Unemployment

Started: Sep 20, 2021 Submitted: Sep 22, 2021

Unemployment Raciel Vera

Essay The labor force is made of thousands of millions of people. At some point, those employed often find themselves unemployed for different

reasons. Unemployment is categorized into three major categories: structural unemployment, fictional unemployment, and cyclical unemployment.

These categories of unemployment are based on whether the cause of unemployment is seasonal factors, technological factors or factors in line

with business cycle. In Marcelle’s case, the times are difficult for the employer business. The output of the employer factory has significantly

reduced hence demanding reduced man power. As a result, Marcelle ends up being laid off. Therefore, Marcelle falls under the cyclical

unemployment because she lost her job when the economy was in a recession. During such economic crisis times, it is hard to find new employers

because most employers are reducing their labor force to balance their financial books. Considering that Marcelle was at no fault of her

unemployment, is actively looking for employment, she would qualify for unemployment benefits.

In Dominic’s case, he found himself unemployed after pulling out of the labor force. Dominic quit his job as a hair-dresser in Cincinnati

because he wanted to move to New York. Dominic’s case can be explained under fictional unemployment. Dominic ends up being unemployed

because of the normal turnovers in the labor force. As it stands, Dominic would not qualify for unemployment benefits. If he is to qualify for the

unemployment benefits, Dominic must convince the jury that he had genuine reason to move to New York and had to quit his job. In addition,

Dominic must be actively looking for new employment in New York.

Francine has been working has been working part-time at a resort but is now unemployed because the resort is closed for the summer

period. Francine is willing to apply for employment when the resort reopens but until then, she is not interested in working. Considering the she is

not willing to work during summer, she is pulling herself out of the work force. Her unemployment would be explained under fictional

unemployment. Nevertheless, Francine would not qualify for unemployment benefits because she is not willing to work during summer.

Lastly, Beauvoir was replaced by her employer because she lacked the necessary skills needed when the employer upgraded technology at

the work place. Therefore, Beauvoir’s unemployment can be explained under the structural unemployment because she was laid off because of the

skill mismatch between what she can offer and what the employer needs. Therefore, Beauvoir is not the cause of his unemployment and since he is

actively looking for work, he would qualify for the unemployment benefits.

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Revision Goal 1: Establish and maintain a controlling idea or bottom line throughout the document in order to achieve the purpose established in your writing prompt.

1. Re-read your document. Find the sentence you used as the controlling idea or bottom line of your document.

Example: Louis uses this sentence as his controlling idea: "Telecommuting has the potential to reshape our towns and cities."

2. Highlight all the areas in your document that stay on track with your controlling idea or bottom line.

Example: Louis finds several sentences that are on track with his controlling idea, including these:

"Employees often live in one city and work in another." "Now employees can live and work in the same place." "Urban planners can reduce costs and pollution by concentrating services."

3. Use key words from your controlling idea and transitional expressions to refer back to the sentence that defines the controlling idea or bottom line.

Example: Louis still has to make sure that the ideas in his document are connected, so he uses key words from his controlling idea as well as transitional expressions to connect his thoughts: "Right now cities and towns are built to allow people to work in one place and live in another. Telecommuting allows people to start to reverse that trend and live and work in the same place. Concentrating a population, as opposed to allowing urban sprawl, will allow urban planners to reshape cities and towns and concentrate services in small areas, reducing cost and pollution."

Revision Goal 2: Understand and connect with the intended audience.

1. Re-read your document. Highlight sentences that could better connect to the audience.

Example: Marcia reads her document and sees that although she shows empathy, she does not maintain a business-like tone. Since the purpose of this document is to communicate with business employees, her document partially misses the mark: "Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, but we also recognize there are challenges to quitting. As the management team of XYZ company evaluates the smoking policies and health care coverage, we can guarantee you that we will keep all our valued employees who remain smokers in mind."

2. Revise by paying attention to the audience's knowledge, needs, beliefs, and/or feelings.

Example: Marcia's revision maintains the business-like tone that suits her purpose: "The management team at XYZ company acknowledges how difficult it is to quit smoking, despite the health benefits of doing so. As we evaluate the smoking policy and health care coverage in regard to smoking cessation programs, we will consider the rights and responsibilities of all employees -- those who smoke, those who are trying to quit, and those who do not smoke."

Content

Revision Goal 1: Offer support for developing a concept or idea.

1. Read your document. Highlight one or two specific concepts or ideas that can be more sufficiently developed.

Example: Paola finds a sentence in her document that could be further developed: "The different communication styles of committee members can affect whose ideas are heard."

2. Add details such as explanations, facts, or arguments that can support each idea.

Example: Paola realizes that the communication styles of committee members is an area that could use further development. She chooses to focus on the role of the committee chair in smoothing out the differences between committee members who have different communication styles.

3. Now incorporate those supporting ideas into your document.

Example: Paola uses transitional expressions to help incorporate her supporting details into her document: "Successful committee chairs should observe the different communication styles of the committee members and adjust how they conduct meetings accordingly. For instance, if the other members of a committee are constantly talking over a member who speaks more slowly than others, the chair should step in and directly ask that member for his or her contribution."

Revision Goal 2: Show the use and understanding of business concepts and terms.

1. Read through your document and highlight at least two areas where you can include relevant business concepts or terms.

Example: One of the areas that Patrick finds is this sentence: "To run a restaurant, the owner should pay attention to how much stuff costs."

2. Create a list of three business concepts or business terms that could be included in your document in these areas.

Example: Patrick creates a list of business terms that fit this subject:

"Budget." "Labor. "Capital equipment."

3. Now incorporate these business concepts or terms into your document.

Example: Patrick incorporates the terms into his sentence: "To maintain an accurate budget, a restaurant owner should be aware of the costs of labor and capital equipment."

Organization

Revision Goal 1: Establish and maintain a controlling idea or bottom line throughout the document.

1. Re-read your document. Highlight sentences that could serve as the controlling idea or bottom line.

Example: Maria's document is organized well enough, so she quickly finds the sentence she wants to use as a controlling idea: "Learning to program the free and open source operating system (FOSS) has improved my studies, my job prospects, and my self-esteem."

2. Now that you have the controlling idea or bottom line of your document, make sure that the support for it forms the basis of the paragraphs in your document.

Example: Maria controlling idea can form the basis for three paragraphs. One would focus on how learning to program the FOSS improved her studies; the second would focus on how learning to program the FOSS improved her job prospects; the third would focus on how learning to program the FOSS improved her self-esteem.

3. For each paragraph, make sure you have at least three supporting details.

Example: Maria decides to start with how learning to program the FOSS improved her studies. Learning how to program the FOSS taught her to approach problems logically, to develop critical thinking skills, and to think more precisely.

4. Integrate key words from your controlling idea into your supporting details. In addition, use transitional expressions to connect your thoughts.

Example: Maria now has to take the ideas she brainstormed and turn them into a paragraph that will fit into her document. This is what she writes: "Learning how to program the FOSS taught me several skills that improved my grades. It taught me to approach problems logically, step- by-step. That approach especially improved my grades in algebra. It further developed my critical thinking skills, how to view problems in a program as puzzles to be solved. That approach also helped me in biology. In addition, it taught me to think more precisely, since even tiny errors in programs can result in wasted time. That precision has helped me in all of my classes."

Language

Revision Goal 1: Accentuate the positive and de-emphasize the negative in your document.

1. Read your document. Highlight all words and phrases that sound negative such as do not, no, stop, and not, as well as words that convey a negative, unpleasant, or disagreeable tone such as unfortunately, cannot, unable to, problem, difficult, error, loss, failure, or regret.

Example: Ilsa focuses on this sentence, which has a negative word and message sure to upset employees: "The management team has decided not to give Christmas bonuses this year."

2. Revise your document to accentuate the positive and de-emphasize the negative.

Example: Ilsa revises her sentences to focus on what the company will do. Revising the sentence the tone of her document: "The management team has decided that rather than lay anyone off in this difficult economy, they will instead institute job-saving measures, including foregoing Christmas bonuses this year."

Revision Goal 2: Use active voice.

1. Re-read your document. Highlight all sentences that use passive voice.

Example: Jada reads her document and finds a few sentences in the passive voice, including this one: "The savings were passed on to the consumer by the company."

2. Revise those sentences so that they are in the active voice.

Example: Jada moves the chemists to the front of the sentence: "The company passed the savings on to the consumer."

Revision Goal 3: "Omit needless words." -- Strunk and White.

1. Re-read your document. Highlight all wordy sentences.

Example: Marcos reads his document, and one of the sentences he highlights is this: "In my opinion, I believe that the decision was sound."

2. Revise all highlighted sentences.

Example: Marcos cuts the unnecessary phrases: "The decision was sound."

Revision Goal 4: Connect sentences with conjunctions that express the relationship between the sentences.

1. Re-read your document. Look for groups of sentences that seem disjointed.

Example: Susan highlights this passage in her document: "The committee decided to have an emergency hearing on the budget problem. They could not decide on a date."

2. Connect disjointed sentences.

Example: Susan realizes that the sentences, although grammatically correct, should be connected with a conjunction that expresses the contrasting relationship between them: "The committee decided to have an emergency hearing on the budget problem; however, they could not decide on date."

Revision Goal 5: Vary sentence openings.

1. Re-read your document. Highlight any passages that have several sentences that begin with the same word or phrase.

Example: Ken highlights this passage in his document: "The budget problem was serious. The accountants had discovered irregularities in payments to vendors. The vendors denied any wrong doing."

2. Revise sentences by changing one of the openings or combining the sentences.

Example: Ken tries combining two sentences, changing one opening, and changing the order of the sentences: "The accountants had discovered irregularities in payments to vendors although the vendors denied any wrong doing. This budget problem was serious."

Mechanics

Revision Goal 1: Follow these steps to improve your use of mechanics and conventions.

Use the MY Editor feedback to improve your understanding of mechanics and conventions.

1. Pay attention to the specific feedback that MY Editor gives you as you compose and edit your document. Begin by revising any spelling or punctuation errors you have committed. Then run MY Editor again to reexamine any remaining grammar errors that remain. 2. Write down the terms used in the feedback. 3. Study the terms that came up most often. 4. When you master your understanding of a particular term, move on to a new one.

Network to improve your understanding of mechanics and conventions.

1. Start or join a small, serious study group on the topic of mechanics and conventions. 2. Ask your instructor to recommend other resources to help you master mechanics and conventions.

When you rewrite your document, pay attention to your sentences to avoid errors in mechanics and conventions.

1. Place a period at the end of each of your complete thoughts/sentences. 2. Place the subjects of your sentences as close as you can to the beginning of your sentences.

When you rewrite your document, focus on correcting the errors that came up the most often in the original document.