms i. Police department policies and procedures c. External accountability mechanisms i. Civilian review boards IV. Challenges to Police Accountability a. Systemic issues i. Lack of transparency ii. Police culture and resistance to reform V. Case studies a. Tyre Nichols b. Tamir Rice VI. Best practices and innovations a. Effective training and education b. Community engagement strategies VIl. c. Successful accountability frameworks Policy recommendations VIII. IX. a. Promoting community involvement Conclusion References a. Who police the police Gene Grabiner b. Sworn to Protect Perry Lyle and Ashraf M. Esmail
For this assessment, assume you are a nurse attending a meeting of your state nurse association. A nurse informaticist conducted a presentation on her role and its impact on positive patient and organizational outcomes in her workplace. You realize that your organization is undergoing many technological changes. You believe this type of role could provide many benefits to your organization. • Review the focus of the new nurse informaticist position you will propose by examining the Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF]resource. (Attached) You decide to pursue proposing a nurse informaticist role in your organization. You speak to your chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager, who asks you to prepare a 5-7-page evidence-based proposal to support the new role. In this way, they can make an informed decision as to whether the addition of such a role could justify the return on investment (ROI). They need your proposal before an upcoming fiscal meeting. This is not an essay, but instead, it is a proposal to create a new Nurse Informaticist position. One important part of this assessment is the justification of the need for a nurse informaticist in a healthcare organization and references from relevant and timely scholarly or professional resources to support the justification for creating this nurse informaticist position. The term justifies means to show or prove that the nurse informaticist position brings value to the organization. This justification must include evidence from the literature to support that this position will provide a return on investment for the organization. Proposal Format The chief nursing officer (CNO) and human resources (HR) manager have asked you to include the headings below in your proposal and to be sure to address the bullets following each heading. Remember that you will emphasize the focus of the new nurse informaticist position as described in the Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF] Download Assessment 01 Supplement: Nursing Informatics in Health Care [PDF]resource. (Attached) Nursing Informatics and the Nurse Informaticist • What is nursing informatics? • What is the role of the nurse informaticist? Nurse Informaticists and Other Health Care Organizations • What is the experience of other healthcare organizations with nurse informaticists? • How do these nurse informaticists interact with the rest of the nursing staff and the interdisciplinary team? Impact of Full Nurse Engagement in Health Care Technology • How do fully engaging nurses in health care technology impact: o Patient care? o Protected health information (security, privacy, and confidentiality)? In this section, you will explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse informaticist and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients’ protected health information, particularly privacy, security, and confidentiality. Evidence-based means that they are supported by evidence from scholarly sources. o Workflow? o Costs and return on investment? Opportunities and Challenges • What are the opportunities and challenges for nurses and the interdisciplinary team with the addition of a nurse informaticist role? o How can the interdisciplinary team collaborate to improve quality care outcomes through technology? Summary of Recommendations • What are 3–4 key takeaways from your proposal about the recommended nurse informaticist role that you want the CNO and the HR manager to remember? o This is the section where the justification for the implementation of the nursing informaticist role is addressed. Remember to include evidence from the literature to support your recommendation. Additional Requirements • Written communication: Ensure written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message. • Submission length: 4–5 double-spaced pages, in addition to title and references pages. • Font: Times New Roman, 12 points. • Citations and References: Cite a minimum of three current scholarly and/or authoritative sources to support your ideas. In addition, cite a minimum of one current professional blog or website to support your central ideas. Current means no more than five years old. • APA formatting: Be sure to follow APA formatting and style guidelines for citations and references. For an APA refresher, consult the Evidence and APA page on Campus. Competencies Measured By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria: • Competency 1: Describe nurses’ and the interdisciplinary team’s role in informatics with a focus on electronic health information and patient care technology to support decision making. o Define nursing informatics and the role of the nurse informaticist. o Explain how the nurse collaborates with the interdisciplinary team, including technologists, to improve the quality of patient care. o Justify the need for a nurse informaticist in a health care organization. • Competency 2: Implement evidence-based strategies to effectively manage protected health information. o Explain evidence-based strategies that the nurse and interdisciplinary team can use to effectively manage patients protected health information (privacy, security, and confidentiality). • Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly communication to facilitate use of health information and patient care technologies. o Follow APA style and formatting guidelines for citations and references. o Create a clear, well-organized, and professional proposal that is generally free from errors in grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
You made it! You are now the expert in your consultant’s speech. All of the hard parts of the final project are done, now you just have to put them together.
Goal
● Clearly explain the similarities and differences between your consultant’s speech and the way their language is described in your main reference source.
● Use the IPA to communicate your findings to other linguists/phoneticians,
● Use your knowledge of acoustic phonetics to support your claims with evidence from spectrograms and/or waveforms.
To do:
❏ Finalize consonant and vowel charts
❏ Describe the language’s sound system based on your main source[1]
❏ Compare/contrast what your speaker did with your source’s description
❏ Identify area(s) where acoustic images can help support your description(s) and create image(s) in Praat
Checklist before submitting:
❏ Read your paper to yourself out loud to catch spelling mistakes and grammatical errors
❏ Consider exchanging papers with a classmate for help with proofreading & clarity
❏ Make sure you have adequately cited your source material. If you include any quotes, they must be cited in the text of the paper. Avoid accidental plagiarism by paraphrasing information from your sources in your own words.
❏ Make sure the filenames of your recording and TextGrid match (except for the file extension)
To submit:
The final project will be submitted on BruinLearn. You will turn in:
❏ Final paper (.pdf file) – aim for 8-10 pages (tables, images, wordlist, and references not included)
❏ Your edited recording (.wav file)
❏ A TextGrid containing item numbers and glosses (.TextGrid file)
The paper
The first three paragraphs of the paper will basically be the same as your first preliminary report, updated with information about how you got the words for your wordlist and any new relevant information about your speaker’s background.
Then the paper should describe what the source(s) you consulted said about the phonemes and allophones of the language. Either interspersed in the same section or in a following section, you will discuss how your speaker actually produced the sounds, and how that compared with the expectations you had based on your sources.
Your paper will include at least one spectrogram and/or waveform as evidence to support your claim about some aspect of the language. This could be to demonstrate the difference between tones, a vowel length contrast, allophonic variation in voice-onset time, or anything else you can think of. Any acoustic images you include should be clearly labeled to show the reader what portion of the sound you are discussing. See below for instructions on how to get good images from Praat.
Suggested paper organization
As long as you include the bolded parts listed above, you are free to not follow these organization suggestions exactly.
Background (language and speaker, based on preliminary report)
Consonants
● Consonant chart (including only the rows/columns relevant for the language)
● Descriptions of consonants based on reference source, split into subsections by manner of articulation (follow the rows of the IPA chart).
● Use recorded items and/or minimal pairs to illustrate contrasts
○ If your speaker pronounced something differently than your source, discuss it here. Why do you think this pronunciation is different from your source’s prediction (briefly)?
Vowels
● Vowel chart
● Descriptions of vowels based on reference source
● Use recorded items and/or minimal pairs to illustrate what you are describing
○ For example, “Klingon has two front vowels /ɪ/ and /e/, as the minimal pair in #16 and #17 illustrate.”
Allophones (could be its own section, or could be included inside the consonant and vowel sections)
● Description of allophones according to reference sources
○ Did your speaker produce them as expected (if not, explain)
● Any allophones you discovered and where they occurred
Suprasegmentals (tone, stress, etc.)
● Description of suprasegmentals according to reference sources
○ Did your speaker produce them as expected (if not, explain)
● Use recorded items and/or minimal pairs to illustrate what you are describing Bibliography/References/Works Cited
● I don’t care what type of citation formatting you use, but it must be consistent throughout the paper
● Use parenthetical citations when citing information from a source the first time, but don’t keep citing the same major source for every fact (we know where your facts came from)
● Alphabetize your sources in the bibliography/reference list/works cited page
General suggestions
Throughout the paper, you will refer to items on your wordlist that provide examples of the sounds you are describing. You must at least provide the number of the item, and you can also give the transcription, orthography and gloss if necessary (this will take up more space, though, so just use the number if you’re concerned about the page limit).
When referencing an item in the text, you will usually need to include additional information to help us know what item you are referring to. The only mandatory piece of information in the item number, but you may also include transcription and/or orthography. If you do, you must also include the English gloss.
item number:
#47
MANDATORY
transcription:
/xwex/ (and/or phonetic [χwex])
OPTIONAL
orthography
chwech
OPTIONAL
gloss
‘six’
MANDATORY IF TRANSCRIPTION
OR ORTHOGRAPHY IS INCLUDED
Example phrasing (references to items are shown in bold – you should not use bold in your paper):
“Jones (1921) described the Welsh dorsal fricative as uvular /χ/, but my consultant consistently produced it as the velar fricative /x/ (#31). Llinell only produced the uvular fricative in one
token, #47, as an allophone of /x/ before the labiovelar approximant.”
OR
“Jones (1921) described the Welsh dorsal fricative as uvular /χ/, but my consultant consistently produced it as the velar fricative /x/ (#31 /xi/ [xi] chi ‘you’). Llinell only produced the uvular fricative in one token, #47 /xwex/ [χwex] chwech ‘six’, as an allophone of /x/ before the labiovelar approximant.”
Example acoustic image (how to get a good image):
“My consultant was consistent in producing short vowels (#52) with shorter duration than long vowels (#53), as shown in Figure 1.”
Important tips/reminders for 103 term papers:
The goal of the paper
Your paper is (part of) an answer to the question “What makes this language sound the way it does?”, addressed to an IPA-educated and interested reader. This answer has two parts: the basic sounds and suprasegmentals of the language (phonemes), and how they are pronounced in their allowed combinations (allophones). The paper will focus more on the first part, but must also give something substantial about the second.
Only phonetics
Reference sources often have piles of interesting material on dialects, historical change, spelling, permitted syllable structures, and morphology. A little of this stuff is fine if you can relate it to the phonetic properties of your speaker, but remember that your goal is to write a phonetic description, under a rather tight length limit (if you go over say, 12 pages double spaced, we may not finish reading).
Only use IPA
Reference sources often use non-IPA symbols and terms. Don’t copy them: translate their symbols into IPA (use the Pullum & Ladusaw book on reserve at the library, or come see us for help with this if you like). Similarly, use only IPA terms, unless there is no obvious IPA equivalent.
HOWEVER, if we have discussed you using a system that is simpler to type (Pinyin tone marks, for example), you may use them as long as you provide the IPA equivalent symbols early on in your paper.
Proper citation
● Avoid inadvertent plagiarism by checking that every time you used information from a reference source, you credited the source, and either paraphrased the information, or put it in quote marks. It is not enough to assume that we will know you meant to credit the source.
● All the prose in your paper must either be written by you, or appear as direct quotes in quote marks. It is not appropriate to include long sections of a source verbatim, even if cited. In particular, you must not copy and paste paragraphs from the web.
● It is not appropriate for this paper to rely on any text generated from a tool like ChatGPT (or similar). Not only does relying on these tools prevent you from demonstrating what you have learned, it is also quite likely that the ‘information’ provided will be inaccurate. ‘AI’ tools are not intelligent, but you are, and so are your instructors.
● If all your information comes from a single source, it is sufficient to say so at the beginning of the paper, but then you must paraphrase in your own words. Do not cite the source for each word in your wordlist individually, but do make the sources of the words clear (maybe in a footnote or in the text).
● It is not enough to cite a source at the end of the paper; you must also indicate where you used that source in the text of the paper itself. See these links for understanding appropriate and inappropriate use of source material, including what counts as a proper paraphrase:
● Read the paper over to yourself OUT LOUD, using your judgment to detect stylistic problems to fix.
● Pretend you haven’t read the paper before, and watch out for things that will seem contradictory or confusing to the reader.
The complete project
The complete term project consists of: the paper (including the wordlist), the audio recording, and a corresponding TextGrid. The recording must be a .wav file. You must submit the paper and supplementary files to the assignment on BruinLearn.
How term projects are graded
1. The phonetic transcriptions are examined before reading the paper: do they reasonably represent what’s in the recording?
2. The paper is checked for including appropriate IPA phoneme charts.
3. The phonemic transcriptions are checked for using only the phonemes in the charts.
4. The wordlist is examined for clearly illustrating all the phonemes given in the charts, for providing a sampling of allophones of those phonemes, and for including at least one sentence.
5. The paper: does it clearly present what the source(s) said about the language? Does it explicitly and clearly relate the speaker’s pronunciations to the source material? Does the paper as a
whole give a good overall picture of how this speaker/this language sounds?
The term paper assignment includes a rubric showing the exact breakdown of points for the entire project.
How to capture an image from Praat
The simplest way to capture an image from Praat is to take a screenshot of the window, including the frequency and time axes. You may choose to include or exclude the waveform or spectrogram depending on what you want the viewer to focus on. Including a TextGrid in your screenshot can be useful, but you can also annotate your image in other ways (see below for suggestions).
Example image (bare minimum):
Figure 1: The spectrogram shows my consultant’s example sentence “SENTENCE” /sentence/ [sentence]. Observe the change in F1 and F2 of the diphthong shown in the middle of the image.
Example image (better than bare minimum):
Figure 1: The spectrogram shows my consultant’s example sentence “SENTENCE” /sentence/ [sentence]. The highlighted portion shows the change in F2 over the course of the diphthong [au].
Example image (better):
Figure 1: The spectrogram shows item #52 [ɡɹaund] ‘forest’. Formant tracking across the diphthong shows the convergence of F1 and F2 over time.
Example image (even better, because it includes target information in the TextGrid):
Figure 1: Vowel duration differences between lax and tense high front vowels were minor, indicating that length is not a major factor for my consultant in distinguishing these vowels.
Example image (not good):
No context, no axes, no indication of what I’m looking at, no transcription, no figure caption.
If it’s relevant for the point you’re trying to make, you may want to have Praat show format tracks (Formants > Show formants…) or pitch tracks (Pitch > Show pitch) or intensity (Intensity > Show intensity). Or, you can mark relevant characteristics of the spectrogram(s) yourself, annotating the images using an outside editing program. You could add arrows, highlight relevant portions of the sound, show where the boundaries between different sounds are, etc.
The most important things to remember are:
● your reader (me) should be able to understand what you want the image to show from looking at the image and caption alone
● keep image resolution reasonably high – if it’s too blurry or pixelated to read, I can’t grade your image
● images don’t count against your page limit, so feel free to make them large and easy to see
[1] Remember, if you had to bring in extra sources to fill in gaps, that’s okay, but only use them to fill in those gaps. Don’t waste time comparing everything that two different sources say, that is not the point of this project!
The purpose of this assignment is for students to assess the impact of the course on stress management in their lives and plan for the use of stress management techniques after the course conclusion. Course Survey). ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING IN A DOUBLE SPACED PAPER FORMAT: o Discuss the CURRENT use of stress management techniques in your life. Include the types of stress management you use and their effectiveness or lack of effectiveness (e.g., what techniques, if any, are used, how long have you been using them, are there any you have tried and did not like) o Discuss your OVERALL effectiveness of dealing with stress in your life o Discuss your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to dealing with stress in your life o React to the score on your Post-Course Survey. Does this score adequately assess your stress level? (See Post-Course Survey below in Word and PDF format) Must use results provided o Compare and Contrast your Pre-Course Survey & Post-Course Survey scores as well as any relevant responses from the Pre-Course Stress Assessment Must use results provided o Choose ONE MUSIC THERAPY: o After reading your chosen chapter above: MUSIC THERAPY o Define the technique (& support with reference – o Discuss potential mental, emotional, spiritual and/or physical benefits of the technique (& support with reference) o Discuss the topic’s or technique’s relationship to stress management (& support with reference) o Remember to support with references using APA format o What are your goals for stress management as this class comes to an end? o Create a plan for managing your stress for the next MONTH o Create a daily /weekly calendar and map out time for your stress management activity each day; be sure to create monitoring forms that are easy to use and include tracking your pre- & post-stress scores each day. o Use a variety of stress management techniques 2-3 and please include the new technique MUSIC and MASSAGE THERAPY
