Influence and Power

INFLUENCE AND POWER FEEDBACK 02-14-2022

1) Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling; shows understanding of audience and purpose. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!

Your writing is clear in several areas, Walter, but it is also confusing in too many places because of grammar, word choice, extra words, missing words, spelling and punctuation errors. Please edit and correct this deliverable, one extra time and slowly, before you resubmit it.

You can find some help with writing in our project resources. For example, on the main page of this competency, you will see several tiles in the middle of the page. In the second row down, you will see a tile labeled “Academic Support”. (From the homepage of your course --> Academic Support --> "Get Help with your Schoolwork" --> scroll down to "Written Feedback".) This link will take you to several types of academic support that many students find quite useful. For example, you can upload your document and receive feedback on your writing within 12 hours.

You should also consider using a free grammar checking service such as Grammarly. (You can get it free at https://app.grammarly.com/) . This helpful tool detects specific grammar, spelling, punctuation, word choice, and style mistakes in your writing and provides suggested revisions to fix those errors. Many of us use it and find it very helpful. Very.

2) Lists sources where needed using citation methods with no major errors. NOT YET MASTERED!!!!!

You wrote some of this using your own good ideas, Walter, and that was a nice approach. You also used some of the concepts from some good sources. That was correct too. But you did not follow appropriate attribution (citation style). There are two separate problems with your attribution that require your attention.

First: Proper attribution comes in two parts, in-text citations and a reference list. You are off to a good start with your reference list, but you have not cited all those sources in-text. Every source cited in the reference list needs to have been cited in-text. The sole purpose of the reference list is simply to show the complete citation of all sources cited in-text. Nothing more and nothing less. We call this alignment.

Second: We use the (Author, year) citation method. For author, we always use the last name of the author. We never use or spell out the first or middle names of authors.

You will find some excellent help with citations in our project resources. On the main page of this competency, you will see several tiles in the middle of the page. In the second row down, on the left, is a tile labeled Citation Help. This link will take you to our Citation Guide and our Citation Maker. These can be very useful to you. Very.