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Instructions for EDD8020 Sample Paper Template Week Five
Paragraph Heading Corresponding Instructions
Corresponding Scoring Guide
Introduction Identify and briefly describe your target audience
(individual or group).
Dr. J's Note: This course is about organizational
learning and leadership in organizations. Choose an
organization you are familiar with to write a substantive,
doctoral-level analysis about the required topics
(personal mastery and mental models) as related to
organizational learning and systems thinking.
Personal Mastery and Mental
Models
Provide context to your audience by, in your own words,
writing a brief description of personal mastery and
mental models.
What is personal mastery?
What are mental models?
How do personal mastery and mental models make
possible personal and organizational learning?
How do the principles of personal mastery and mental
models interact to strengthen and reinforce one another?
How do personal mastery and mental models provide a
foundation for engaging in or strengthening systems
thinking?
Dr. J's Note: The idea of "well-chosen quotations from
the text" does not mean direct quotes. As doctoral
learners, you should learn to use paraphrased citations to
occasionally support the development of your written
critical analysis. What is valued is the development of
your written analysis, supported with sources. This
includes your insightful summary and interpretation.
Describes the concept of mental models. Description
includes very well chosen quotations from the text and
author’s own highly insightful summary and
interpretation.
Application of Models Identify and briefly define those elements of personal
mastery and mental models that directly pertain to your
chosen group or individual.
Dr. J's Note: Now you switch from thinking in broader
terms, to thinking specifically about what you wrote in
the last section, to your specific organization. This is why
you cannot and should not write about a person. You
must focus on an organization and relate this to
organizational learning.
The Scoring Guide states: Applies the concept of
mental models to address issues faced by an organization.
Dr. J's Note: As you apply the concepts, think of a
relevant issue to apply it to and then you can use the
same issue in the next section to write about
organizational improvement.
The Scoring Guide states: Specific and accurate
references to systems thinking are consistently used to
support the analysis. The impact of multiple internal and
external factors on the organization is thoroughly and
insightfully explained.
Dr. J's Note: What is valued is the development of your
written analysis, supported with sources. This includes
your insightful explanation.
Applies the concept of mental models to address issues
faced by an organization. Specific and accurate
references to systems thinking are consistently used to
support the analysis. The impact of multiple internal
and external factors on the organization is thoroughly
and insightfully explained.
Organizational Improvement Explain to your audience how personal mastery and
mental models can create opportunities for improvement
within the organization. Your explanation should be
responsive to the perspectives of your audience.
Provide specific support for your statements and
assertions as you draw connections between personal
mastery and mental models and your examples.
Your examples should include specific details that
promote greater understanding of the aspects of personal
mastery and mental models that you want to convey to
your audience.
Analyzes how mental models and personal mastery
interact with one another and systems thinking in a
detailed and compelling manner that includes specific
examples.
Dr. J's Note: Explain how employees who become
aware of these concepts could create opportunities for
improvement within your chosen organization. Be certain
to consider how you might explain these concepts. How
would you explain mental models to someone who has
never heard of it before?
Dr. J's Note: What is meant by specific support is not
making generalizations. This means avoiding the
"should" and "must" statements. Always back up your
statements with research and data. Make well-informed
statements, not generalized or highly subjective
statements.
Questions At the end of your paper include at least three questions
about personal mastery and mental models as they relate
to your audience that, when thoughtfully considered,
might promote continuous improvement and
organizational learning.
Dr. J's Note: Do not use bullet points or numbering. As
a doctoral learner, write with complete sentences and
paragraphs.
Creates a set of questions that will foster inquiry by a
target audience on organizational change. The questions
are highly specific to the situation of the target audience
and are highly likely to foster inquiry on organizational
change.
Conclusion A Conclusion needs to be substantive. As a doctoral
student the paper must demonstrate critical analysis.
When writing, ask yourself: did you fully and completely
address the initial thesis statement you developed in you
Introduction?
Important Note: The Conclusion is not a place to
include citations or new information. It is your thoughtful
wrap-up and evaluation of the thesis statement made at
the beginning of your paper.
References [Provide references to the material you consulted in
creating this project. Follow APA guidelines when
creating your references, including hanging indent form.
The following will help you get started as these sources
are properly formatted with double spacing and hanging
indentations.]
Additional Requirements:
In your writing, try to make specific connections between
the concept(s) in The Fifth Discipline and organizational
details. Avoid writing in vague generalizations that do
little to demonstrate a grasp of the concept or enlighten
your audience.
Dr. J's Note: What is meant by specific support is not
making generalizations. This means avoiding the
"should" and "must" statements. Always back up your
statements with research and data. Make well-informed
statements, not generalized or highly subjective
statements.
Exhibits strict and nearly flawless adherence to the
rules of grammar, usage, and mechanics.
Develops flow in text through paragraphing,
transitional words, and key phrases, with an evident
main idea in each paragraph.